Trump kept HITLER speeches beside his bed, ex-wife Ivana claims in resurfaced interview after presidential candidate paraphrased the Nazi dictator

An interview with former President Donald Trump's late first wife where she claims he owned a book of Adolf Hitler's speeches he kept at his bedside is resurfacing after Trump said migrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country.'

At a rally in New Hampshire, former President Donald Trump stood in front of a crowd of MAGA Republicans and said that illegal immigrants 'poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world'. 

Although he didn't elaborate on how migrants are 'poisoning' mental institutions and prisons - Trump's words resemble those of Adolf Hitler, who famously used the same phrase in his book Mein Kampf. 

Multiple outlets have dragged up a Vanity Fair profile from 1990 that Ivana, Trump's wife at the time and now ex-wife, told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband kept My New Order near his bed, which is a book of Hitler's speeches. Trump denied the accusation.

'[W]hen he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, 'Heil Hitler,' possibly as a family joke,' Marie Brenner, reporting for the magazine, wrote.

She later quoted Trump as responding to the accusation saying: 'If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.'

Adolf Hitler is one of the most prolific dictator's in history, rising to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming Chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.

Ivana Trump - who divorced the former president in 1990 - died in 2022. Trump has since been married two more times, to Marla Maples from 1993 to 1999 and current wife Melania Trump since 2005. 

Trump told his supporters in a speech on Saturday in New Hampshire that migrants from 'all over the world' are 'poisoning the blood of our country' - a phrase he copied from Hitler. 

'All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning,' the German dictator wrote in his 1925 manifesto. 

Trump also told his followers: 'We've got a lot of work to do - you know, when they let, I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that - we've got a lot of work to do.' 

It's unclear where he got this figure from because the U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that three million migrants have crossed the border in 2023 - not 15 or 16 million, as Trump claimed.

He elaborated that the migrants had 'poisoned' mental institutions and prisons 'all over the world' - not just in South America and not just the 'three or four countries that we think about'.

Trump said immigrants are 'pouring into our country' from Africa, Asia and all over the world. He even claimed that 'nobody is even looking at them, they just come in'.

The former President then incoherently ranted: 'The crime is going to tremendous, the terrorism is going to be, terrorism is going to be... and we built a tremendous piece of the wall and then we're going to build more and the election was rigged.

'We didn't do it but I figured they'd just throw it up - it was all built, it was all ready to be just hoisted up. The exact wall that the border patrol who are incredible, Brandon Judd and all of the people at border patrol - that's exactly what they designed.'

By the time Biden took office in January 2021 only 452 miles of wall had been constructed and only 40 miles of that wall was brand new, most of it replaced old fencing - so Trump's claims that the wall was 'all built' are not accurate.

This 458 miles is a fraction of the 1,954 mile border between the US and Mexico, POLITICO reported.

Trump has previously been alleged to have compared himself to Hitler by former Chief of Staff John Kelly.  

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Kelly immediately pushed back against the comment, according to Michael Bender's upcoming book Frankly, We Did Win This Election obtained by The Guardian.

'You cannot ever say anything supportive of Adolf Hitler,' Kelly told Trump during a trip to Europe in 2018 to mark 100 years since the end of World War I, Bender wrote in excerpts published Wednesday. 'You just can't.' 

Trump, however, was undeterred by Kelly's shock, instead going on to praise the Nazi leader's efforts to pull the German economy out of disarray in the 1930s after World War I.

Bender wrote that Kelly told Trump that the German people would have been 'better off poor than subjected to the Nazi genocide.'

The Wall Street Journal reporter said Trump denied making the comment.

'This is totally false,' Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington told DailyMail.com. 'President Trump never said this'

'It is made up fake news, probably by a general who was incompetent and was fired,' she added, taking a swipe at former chief of staff.

A December 2018 report revealed Kelly and Trump were no longer on speaking terms and on December 28, 2018, the then-president announced Kelly would be leaving by the end of the year.

The White House announced that Mick Mulvaney would replace Kelly as the White House chief of staff.

Trump's comments seeming to praise Hitler prompted his then-chief of staff to give him a brief history lesson on the different sides in World War II, Bedner wrote in excerpts of his book.

Kelly 'reminded the president which countries were on which side during the conflict' and 'connected the dots from the First World War to the Second World War and all of Hitler's atrocities,' Bender writes.

Trump has denied making these comments.