Trump didn’t know his immigration rhetoric echoes Hitler?

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Associated Press reports that, “[f]acing criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to argue that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are `poisoning the blood of our country,’ [Donald]  Trump insisted he had no idea that [Adolf Hitler] once used similar words. The Nazi dictator spoke of impure Jewish blood `poisoning’ Aryan German blood to dehumanize Jews and justify the systemic murder of millions during the Holocaust.”

“I never knew that Hitler said it,” Trump told a conservative radio host, volunteering that he never read Hitler’s biographical manifesto, Mein Kampf.

“I know nothing about Hitler,” he insisted. “I have no idea what Hitler said other than (what) I’ve seen on the news.”

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