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FORMER PRESIDENT

TRUMP SAYS HE DIDN’T KNOW HIS IMMIGRATION RHETORIC ECHOES HITLER. THAT’S PART OF
A BROADER PATTERN

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NEW YORK — Donald Trump has centered his unlikely rise from reality television
star to onetime — and potentially future — president on the idea that he’s wiser
than Washington’s bumbling political class, once going so far as to label
himself a “very stable genius.”

But when it comes to one of history’s darkest moments, Trump is professing
ignorance.

Facing criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to
argue that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood of
our country,” Trump insisted he had no idea that one of the world’s most reviled
and infamous figures once used similar words. The Nazi dictator spoke of impure
Jewish blood “poisoning” Aryan German blood to dehumanize Jews and justify the
systemic murder of millions during the Holocaust.

Former President Donald Trump listens to reporters March 25 while in flight on
his plane after a campaign rally in Waco, Texas. Trump is defending himself
against criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler.

Evan Vucci, Associated Press

“I never knew that Hitler said it,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh
Hewitt on Friday, volunteering once again that he never read Hitler’s
biographical manifesto, “Mein Kampf.”

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“I know nothing about Hitler,” he insisted. “I have no idea what Hitler said
other than (what) I’ve seen on the news. And that’s a very, entirely different
thing than what I’m saying.”

Trump’s assertion that he knows so little about one of the 20th century’s most
documented figures is notable for someone seeking the presidency, a role steeped
in and shaped by history. But claiming ignorance, particularly when it comes to
people who espouse racist or antisemitic rhetoric, is a tactic Trump has
repeatedly deployed when aiming to distance himself from uncomfortable
storylines.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Dec. 16 in Durham, N.H.
Trump insists he had no idea his words on immigrants echoed Hitler’s, a tactic
he has repeatedly deployed.

Reba Saldanha, Associated Press

After he was endorsed by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke during his
winning 2016 campaign, Trump insisted he had no knowledge of the white
supremacist who had run for office numerous times and is described by the
Anti-Defamation League as “perhaps America’s most well-known racist and
anti-Semite.”

“Just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke, OK?" he told
CNN’s Jake Tapper in February 2016. “I don’t know anything about what you’re
even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists.”

Asked if he would condemn the white supremacists supporting him, Trump said he
would “have to look at the group. I mean, I don’t know what group you’re talking
about.” He continued to repeat that assertion even after Tapper said he was
referring to the KKK.

Trump has also pleaded ignorance in other cases. As he ran for reelection in
2020, Trump said he didn’t know much about QAnon, the convoluted conspiracy that
alleges Democrats are involved in a satanic pedophilia ring and casts Trump as
the nation’s savior — even as he retweeted accounts promoting the conspiracy.

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“I know nothing about it,” he said during an NBC town hall. Nonetheless, he
refused to rule it out as false. “I don’t know that and neither do you,” he
said.

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TRUMP DEFENDS CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS ABOUT IMMIGRANTS ‘POISONING THE BLOOD’ OF
AMERICA AT IOWA RALLY

* HANNAH FINGERHUT and ALI SWENSON Associated Press

It was the same when Trump was asked to condemn the Proud Boys militia group,
which was key in organizing the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Enrique Tarrio and other members of the far-right extremist group have been
found guilty of seditious conspiracy and other crimes for their part in the
attack, which was part of a desperate bid to keep Trump in power after he lost
the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

“I don’t know who the Proud Boys are," Trump told reporters after instructing
the group, during a presidential debate, to “Stand back and stand by."

“I mean, you'll have to give me a definition ’cause I don’t really know who they
are,” Trump said of the group, which was drawing headlines at the time.

Trump has also suggested he was unaware of some of the most consequential
periods of American history. At a recent rally in Reno, Nevada, Trump said he
had to ask Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to define the post-Civil War era known as
Reconstruction as he boasted about his growing popularity with Hispanic voters
and Republican wins along the border.

“They say the first time since Reconstruction. You know what Reconstruction
means? That means the Civil War," Trump told the audience. “I said, ‘Give me a
definition, governor, of Reconstruction. You said I’m the first one to win all
of these towns since Reconstruction.' He said, ‘Well, Reconstruction: since the
Civil War.’ That’s a long time ago. That’s pretty good.”

Knowing basic American history is important for a president, said Princeton
University professor Julian Zelizer, who studies political history.

In “Mein Kampf,” Hitler wrote that, “All great cultures of the past perished
only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.”

Trump told Hewitt his message was “very different” and he had “zero” racist
intent.

“I'm not a student of Hitler. I never read his works," he said. “They say that
he said something about blood. He didn’t say it the way I said it, either, by
the way. It’s a very different kind of a statement. What I’m saying when I talk
about people coming into our country is they are destroying our country.”

Still, he repeated “poisoning” references eight times.

Among those references: “They are poisoning our country. They are poisoning the
blood of our country. They’re coming from all over the world. They’re coming
from prisons. They’re coming from mental institutions and insane asylums.
They’re terrorists. Absolutely that’s poisoning our country. That’s poisoning
the blood of our country. And that’s what’s happening."

PEOPLE IN THESE 20 INDUSTRIES DONATED THE MOST MONEY TO DONALD TRUMP

Former President Donald Trump announced shortly after the midterm elections in
November 2022 that he would seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
But this time, he faces new obstacles, among them investigations into his
finances and into his attempts to remain in office despite losing the
presidency.

The GOP's poor outcome in the midterms presented another hurdle, with the
supposed "red wave" never materializing, leading some political pundits to point
the finger at Trump's possibly waning influence with conservatives.

Just as troubling for Trump's campaign as the erosion of influence is the loss
of wealthy donors, many of whom are turning elsewhere. The network of
conservative billionaire Charles Koch will back a Republican other than Trump,
CNN reported. Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman and CEO of private equity firm
Blackstone, told Axios he is looking for a candidate from the GOP's "new
generation." Hedge-fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin is supporting Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis, a top potential GOP candidate who has still not officially
announced his candidacy, and longtime Trump ally Ronald Lauder has said he will
not help finance Trump's run this time, according to CNBC.

As these deep-pocketed names look for other prospects, it's worth taking a look
at the groups and industries that donated most heavily to Trump during the 2020
election cycle.

Stacker compiled data from OpenSecrets to find the 20 industries that
contributed the most to Trump's 2020 campaign committee, as well as any super
PACs or hybrid PACs working on his behalf. The "Republican or conservative"
industry refers to other politicos' PACs that have funneled money to the Trump
Organization.

Some groups on this list may surprise you—the group that by far made the most in
contributions and has increasingly become a significant force across the
political landscape would seem to be the least likely, the most frugal, and the
most suspicious. Others may seem obvious: With Trump repeatedly promising to
repeal the Affordable Care Act and proposing spending reductions for Medicaid
and Medicare, the appearance of the health services industry and HMOs might read
as a foregone conclusion, as might the casino industry where Trump has long
maintained allies, even if his own track record in this industry is less than
stellar.

Click through the slides to find out which other groups were among Trump's
biggest backers.

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#20. CROP PRODUCTION AND BASIC PROCESSING

- Total donated in 2020: $6,679,052

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#19. PHARMACEUTICALS/HEALTH PRODUCTS

- Total donated in 2020: $6,960,879

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#18. HOSPITALS/NURSING HOMES

- Total donated in 2020: $7,290,381

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#17. LAWYERS/LAW FIRMS

- Total donated in 2020: $8,035,354

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#16. EDUCATION

- Total donated in 2020: $8,581,024

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#15. GENERAL CONTRACTORS

- Total donated in 2020: $8,612,861

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#14. CIVIL SERVANTS/PUBLIC OFFICIALS

- Total donated in 2020: $9,256,185

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#13. MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING

- Total donated in 2020: $9,800,740

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#12. TV/MOVIES/MUSIC

- Total donated in 2020: $12,146,188

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#11. HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

- Total donated in 2020: $14,320,651

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