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Mexican President Likens Trump’s Ascent To The Rise of Hitler

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto breaks likens Donald Trump to the rise of Hitler.

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Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said last week he wouldn’t attack U.S. presidential candidates by name. It didn’t take him long to break his own rule by bluntly comparing GOP front-runner Donald Trump to Adolph Hitler.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said last week he wouldn’t attack U.S. presidential candidates by name. It didn’t take him long to break his own rule by bluntly comparing GOP front-runner Donald Trump to Adolph Hitler.

In comments published in the Excelsior newspaper Monday, Nieto said his country would not pay for Trump’s proposed border wall to keep illegal immigrants from entering the United States from Mexico.  He also likened Trump’s “strident tone” to the rise of dictators like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

“There have been episodes in human history, unfortunately, where these expressions of this strident rhetoric have only led to very ominous situations in the history of humanity,” Nieto said, in what is perhaps the most forceful foreign denunciation of the rise of Trump to date. “That’s how Mussolini got in, that’s how Hitler got in — they took advantage of a situation, a problem perhaps, which humanity was going through at the time, after an economic crisis.”

“And I think what [they] put forward ended up at what we know today from history, in global conflagration. We don’t want that happening anywhere in the world,” the Mexican leader added.

Nieto’s comments are the latest denunciation of Trump from Mexican leaders, both past and present. Mexican Finance Minister Luis Videgaray labeled Trump’s wall a “terrible” idea in an interview last week, and former Mexican presidents Felipe Calderon and Vicente Fox have both compared the billionaire businessman to Hitler. For his part, Trump has likened Mexican immigrants to murderers, rapists, and criminals who bring drugs over the border.

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