BOOK: Trump Boasted About Comparison To Hitler

Playbook reports:

ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl reports that Trump boasted that former German Chancellor Angela Merkel had complimented his ability to draw crowds — repeating a comment that implicitly compared him to Adolf Hitler, the murderous antisemitic leader of Nazi Germany.

At least twice, Karl writes, Trump gloated to a prominent member of Congress that Merkel — who detested the 45th president privately and had trouble hiding her scorn publicly — told him she was “amazed” by the number of people who came to see him speak, and Trump said “she told me that there was only one other political leader who ever got crowds as big as mine.”

In a statement to Playbook, a Trump campaign aide denied the account and called Karl “disgraceful and talentless.” “This filth either belongs in the discount bargain bin in the fiction section of the bookstore or should be repurposed as toilet paper,” the spokesman said.

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