At recent rally, Trump says immigrants are, “poisoning the blood of our country."

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Joy leads this episode of The ReidOut with Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments at a rally over the weekend, saying that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”. Some say these words sound a lot like the Nazi rhetoric written by Adolf Hitler himself, in the book “Mein Kampf”, which, according to Trump’s first wife, Trump kept on his bedside table. Joy and her guests discuss this plus the new reporting from ProPublica, about how Justice Clarence Thomas’s private complaints about his salary, sparked fear that he would resign, threatening the conservative presence on the Supreme Court. Plus, in the Middle East, Israel is facing growing international pressure over civilian casualties. Joy and her guest discuss how The Pope, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and foreign ministers from the UK and Germany, have all condemned various attacks by Israel's military in Gaza. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Tonight on the readout.
0:05.0	Look, I think it's highly unlikely that Donald Trump's ever read Highmind Comf.
0:10.0	Yeah, he says something outlandish, they attack what he said rhetorically, but if you come back to the
0:14.2	root of the issue, it's where a lot of the American people agree with him on.
0:17.1	Remember how Trump's first wife said he kept a book of Hitler speeches by his bedside. Now Trump is echoing Nazi rhetoric
0:25.2	as part of his stump speech and as usual Republican politicians are coming to
0:29.8	his defense. Also tonight new reporting on Justice Clarence Thomas and his quest to live
0:35.3	like the Joneses while serving on the court, which could go a long way to explain
0:39.7	why he allowed his wealthy friends to give him such lavish, lavish gifts.
0:45.4	And fresh off their 148 million dollar court victory over Rudy Giuliani, the women he
0:50.4	defamed Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss are now filing a new lawsuit against Rudy.
0:57.0	But we begin tonight with the phrase,
1:02.0	poisoning the blood of our country. But we begin tonight with the phrase,
1:02.7	poisoning the blood of our country.
1:05.7	If it sounds like Nazi talk, it's because it is.
1:09.3	In chapter 11 of Adolf Hitler's fascist manifesto,
1:12.4	Mein Kampf, he writes,
1:14.0	all great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race
1:19.5	died out from blood poisoning.
1:22.0	That little turn of phrase has since been parroted by
1:25.8	other autocrats like the far right leader of Hungary, Victor Orban, who was
1:29.8	described largely Muslim Middle Eastern and North African asylum seekers in Europe as a poison.
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