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13. The Time Magazine quote is false, but Vanity Fair's 1990 interview with Trump is TRUE.
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 01:29 AM
Mar 2020

And pretty damning. Note the signature Trump “denial” at the end.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/donald-trump-marie-brenner-ivana-divorce/amp
Vanity Fair
August 5, 2015
7 Takeaways from Vanity Fair’s 1990 Profile of Donald Trump
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Twenty-five years ago, this magazine’s Marie Brenner spent some time with Trump for an investigation into the dissolution of his marriage to Ivana Trump. In retrospect, the story has all the trappings of a perfect Trump piece: discord between reality and Trump’s claims about it, accusations of disloyalty, and triumphant highs amid a string of batted-away lows. Here are seven takeaways that still matter.
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Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”

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This message was self-deleted by its author democratisphere Mar 2020 #1
snopes rates this as false. not able to find any such thing in time mag issues nt msongs Mar 2020 #2
Please take down the OP SCantiGOP Mar 2020 #9
To clarify they said he never made that statement on the other hand Ivana said he does cstanleytech Mar 2020 #18
He's a very sick man. Turbineguy Mar 2020 #3
Memoirs of an American 'President'. spanone Mar 2020 #4
Admirable. dchill Mar 2020 #5
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-hitler-mein-kampf/ rickford66 Mar 2020 #6
Since people don't generally like to follow links - here's the gist of it. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #10
True but then we have this cstanleytech Mar 2020 #19
Yep, FALSE. Duppers Mar 2020 #20
welp... snopes. RockRaven Mar 2020 #7
He said he read it in college...maybe. But a friend of his said he gave Trump a copy of Hitler's Karadeniz Mar 2020 #8
It's a pity that tRUMP has never read the last chapter of the story of Hitler's life... abqtommy Mar 2020 #11
Not true... radical noodle Mar 2020 #12
The Time Magazine quote is false, but Vanity Fair's 1990 interview with Trump is TRUE. VOX Mar 2020 #13
I really can't imagine him reading anything radical noodle Mar 2020 #14
Maybe some 30 years ago, he could manage a paragraph... VOX Mar 2020 #15
Maybe they made a child's version radical noodle Mar 2020 #17
*Might be* VOX Mar 2020 #21
What he actually read was "Mein Covfefe" flibbitygiblets Mar 2020 #16
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