On Friday, the leading contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump, sat down for an interview with syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt.

In the “Hugh Hewitt Show” interview, Trump talks about a cornucopia of topics, not only about the 2024 campaign and the broader subject of U.S. elections and insurrection, but recent attempts by Democrats and the legacy media to smear Trump as an acolyte of Adoph Hitler. And Trump teased about the possible situation that would push him to attend a GOP presidential primary debate.

But let’s start with the latest, nothingburger controversy the Democrats and their media pals made up about him: extrapolating his recent, off-the-cuff comments about illegals and the Southern border crisis with writings by the German dictator.

The media has run numerous stories insinuating that the former president was both xenophobic and echoed Hitler’s writings, when Trump spoke about the masses of illegal immigrants crossing the Southern border, “poisoning the blood of our country.”

Trump said during the interview with Hewitt “that he’s not a student of Hitler, and he’s never read ‘Mein Kampf,’ the manifesto written by Hitler.” He continued:

First of all, I know nothing about Hitler. I’m not a student of Hitler. I never read his works. They say that he said something about blood. He didn’t say it the way I said it, either, by the way, It’s a very different kind of a statement.

There was also another piece of fake news to put to rest–whether Donald Trump would commit to handing over power peacefully if he returns to the White House in the 2024 election. Trump answered that, despite the 2020 election being “rigged,” he chose to hand over power:

Of course. And I did that this time. And I’ll tell you what. The election was rigged, and we have plenty of evidence of it. But I did it anyway.

Lastly, Trump made a bit of news during the interview, when hinting under what circumstances he might be persuaded to show up to a debate during the Republican presidential primaries:

Trump on Friday also said that if the 2024 presidential race was close, and there was one other Republican candidate left after the New Hampshire primary, he would debate them.

Since Trump spoke about many important subjects during the interview, watch for more coverage about it in RedState.