Mehdi Hasan Asks Piers Morgan If He’s Asked His ‘Pal’ Trump to ‘Stop Quoting Hitler’

Mehdi Hasan asked Piers Morgan if he would condemn former president Donald Trump for “speaking like Hitler” on Thursday’s edition of Piers Morgan Uncensored.

The pair were debating the dynamics of Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon when Hasan raised the topic of the former president – and Morgan’s relationship with him.

“On the rhetoric, I wish I didn’t have to compare Donald Trump to Hitler,” Hasan said of the language Trump had previously used to describe some immigrants. “But when he quotes the lines from Mein Kampf, as a journalist –.

The two sparred during the following exchange:

MORGAN: Come on.

HASAN: As a journalist, should I not point out?

MORGAN: You shouldn’t compare him to Hitler, because he’s not Hitler.

HASAN: Okay, so what should I do? So I’m a journalist, Donald Trump says immigrants are poisoning our blood, I go look in history, who’s the only person who said that? Hitler. Should I not tell my viewers on Piers Morgan Uncensored? Should I go [silent], can’t tell them that. So what should I say?

Morgan: You can say he shouldn’t use language like that. You can’t say he’s the new Hitler.

HASAN: I haven’t called him the new Hitler. I’ve never called him the new Hitler.

Morgan and Hasan each agreed that Trump was not comparable to the deceased German dictator as Hasan surrendered that Trump had not plotted to kill millions. However, Hasan said he would not disavow anyone who claimed Trump speaks like Hitler before he put Morgan’s friendship with Trump in the spotlight.

Hasan later asked Morgan, “Do you condemn him speaking like Hitler?”

Morgan fired back, “Yes.”

Hasan shot back, “Does that not outrage you?”

Morgan responded, “Of course.”

Hasan then asked, “He’s your pal. Why don’t you tell him to stop it? Have you ever told him to stop quoting Hitler?”

Morgan concluded, “Yes, probably.”

Trump said in December of last year he had not read Hitler’s manifesto and biography, Reuters reported.

That same month, Trump told a crowd in New Hampshire, “They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”

Trump added, “That’s what they’ve done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”

Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored.

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