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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise endorses Trump for president (www.cnn.com)

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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise on Tuesday became the latest member of Republican leadership to endorse former President Donald Trump in his latest bid for the White House.

Scalise’s announcement comes less than two weeks before the Iowa caucuses kick off voting in the Republican presidential primary. All of House GOP leadership, except for House majority whip Tom Emmer, has now thrown their support behind Trump.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Former President Trump has repeatedly said undocumented immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country," language echoing the rhetoric of white supremacists and Adolf Hitler.

Why it matters: The phrase "poisoning the blood of our country" has a deep racist and antisemitic history, and the comments come as some Republicans have openly endorsed the once-fringe and racist "white replacement theory."

At least four times in recent months, Trump referred to immigrants as "poisoning the blood" of the nation.

He said it during an interview with a right-leaning website in September.

He said it again at a rally in December in New Hampshire.

He repeated it in a Truth Social post in December, then again at a campaign stop in Iowa.

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Reality check: The remarks "poisoning the blood of our country" are straight out of Hitler's 1925 autobiographical manifesto, "Mein Kampf" — his blueprint for a "pure Aryan" Germany and the removal of Jews.

"All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning," Hitler wrote.

"He poisons the blood of others but preserves his own blood unadulterated," Hitler wrote of Jewish males allowing Jewish females to marry white Christians. "Whenever Aryans have mingled their blood with that of an inferior race, the result has been the downfall of the people who were the standard-bearers of a higher culture," he wrote in another passage.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/axios-explains-the-racist-history-of-trumps-poisoning-the-blood/ar-AA1meN7k

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