Former Pence Advisor Defends Trump’s ‘Poisoning America’ Speech: ‘Highly Unlikely’ Trump Has Read Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf
Marc Short defended Donald Trump from comparisons to Adolf Hitler on the basis that it’s “unlikely” the former president has ever read the Nazi autocrat’s infamous manifesto.
The former chief of staff to then-Vice President Mike Pence was on a Fox News Sunday panel for a discussion on Trump’s glaringly anti-immigrant remarks during his New Hampshire campaign rally.
As Shannon Bream pointed out, Trump drew widespread criticism and renewed comparisons to Hitler’s Mein Kampf after raving that immigrants from South America, Africa, and Asia are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
Charlie Hurt shrugged off the outrage as he explained, “[Trump] always likes using language that gets people fired up,” and that the ex-president was speaking to the issue of illegal immigration. Francesca Chambers retorted by pointing out that between this and Trump saying he would be a dictator on “day one,” it gives the Biden campaign much to use against him.
When Bream asked Short if Trump’s comments were an “unforced error or on purpose,” he answered, “I think it’s highly unlikely that Donald Trump has ever read Mein Kampf.” He then argued that Trump’s critics are getting distracted by his inflammatory language again while he remains focused on issues where he does well with voters.
“He has a decisive lead on border security over Joe Biden, just like he does on the economy, just like he does on international affairs,” Short said. “So, yeah. 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 may be worth noting that back in 1990, Vanity Fair profiled the former president’s deceased ex-wife, Ivana Trump, and the article said that Ms. Trump told her lawyer about a book of Hitler’s collected speeches which her husband kept in a cabinet near his bed.
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