Donald Trump has made his first UFC 296 remarks after his boy Colby Covington lost to Leon Edwards.
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During a panel discussion on Fox News Sunday, Marc Short, the former chief of staff to then-Vice President Mike Pence, defended Donald Trump from comparisons to Adolf Hitler, particularly regarding Trump’s controversial comments on immigration during a New Hampshire campaign rally. Trump’s remarks drew criticism and renewed comparisons to Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
As panelists discussed the outrage over Trump’s remarks, Charlie Hurt downplayed it as Trump using language to provoke a reaction, while Francesca Chambers noted that such comments provide the Biden campaign with ammunition against Trump.
When asked if Trump’s comments were an “unforced error or on purpose,” Short suggested it was unlikely that Trump had ever read Mein Kampf. Short argued that Trump’s critics were getting distracted by inflammatory language, while Trump remained focused on issues where he resonated well with voters, such as border security.
Short stated, “He says something out loud and outlandish, and they attack what he said rhetorically, but you come back to the root of the issue, and it’s where a lot of the American people agree with him.”
It’s worth noting that a 1990 Vanity Fair profile of Ivana Trump, Donald Trump’s ex-wife, mentioned that she told her lawyer about a book of Hitler’s collected speeches kept by her husband in a cabinet near his bed.
