Here is the Trump response, starting with an implied accusation (a common trait of those denying something they do not want made public):
"Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?" I (author Marie Brenner) 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."
What is clear is that the principles of propaganda which Trump has used so effectively are straight out of Hitler's and Goebbels handbook (The Principles of Propaganda). Hitler reveals that he has studied the US inventer of modern Public Relations, which is based on the doctrine that the masses are stupid and therefore must be guided by elite's using lies and propaganda. As Chomsky has said, propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to totalitarianism. Berney, who invented this fascist concept of mass maniipulation, taught Hitler, and Hitler taught Trump, based on all sharing the same doctrine of mass stupidity and techniques of noble deception.
I begin with Trump's articulation of the doctrine of mass stupidity:
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''My entire life, I've watched politicians bragging about how poor they are, how they came from nothing, how poor their parents and grandparents were. And I said to myself, if they can stay so poor for so many generations, maybe this isn't the kind of person we want to be electing to higher office. How smart can they be? They're morons. There's a perception that voters like poverty. I don't like poverty. Usually, there's a reason for poverty." If you are poor, there's a reason: you are a moron.
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Here is the basic rule of propaganda Trump has followed his entire life:
Trump repeated his Big Lie about immigrants being dangerous at each rally over and over to applause and roars, in a spectacle not seen since Hitler staged his theatrical rallies, which Trump will continue as a substitute for press conferences.
Here is how it played out during the Republican primary debates:
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