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Trump’s ‘poisoning the blood of the country’ slur alarms critics: ‘Parroted Hitler’

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After testing his anti-immigrant agenda and increasingly violent rhetoric in his social media, in interviews and on campaign rally stages, Donald Trump returned to New Hampshire on Saturday with a phrase that echoes the pages of Mein Kampf and white supremacist manifestos.

“They’re poisoning the blood of the country. That’s what they’ve done,” the former president said. “They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America. Not just the three or four countries we think about. But all over the world they’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia.”

After leaving New Hampshire, he turned to his Truth Social account with an all-caps post to declare “illegal immigration

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