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Vanity Fair: Trump Kept a Volume of Hitler's Speeches By His Bedside (GOPe desperation tatics)
The Weekly Standard ^ | 11:37 AM, MAR 01, 2016 | By MARK HEMINGWAY

Posted on 03/01/2016 11:38:27 AM PST by drewh

Of all the crazy revelations about Donald Trump, arguably the one that seems most alarming, is that he has a fondness for reading Hitler speeches. Now the charge was made by his first wife Ivana relating to his divorce proceedings, but when asked about it, Trump's denial was less than reassuring:

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." Now lots of ordinary people read Hitler for valid reasons, such as innocent historical fascination. But it seems particularly strange in light of Trump's bizarre refusal to denounce David Duke, even as he apparently lies about knowing about the former KKK grand wizard.

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nice try Billy Kristol WAY too late....
1 posted on 03/01/2016 11:38:27 AM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

So, a knowledge of history is now grounds for excluding a candidate?


2 posted on 03/01/2016 11:40:15 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: drewh

Yeah, so?

I have a copy of Mein Kampf. If you want to know about political manipulation, you read what a master manipulator has to say. If you want to learn about guerrilla war, you read Mao and General Giap.


3 posted on 03/01/2016 11:41:22 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: drewh

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4 posted on 03/01/2016 11:41:44 AM PST by Donglalinger
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To: drewh

Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, is Jewish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanka_Trump#Religion_and_spirituality

In July 2009, after studying with Rabbi Elie Weinstock from the Modern Orthodox Ramaz School, Trump had an Orthodox conversion to Judaism and took the name Yael. She attests to keeping a kosher diet and observing the Jewish Sabbath, saying in 2015: “We’re pretty observant... It’s been such a great life decision for me... I really find that with Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity. From Friday to Saturday we don’t do anything but hang out with one another. We don’t make phone calls.”


5 posted on 03/01/2016 11:41:49 AM PST by VitacoreVision
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To: drewh

I’ve noticed a whole flock of people, Kristol, Kruthammer, Goldberg, Goldstein, etc., all trying out for the role of Joseph Goebbels, with their foaming and frothing big lie routines.


6 posted on 03/01/2016 11:43:04 AM PST by euram
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To: drewh

“All Depends on Me”


7 posted on 03/01/2016 11:43:49 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: drewh

That’s right, anyone critical of Trump is Establishment!


8 posted on 03/01/2016 11:44:18 AM PST by Dead Dog (.)
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To: drewh

Buy oh boy, the GOPe is not only ratifying the common liberal chant that it’s “the party of stupid” but it’s going for oak clusters and extra merit badges here.

Quite frankly; only a Machiavellian bunch of greedy pigs would abase themselves so blatantly to keep their positions at the trough. Hopefully we retreat from my full-on disgust threshold after S-Tuesday.


9 posted on 03/01/2016 11:44:26 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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Geesh. If you haven't read Mein Kampf you won't understand WWII. I have listened to records of Panzer marches before and I have yet actually to invade Poland personally. This is silly.
10 posted on 03/01/2016 11:45:12 AM PST by Billthedrill
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But didn't Obama give recordings of HIS speeches to Queen Elizabeth?

I think that's worse!

11 posted on 03/01/2016 11:46:50 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: Arm_Bears
So, a knowledge of history is now grounds for excluding a candidate?

Trump? Knowledge of history? Surely you jest.

12 posted on 03/01/2016 11:47:50 AM PST by sphinx
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That’s right, anyone critical of Trump is Establishment!

Actually, yes. You don't get out much, do you? Is there any aspect of what now passes for the establishment that you think is operating well, or even properly? I'm all ears.

13 posted on 03/01/2016 11:47:51 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: drewh

Hillary reads “Eva Braun’s Beauty Secrets.”


14 posted on 03/01/2016 11:47:59 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: drewh

Bonfire of the inanities.


15 posted on 03/01/2016 11:48:30 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Interesting times. Someday, around the cave campfire, knapping flints, we'll all laugh about this.)
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To: drewh

Ivanka’s husband is Jewish and so Trump has Jewish grandkids too. He’s such a Hitler, ehehehhe. Heil! (’


16 posted on 03/01/2016 11:48:53 AM PST by tflabo (res about them)
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To: drewh

CBS is reporting that Trump burns bibles......hits his children.


17 posted on 03/01/2016 11:49:23 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: drewh

Are we really supposed to sit here and believe Trump is a Nazi, White Supremacist? This sort of nonsense is old and tired.

Look folks, unlike most politicians, who most americans have never heard of Trump has been in the public eye for 30+ years or so, he’s come into their living room weekly for the last 10.. while you can throw some stupid thing out against someone folks don’t know and repeated it enough to stick because they don’t know the person, you can’t do it to someone who the public already has an opinion of, and what’s more isn’t going to back down when you toss the grenade but fight back.

This gotcha nonsense has failed every time with Trump and will keep failing... if you don’t have an legitimate HEAD SHOT that is undeniably going to kill Trump, you have nothing.


18 posted on 03/01/2016 11:49:37 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: drewh

I’m sure the MSM will be reporting Trump has been hiding Josef Menegele under his bed all this time too.


19 posted on 03/01/2016 11:50:09 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: drewh

Created my tagline just for threads like this.


20 posted on 03/01/2016 11:50:13 AM PST by McGruff (It's clear Trump Derangement Syndrome has no limits.)
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