It seems to me that if you're trying to defend Trump using Hitler-like words, almost word-for-word from his speeches, you'd try to come up with something better than it's just a coincidence and that Trump has probably never read Mein Kampf.
Source: Mediaite
Marc Short defended Donald Trump from comparisons to Adolf Hitler on the basis that it’s “unlikely” the former president has ever read the Nazi autocrat’s infamous manifesto.
The former chief of staff to then-Vice President Mike Pence was on a Fox News Sunday panel for a discussion on Trump’s glaringly anti-immigrant remarks during his New Hampshire campaign rally.
As Shannon Bream pointed out, Trump drew widespread criticism and renewed comparisons to Hitler’s Mein Kampf after raving that immigrants from South America, Africa, and Asia are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
A bit of blather by Charlie Hurt who shrugged it off as just Trump "firing up" the base, while Francesca Chambers played the dutiful Fox News liberal saying that Trump's comments would only help Biden. Then Marc Short, who worked in the Trump White House, came out with this foolishness:
When Bream asked Short if Trump’s comments were an “unforced error or on purpose,” he answered, “I think it’s highly unlikely that Donald Trump has ever read Mein Kampf.” He then argued that Trump’s critics are getting distracted by his inflammatory language again while he remains focused on issues where he does well with voters.
“He has a decisive lead on border security over Joe Biden, just like he does on the economy, just like he does on international affairs,” Short said. “So, yeah. He says something out loud and outlandish, and they attack what he said rhetorically, but you come back to the root of the issue, and it’s where a lot of the American people agree with him.”
Uh huh. Sure buddy. As Mediaite noted, back in 1990 Trump's former wife and now fertilizer for his Bedminster golf course said this:
Vanity Fair profiled the former president’s deceased former wife, Ivana Trump, and the article said that Ms. Trump told her lawyer about a book of Hitler’s collected speeches which he kept in a cabinet near his bed.
And indeed, Trump so often uses Hitler's language word-for-word that a translation of Hitler's speeches has Trump on the cover, giving historical context and similarities in their rhetoric. Often, it's just plagiarized from Adolf himself.
So, in other words, Marc Short's claim is dubious at best, and probably just more knowing horseshit. Trump probably has it all memorized, he's read it so often.
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. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
Compulsive liar says what?
