Donald Trump's Past Comments About 'Mein Kampf' Resurface

Donald Trump's past comments about Mein Kampf have resurfaced after he referenced the book penned by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in a speech in Iowa last night.

Trump has earned criticism for his speech in the Hawkeye State after he said immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our county" during a rally in New Hampshire over the weekend. He doubled down on the comments yesterday.

He said: "It's crazy what's going on… They are destroying the blood of our country, that's what they are doing. They are destroying our country.

"They don't like it when I said that and I never read Mein Kampf. They say 'Oh, Hitler said that' in a much different way."

The Biden-Harris campaign accused Trump of "parroting Hitler" in his speeches, while a resurfaced interview reveals the moment the former president talked about being given Mein Kampf by a friend.

Maria Brenner wrote a 1990 Vanity Fair article, which included an interview with Trump's first wife Ivana Trump, and referred to Trump keeping a book by Hitler by his bed.

The article was published amid the couple's divorce following his affair with Marla Maples. Ivana died on July 14, 2022.

The article said: "Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.

"Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade."

Referring to this, Trump is quoted as saying: "It was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew."

In response, Davis is quoted as saying he did give his friend a book about Hitler, but that it was actually My New Order A Collection of Speeches not Mein Kampf.

"I thought he would find it interesting," Davis said. "I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish."

In the article, Trump is quoted as saying: "If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them."

The article also said a Trump Organization employee would click his heels and make a mock Nazi salute at Trump saying "Heil Hitler."

Newsweek has approached Trump's campaign team via email for comment.

In Iowa, Trump said—without providing evidence—that immigrants are coming to the U.S. from mental asylums and may carry disease.

"They are coming from all over the world, people we have no idea they could be healthy they could be very unhealthy, they could bring in disease that is going to catch on in our country, but they do bring in crime," he said.

"They have them coming from all over the world and they are destroying the blood of our country, they are destroying the fabric of our country," Trump said. "We are going to have to get them out, we are going to have to get mass numbers of these—especially the criminals—they re coming from jails, they are coming from mental institutions they say 'please don't say the words 'insane asylum' but I have to say they are emptying out the insane asylums from all over the world."