Republicans tried to make excuses for Donald Trump after he used the fascist term "vermin" and said that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country." But now, Republican voters are all in on Trump invoking Hitler's incendiary and dangerous words.
A whopping forty-two percent of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers said that Trump's recent remarks about immigrants "poisoning the blood" of the country makes them more likely to support him, according to a new poll by the Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom.
The Hill reports:
Twenty-eight percent of likely Iowa GOP caucusgoers said Trump's "poisoning the blood" comments made them less likely to support him in the caucuses. Twenty-nine percent said the remark "[d]oes not matter" when it comes to their support.
The poll, conducted between Dec. 2 and 7, features responses from 502 likely Republican Iowa caucusgoers and has a maximum margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
The former President has pushed back against the comparisons to Hitler, who wrote in "Mein Kampf" that German blood was being poisoned by Jews. At a rally in Iowa on Tuesday, Trump mirrored his recent "poisoning the blood" comments and tried to distance himself from Hitler all within a period of a few sentences.
Not exactly. Trump then used the exact phrase again to double down on his appalling remarks.
"They're destroying the blood of our country. That's what they're doing. They're destroying our country. They don't like it when I said that — and I never read 'Mein Kampf,'" Trump said.
"They could be healthy, they could be very unhealthy, they could bring in disease that's going to catch on in our country, but they do bring in crime, but they have them coming from all over the world," Trump added. "And they're destroying the blood of our country. They're destroying the fabric of our country."
Is he talking about Melania or her parents, perhaps? Oh wait, those aren't the sort of immigrants Trump was demeaning. How about the immigrants that he hires to work at his golf clubs? They're OK, too? Trump does this on purpose to pit people in this country against each other. That's why he was the worst President of my lifetime. He only represented his lint-licking, immigrant-hating base. The rest of us were "vermin" to him.
