For the second time in a week, former President Donald Trump told crowds of supporters that immigrants coming to the U.S. illegally were damaging the “blood” of the country, echoing words used by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
In Hitler’s manifesto “Mein Kampf,” the dictator wrote that, “All great cultures of the past perished only because the original creative race died out from blood poisoning.”
He told voters at a rally on Saturday in Durham, New Hampshire that illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. were “poisoning the blood of the country,” prompting swift backlash from the White House and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill.
Trump first said illegal immigrants are “poisoning the blood of the country” in an interview with right-leaning news website the National Pulse.