I know an older man in my community that met Ivana Trump right before a funeral in Florida, recently after her divorce from Donald. This guy swears to me up and down that Ivana told him that Trump owns a copy of Mein Kampf and he doesn't exactly hide it away in a storage contauner somewhere.
Do I believe the story? I lean towards no. These types of things make me wonder sometimes though...
My Dad was about the age of Fred Trump, the President's father. We had a case of books. We had
Mein Kampf there, along with
Berlin Diary (by the war journalist, William L. Shirer),
The Book of Mormon, and a few others.
That generation was far more serious about history. In addition, people read books to understand history. Just because you had a book didn't mean you signed off on the author's point of view.
My parents were liberal Adlai Stevenson Democrats, who would be considered liberals for their time on most issues. They never voted Republican, except for Nelson Rockefeller (who gave my Dad, a civil servant, generous raises). I know this is unfathomable to many folks here, but my Dad was a WWII veteran, so people figured he was smart enough to know what he was reading. And he was quite knowledgeable on current events. If he were alive and sharp today, he'd tie most of Atlas in intellectual knots. (I do wonder what color avatar he'd have, though.)
