Posted on 08/24/2015 4:57:33 PM PDT by SJackson
Trump Kept Hitler’s Speeches by his Bed: Says Only Short Jews Can Count His Money, Not Blacks
Trump’s ex-wife says that he used to keep a copy of Hitler’s speeches by his bed. That information can go a long way to understand why Donald Trump has refused to address or even acknowledge the problem of racist sentiments within his followers.
From Vanity Fair:
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, reveals 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.”
Trump’s fascination with Hitler is just one form of his racist actions. In 1991, John O’Donnell, a former Trump associate, wrote an exposé entitled Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump. During O’Donnell’s tenure as president of the Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump told him that he hates “black guys counting my money!” He added that “the only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” To Trump, “laziness is a trait in blacks.” Several years later, Trump didn’t bother to deny it: “The stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”
To read more about Trump’s history of racism, click Staggering History of Trump’s Attacks on African-Americans: including DOJ suing him for Discrimination.
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I’m coming out of the closet!!! I’ve watched maybe dozens of History channel shows on Hitler!!!!
It MUST mean i love the guy even though he took several of my father’s best friends away and let doctors torture children.
I’m caught!!
How ridiculously low are they going to go?
Good enough to rise to first place in practically every poll since June and attract tens of thousands of people to hastily arranged meet-and-greets.
Based on this flavor of thinking, we can shoot all Socialists/communists/readers of Marx and Lenin. I’m good with that...
To #100. Yes, “Ring of Fire” was a great Johnny Cash song but remember, we are dealing with Robert Kennedy Jr. In his case, the “ring of fire” is one large flaming ahole.
Robert “Rhoids” to his butbuddies.
So what?
I’ve read Mein Kampf, too. Along with The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital....Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton, Kant, Kierkegaard, St Augustine, Aquinas...American history, Russian history, world history...
That’s ‘cause when I went to college, we were ‘spected to be curious and learn stuff. So we’d know what we were talking about.
That’s no longer allowed.
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan
Hitler was an altar boy. Mohammad was a poor and jealous student of Judaism: a dropout. Yeah, I read ‘em, including some of Hitler’s evil religious sermons. There’s no sign that Trump is like Hitler that I know of, although his campaign is weird.
Yep. I’ve read Qadafi, Mao, .......... Same thing. When I occupied college, the common idea was to expose one’s self to all points of view. Then, the stupid people took control (blatant Trump affectation).
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan
Wackjob site fur sure.
I can’t wait for Trump to comment.
LOL....they’re going there, really?
The media that won’t oppose Hussein giving nukes to Iran is going to associate Trump with Hitler?
The public, I predict, will not believe the media and Trump’s numbers will rise.
The BS from Team Valerie and her minions in the “journalism” industry has jumped the shark.
Can you answer me a question? In New Hampshire last week, Trump said he was, “very smart,” 23 times. Why would a very smart person have to say that in his speech so often?
That is true. He needs a speech writer and a little practice.
Interesting. If you read the comments, like me lots of Freepers have read Nazi literature. Communist literature too. Islamic literature. The religion forum covers Christianity and sometimes Judaism. One of the problems vis a vis some leftist sites may well be literacy.
Fascinating. I had not heard of this person before, but he obviously made an impact.
Thank you. It’s bookmarked for ordering at the library.
Doesn’t everybody?
Will be interesting to see how he responds. I think it will be instructive. A fraidy cat politician, or the big guy at the end of the bar who was insulted.
Sucks to be an intelligent Communist in a country that executes Communists. Not that I wanted him here.
No joke! I confess I’m a little surprised by the direction this attack is coming from. It’s a shame.
“Lots of stuff they both share.”
I’m not to sure about that. Hillary got rid of her moustache.
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