Trump on immigrants: ‘We got a lot of bad genes in our country right now’
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Former President Donald Trump used increasingly harsh rhetoric to attack immigrants, suggesting on Monday during an interview that immigrants commit horrendous crimes because “it’s in their genes.”
“How about allowing people to come to an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers, many of them murdered far more than one person, and they’re now happily living in the United States. You know now a murder, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now,” he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
Trump also said Vice President Kamala Harris “wants to go into a Communist Party-type system” to “feed people governmentally.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Last week, he promised to remove Temporary Protected Status and deport the Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, after weeks of spreading baseless claims that the Haitian population there was eating pets with his running mate JD Vance . The national spotlight led to bomb threats at Springfield schools .
Harris said Trump’s rhetoric against the migrants “has to stop” in an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists in September.
Immigration is an issue that resonates with voters, and it’s a vulnerability for Harris. In a September New York Times/Siena poll of registered voters across the country, Trump led Harris on the issue 53 percent to 42 percent. She recently made a campaign stop in Douglas, Arizona, to call for tougher border security.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump, who has repeated the 13,000 figure before, pulled it from a letter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales released last month. That letter showed that 13,099 non-citizens on ICE’s “non-detained docket” were convicted of homicide. However, that data only shows the individuals are not detained by ICE; they are more likely in state or federal prison. And the number of convicted criminals on that docket goes back decades.
No, nil, nada inane comments about feral cats.
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Remarkably Trump is absolved by merely being Trump.
I'm looking at a lot of bad genes in trump and his cult
he and his cult have defective DNA ...
So much for racist dog whistles?
He spouts what his peops want to hear.
He is their white knight and savior. He will smite their enemies and exult them above all others.
emphasis on white ...
Crooked Donald, I will give him credit (begrudgingly) is his own 'mouthpiece.' This fiend does not mind carrying the biggest accumulation of LIES around to each and every 'whistle-stop' he makes in state visits!
The poster boy for “bad genetics” tune in tomorrow for more racists tropes from Trump. Tomorrow he will single out Hispanics.
His genetics don't appear to be all that desirable....
he might as well just wear the klan hood and then he wouldn't have to spend all morning sculpting his hair hat ...
Well, it's clear his supporters are very concerned about foreign "genes" getting into their breeding pool, which is why many of them prefer picking up dates at their family reunions.
They're proud of their ignorance, agnorance
... and inbred heritage.
“Tomorrow…”
…will be another day filled with hatred. And it won’t matter a whit. The days of anything said or done mattering passed years ago.
He is beyond being held accountable as he has become a martyr to those, in their absence of thought, in their fear and ignorance, and in their inability to understand the potential consequences are entrenched in their cultish devotion. And he couldn’t give a fuck, laughing all the way to the bank, and frighteningly, perhaps all the way to a draconian second term.
VOTE!
Vote all the hate out! Harris/Walz.
Trump has lost his mind and the only thing standing in his way are a handful of apathetic "moderates" or "independents" in about 14% of the states.
What an indictment. I remember when world leaders often voiced respect for "the American people," even when they disagreed with our leaders. I imagine that sentiment has slipped quite a bit.
With one month left Trump may have weathered the "storm". If his support was going to noticeably diminish I think it would have happened by now.
The national media have done a monumental disservice to our country by going along with the pretense that Trump is in any way acceptable as president. The media has in effect told low information voters that it is ok to vote for him, , that they arent doing anything wrong.
Couldn't agree more. The media has indeed dropped the ball.
The WSJ isn't the media I guess but look what they did with that JD 'op-ed'. Unreal.
When are people going to quit making excuses for trump and admit he is a racist. For some if he painted a KKK on his forehead they would still say he’s kidding.
when he tell’s you who he is believe him. .
It is because he is a racist that they are voting for him. Crooked Donald can not be any clearer, he is encouraged by their support of his regressivism. They know it and certainly Crooked Donald knows it!
Crooked Donald is the self-indulgent, SOB many of his millions of followers want to be! That is why they shunned every other GOP politician three times now- for the 'dirtiest player in the game.' Because. . . Crooked Donald is the 'model' republican they wish to be and likely will become in another life! Stop pussy-footing around with this and call them what they are!
And others among his supporters would give him a Hitler salute and proclaim "We're with you sir! Ready to stand up and stand by!"..
We have to get over the 'shock' that is Crooked Donald's antics put on display right now (everyday). The man is a walking, talking, EARNED (free media trope) Media 'magnet.'
For every bit of 'straight' earned media Harris/Walz generates, Crooked Donald multiplies and maximizes that with lies and disinformation which drowns her out! This is the purpose for lying on an daily basis in order to get picked up. It does not matter to many in the public that it is lies (its too much/too long/to complicated to follow).
Crooked Donald calls this: "winning the messaging war" and apparently the thinking by Crooked Donald is people are not going to hold it against him that he is a FAT LIAR!
Vote HARRIS/WALZ
Truth. Integrity. Decency. Dignity. Calm.
I'm pretty upset that I didn't take advantage of the trump supporter demographic in the past when I was in sales ...
really, suckers just asking to be fleeced
Trump on immigrants: ‘We got a lot of bad genes in our country right now’
WTF? Does that mean that when Trump was president we only had a lot of "good genes" in the country?