Following the template provided by the Associated Press, legacy media from coast to coast made the false claim that former President Trump drew on words similar to Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” as he rebuked the Biden Administration over the flow of migrants. Chances are few people know what the former President said other than what they may have heard as a soundbite or in a newspaper that does no more than regurgitate what the AP writes.
First published in 1923, there are no references to the 1938 Nuremberg Blood Laws in Mein Kampf. There is only one reason why anyone would go directly to ‘blood libel,’ and that would be to discredit what the speech was really about.
“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons,” Trump said. “We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have.”
It remains critical to clarify that the statement is not from Mein Kampf or any known writings of Adolf Hitler. Trump is saying what the Biden Administration is doing is “poisoning” the U.S. The misinterpretation underscores the importance of accurate reporting and the potential impact of misattributions on public perception.
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