Former President Donald Trump recently doubled down his comments that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” and this time added that they could be carrying diseases via Mediaite.
Speaking in Iowa at a campaign rally on Tuesday, Trump addressed criticism he received over the speech he made in New Hampshire on Saturday.
“You know, when they let– I think the real number’s like 15, 16 million people into our country, when they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” he said. “That’s what they’ve done.”
Some have noted the similarity between those remarks and a passage in Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
“All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning,” Hitler wrote.
In doubling down on his comments, Trump claimed he never read the book:
“It’s crazy what’s going on. They’re ruining our country. And it’s true. They’re destroying the blood of our country. That’s what they’re doing. They’re destroying our country.
They don’t like it when I said that, and I never read Mein Kampf. They said, “Oh, Hitler said that” – in a much different way. Now they’re coming from all over the world. People all over the world. We have no idea. They could be healthy, they could be very unhealthy. They could bring in disease that’s gonna catch on in our country. But they do bring in crime. But they have them coming from all over the world.”
