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Botany

(70,500 posts)
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 09:23 AM Jul 2021

9/2015 Business Insider, Trump's interest in Hitler had been known from before the 2016 election.

But did we hear about this? No, but we heard 24/7 about Hillary, her emails, and her email server.

Sadly I think at least 50% of Trump supporters are totally fine with Trump getting "tips from Hitler."
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Business Insider
Sep 1, 2015, 8:25 AM

Donald Trump's ex-wife once said Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed

According to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband, real-estate mogul Donald Trump, now a leading Republican presidential candidate, kept a book of Hitler's speeches near his bed.

"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 ... Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist," Marie Brenner wrote.

Hitler was one of history's most prolific orators, building a genocidal Nazi regime with speeches that bewitched audiences.

"He learned how to become a charismatic speaker, and people, for whatever reason, became enamored with him," Professor Bruce Loebs, who has taught a class called the Rhetoric of Hitler and Churchill for the past 46 years at Idaho State University, told Business Insider earlier this year.

"People were most willing to follow him, because he seemed to have the right answers in a time of enormous economic upheaval."


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

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9/2015 Business Insider, Trump's interest in Hitler had been known from before the 2016 election. (Original Post) Botany Jul 2021 OP
Boy the right sure was able to convince people that things weren't going well underpants Jul 2021 #1

underpants

(182,778 posts)
1. Boy the right sure was able to convince people that things weren't going well
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 09:44 AM
Jul 2021

And basically erase the collective memory of the deregulation Capitalism gone wild collapse that was the Great Recession. Was the stock market boom of Trump’s time not expectable given the natural progression of a rebound?

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