Expert shocked as Trump appears to claim Hitler's theories as his own: 'It was my idea'

[Tom of Temecula]

For all the accusations and denials that former President Donald Trump has made about his use of Nazi talking points, an acclaimed New York City author says there's some truth to it. Kurt Anderson, who co-founded Spy Magazine and writes about politics, appeared on MSNBC's "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell to talk about Trump's supposed adoption of Adolf Hitler's terms and concepts.

"When [Trump] admits ignorance, one is inclined to believe it because he's ignorant of so much," Anderson explained. He was talking about how Trump has attempted to assuage comments, such as his accusation that immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of America, as a joke, and then pleaded ignorance of Hitler's speeches and writings.

During a rally in New Hampshire earlier this month, Trump painted immigrants entering the U.S. to be damaging the heritage of America “They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country," he said. "When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country."

Then in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt last week, the former president stuck to the poison comment, but pirouetted away any Hitler origins. "First of all, I know nothing about Hitler. I'm not a student of Hitler. I never read his works," he said during the interview. "They say that he said something about blood. He didn't say it the way I said it, either, by the way.

https://www.rawstory.com/kurt-anderson/

[RockRaven]

1. The trait of not being willing to admit unoriginality seems like something which

could be exploited to induce TFG to say/insist upon some very politically damaging stuff... More than he already does on his own, I mean.

[Igel]

7. I take it to mean parallel conclusions.

In the '60s a Canadian linguist claimed that language learners don't just go from "not fluent" to "fluent," but become fluent by topic and context. You can be good in colloquial, every day language, but not able to discuss turbines or accounting--or be good at those but pointless when it comes to computers or art.

That was his thesis; spun off monographs, articles, he was cited widely for his insightful ideas.

Sadly, his ideas were exactly those of some in the Prague Linguistics Circle from the 1920s and '30s, which he didn't cite at least once nor gave any evidence of knowing about. Why should he? Their publications were in a variety of languages--French, Czech, Russian, German. They all knew all four, so it didn't matter; but unless you know all four, it's not a cohesive body of work.

Oh, and he didn't use their words the exact same categories.

He re-invented the wheel.

[BOSSHOG]

2. I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HITLER

Now trump is Sgt Schultz. He’s kinda straying a little. His supporters love Hitler.

[SoFlaBro]

3. I hate that lying-ass orange motherfucker. Always got some slick shit coming out of his Whopperhole.

[dchill]

4. How expert can they be if that shocks them?

I'm totally serious. They need to stop being shocked, if they really are. And they need to not claim expertise if they're really shocked.

[Deuxcents]

5. He makes me sick. Will we ever be rid of him? 🤮

[PSPS]

6. The media won't let him go. Clicks!! Tune in to see what he said!!!11 It's outrageous!!111!!1!!

[usedtobedemgurl]

8. His ex said he had a book of Hitler's speeches.

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8