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cstanleytech

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19. True but then we have this

Reply to Ms. Toad (Reply #10)

Thu Mar 5, 2020, 02:09 AM

Mar 2020

It appears, on the other hand, that Trump did (and perhaps still does) own a collection of Hitler’s speeches that a friend presented to him as a gift. According to Vanity Fair, Ivana Trump told her lawyer that her husband kept the book near his bedside and occasionally read from it. Also according to Vanity Fair, however, Trump insisted he had never read it, nor would he.

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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