The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media
“When Donald Trump began saying that immigrants poison the blood of our country in September, he could have argued plausibly that he didn’t know the construct was one of Adolph Hitler’s infamous talking points.
Today, that argument isn’t going to fly, thanks to the thorough airing that his use of the phrase received — including here — in a way Trump couldn’t have missed. Yet he is saying it again.
Over the weekend, Trump returned to this rhetoric about undocumented immigrants.
“ ‘They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done,’ he said in New Hampshire . ‘They poison — mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America. Not just the three or four countries that we think about. But all over the world they’re coming into our country — from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”
“Trump’s comments are particularly notable in that he explicitly links the poisoning of our blood to predominantly non-White areas of the world. Back in September, Trump linked the term blood-poisoning to how ‘people are coming in with disease.’
“His new comments are merely the latest in a long compendium of ugly and racist comments about immigrants, Muslims and racial minorities. Here’s a timeline:
In his 2016 campaign launch, Trump immediately invoked the idea that a substantial number of undocumented immigrants were criminals, drug traffickers and even rapists.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” Trump said, adding: “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” – Poisoning the Blood: Trump’s Ugliest Moments on Immigrants, Aaron Blake, The Washington Post, 12/18/23 ”[Link]
Fact Check of Above Quote: The Establishment media have pitched a hissy fit over a phrase uttered by former President Trump. As usual when he says anything about immigration, they twist his words to portray him as badly as possible. In September, Trump stated during an interview that illegal aliens were “poisoning the blood of our country.” The context was that were bringing in diseases and germs which, he suggested, could possibly taint our blood. Just recently, during a speech in New Hampshire he used the phrase again, saying that illegal aliens from “mental institutions and prisons” poison our blood. The link between those places and blood is a lot more strained than the link in the first statement—which also is strained.
Trump seems to equate national wellbeing with healthy blood. The metaphor is awkward, but his lapse in rhetoric is not the moral lapse that his critics claim. They allege that he is copying the words of Adolph Hitler, and unsubtly suggest that Trump sympathizes with Nazism. Hitler in his book Mein Kampf expressed fear that races he deemed inferior would contaminate the blood of Germany.
Trump in his “blood” comments was not referencing race, but the very real problems that illegal aliens bringing to our country. If Trump were a Nazi, it’s odd that he would have made his Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner one of his senior advisors when he was president. Odd too was a “Nazi” staunchly supporting the state of Israel. No, Trump isn’t a follower of Hitler, and neither are patriots who simply want to protect the sovereignty and national identity of their countries. Nevertheless, the media commonly smear those patriots with the Nazi label.
The article above also repeats the tiresome charge that Trump called illegal aliens “rapists.” The author is honest enough, however, to provide Trump’s full quote and not give the false impression, as many in the media do, that he called all of them sexual offenders. In that quote, the former president concedes that some of the border crossers are “good people.” But his claim that some are rapists is not outrageous. According to one estimate, as many as 60 percent of the women who cross the border suffer sexual assault. Often the males who cross with them are the perpetrators.
Trump is correct that our virtually open border makes us vulnerable to a large and steady stream of undesirable people. Legal immigration aims to select people who will benefit our society in some way. Illegal immigration defeats this purpose. This is a very simple and reasonable principle. And believing it doesn’t make one a “Nazi.”