After coming under fire for saying immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”, Donald Trump has rejected comparisons to Adolf Hitler, insisting he has “never read” the Nazi dictator’s book Mein Kampf .

But “it’s true that they’re destroying the blood of our country, that’s what they’re doing, they’re destroying our country,” insisted the Republican former president, a candidate for re-election in 2024, during a campaign event last Tuesday in Iowa.

Donald Trump made similar remarks about immigrants at the weekend, sparking outrage, with opponents comparing what he said to lines from Adolf Hitler in his anti-Semitic book “My Struggle”.

“They don’t like it when I say this,” the real estate mogul told supporters. “They say ‘Hitler said that,’ but in a very different way,” he continued.

And he assured: “I never read ‘O Agon Mu'”.

A group linked to Democratic President Joe Biden’s campaign uploaded to X (formerly Twitter) a montage that quotes three statements by Donald Trump that directly refer to phrases from the Nazi dictator.

“This is no coincidence,” the Biden campaign team captioned.

The increasingly violent rhetoric of Donald Trump, who is ahead in the polls ahead of the Republican caucuses, is putting party officials in an extremely difficult position.

Especially Republican figures in the Senate, such as Mitch McConnell, who publicly criticized the former president’s comments yesterday.

In mid-November, Donald Trump called his political opponents “scum” and “parasites.” Joe Biden’s campaign then accused him of imitating “the authoritarian speech of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.”

In his first election campaign, in 2015, Donald Trump caused shock among others with his statements about “rape” illegal immigrants.

He promised then to erect a massive wall, 3,000 kilometers long, along the US border with Mexico, to prevent immigrants from entering the US territory. The project was never completed.