Donald Trump has now denied ever having read Adolf Hitler’s 1925 memoir-manifesto Mein Kampf as he faces a firestorm over his recent run of anti-immigrant comments, which have been likened to the Nazi leader’s infamous “blood and soil” rhetoric.

The former president returned to the campaign trail in Waterloo, Iowa, on Tuesday evening where he doubled down on his earlier inflammatory remarks.

“It’s crazy, what’s going on. They’re ruining our country. And it’s true. They are destroying the blood of our country. That’s what they’re doing. They are destroying our country,” he said.

“They don’t like it when I said that,” he added, before denying browsing Hitler’s book.

“And I never read Mein Kampf. They said, ‘Oh, Hitler said that’. In a much different way,” he said.

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      11 months ago

      Anything longer than 280 characters at a time, and he has to take a McDonalds break.

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      11 months ago

      Hey, even an edgelord moron will attempt a read at mein Kemp or whatever edgy book. Doesn’t mean he understood or read too deeply into it

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        It’s not a hard book to understand from what I’ve heard. It’s an edgelord screed of a manifesto written from a prison for attempting to overthrow a democratically elected government