A disturbing new expose from Donald Trump's nephew Fred drew comparisons between the former president's views and Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler's wave of mass murder.
Time Magazine published Wednesday an excerpt from Fred Trump III's forthcoming book "All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way" that includes a strange White House conversation with his uncle, then U.S. president.
Fred, who has a son with a disability and was advocating for others during the pandemic, was invited to the Oval Office.
“Those people . . . ” Trump reportedly told his nephew. “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”
Fred Trump also recounted a call about his disabled son William's mounting medical bills during which he said Trump replied, "Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”
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The report sent shockwaves coursing across social media as voters considered the sentiment Trump expressed and the policy of a leader to whom he is often compared, once by his own running mate.
"Hitler had the same idea," wrote X user Ben Schaeffer. He shared an article about how the Nazi program of mass murdering physically and mentally disabled children began.
"In fall 1938, the parents of a severely disabled infant petitioned Hitler for the right to kill their child," reports the educational organization Facing History & Ourselves. "He granted the petition and saw in the request an opportunity to encourage what he called 'mercy killings' or 'euthanasia.'
"In fact, according to science historian Robert N. Proctor, the goal was not to provide mercy to the victims but to improve the 'Aryan' race and make hospital beds and personnel available for the coming war."
Schaeffer was not alone in drawing the comparison.
"I recall this being a popular opinion in 1930s-40s Germany," wrote Brian O'Malley.
"Adolph [sic] had the same idea," wrote Neil Kornfein. "Same diagnosis."
