Ivana Once Revealed Donald Trump Kept Book Of Hitler's Speeches By His Bedside: Report
Donald Trump's late ex-wife, Ivana Trump, once claimed that the former president allegedly kept a book of Adolf Hitler's speeches by his bedside.
The claim came from a September 1990 Vanity Fair interview, which recently resurfaced after Trump was accused of parroting the Nazi leader following his comment that undocumented immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country" last month.
According to the piece by Marie Brenner, Ivana, who was married to Trump from 1977 to 1990, alleged to her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her then-husband occasionally read Hitler's collected speeches, "My New Order," which he kept in a cabinet near his bed.
When questioned about the allegation, Trump reportedly told Brenner, "It was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of 'Mein Kampf,' and he's a Jew."
Marty Davis clarified to Brenner that he did give Trump a book about Hitler, but it was "My New Order" and not "Mein Kampf."
"I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish," Davis reportedly added.
Trump reportedly later added in the interview, "If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them."
Last month, Trump made disturbing anti-immigrant comments during a New Hampshire rally.
"They're poisoning the blood of our country," the frontrunner of the 2024 Republican presidential race told the crowd, as seen in a video published by Politico. "That's what they've done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They're coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world."
Trump then repeated his comments during an event in Waterloo, Iowa, a few days later.
"They're destroying the blood of our country. That's what they're doing -- they're destroying our country," he said in his speech.
This rhetoric, reminiscent of language used by Hitler in his manifesto "Mein Kampf," ignited criticism from various quarters.
President Joe Biden likened Trump's language to that used in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
"He has called those who oppose him 'vermin' and again this weekend he talked about the blood of our country being poisoned," Biden told reporters last month, according to Politico.
Vice President Kamala Harris also compared Trump's remarks to Hitler's.
Members of the Republican party also slammed Trump's comments, with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie describing them as "disgusting" on CNN's "State of the Union."
However, Trump dismissed the Hitler comparisons during his December rally in Iowa, claiming that the Nazi leader's rhetoric was said "in a much different way."
Trump insisted, "I never read 'Mein Kampf.' They said Hitler said that -- in a much different way."
