The Biden campaign slammed former President Donald Trump for echoing Nazi sentiments with his repeated statements on Saturday night that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the United States.

“Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” Biden-Harris 2024 campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement on Saturday.

The Republican frontrunner most recently repeated the anti-immigrant remarks at a New Hampshire rally and in a Truth Social post Saturday night. But Trump has used this language nearly verbatim at least as early as September.

“It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, people are coming in with disease,” he said in a September interview with far-right political propagandist Raheem Kassam.

In his “Mein Kampf” manifesto, Hitler used similar rhetoric about blood poisoning, declaring it an existential threat to the Aryan race.

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    Yes, but his people do not care.

    They are fine with that.

    They want a new Hitler. A lot of them don’t even really know enough about History to know why Hitler has been vilified.

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      That’s the scary thing about all the people who lived through WWII and the first wave of fascism dying off, I fear many have forgotten the consequences of supporting such ideologies.

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        10 months ago

        By design. The educational system has been manipulated over decades to downplay Nazi atrocities and make it a simple Us vs. Them issue where we just didn’t see eye-to-eye.

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          I feel like we learn tons about the Holocaust and how bad it was, but little on how Hitler and the Nazis rose to power. That second part is crucial to preventing a future Holocaust and wave of Fascism, but most Americans have no knowledge of that.

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      The point isn’t to scare away Trump voters, it’s to motivate his own base. We DO care.