Emell Derra Adolphus
Mon, October 7, 2024
Donald Trump revealed an unhinged eugenics theory Monday, claiming during a morning rant that some migrants have “bad genes” that make them predisposed to committing murder.
Trump spent a good chunk of an interview on the The Hugh Hewitt radio show slamming the policies of his political opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and baselessly accused her of wanting to install a communist government.
Trump and GOP Make BS Migrant Claim Amid FEMA Hurricane Shortfall
“She wants to [do] government housing. She wants to go into government feeding. She wants to feed people. She wants to feed people governmentally,” he said as host Hugh Hewitt, as he listened without saying a word. “She wants to go into a community party-type system. When you look at the things that she proposes, they’re so far off. She has no clue.”
Trump then attacked Harris’ handling of illegal immigration—despite her pushing back against his claims of a “crisis”—and alleged that she was letting people into the country with “bad genes.”
“How about allowing people to come to an open border, 13,000 of which were murders, many of them murdered far more than one person, and they are not happily living in the United States,” he said. “And now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes.”
He added, “We got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”
The Daily Beast.
Trump attacks Harris' economic plans, says she 'wants to feed people governmentally'
Bryan Metzger
Mon, October 7, 2024
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Trump gave a rambling response when discussing Kamala Harris' economic proposals.
He said that she "wants to feed people governmentally."
Trump also said that some immigrants have "bad genes" and are predisposed to murder.
In a Monday morning interview, former President Donald Trump made a series of outlandish and false claims about Vice President Kamala Harris' economic proposals.
"She wants to go into government housing," Trump said on The Hugh Hewitt Show. "She wants to go into government feeding. She wants to feed people. She wants to feed people governmentally. She wants to go into a communist party type of a system."
It's unclear what Trump meant by "government feeding," and a Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The comment came after Hewitt, a conservative radio host, noted that Harris has proposed giving $25,000 in down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers, a policy that some economists have warned would spike demand and raise prices.
"That's going to drive the prices up, yeah," Trump said. "Your price is going to be $100,000 dollars more now."
More broadly, Harris has proposed working with the private sector via tax incentives to build three million more homes, despite the former president's suggestion that she "wants to go into government housing."
Mon, October 7, 2024
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Trump gave a rambling response when discussing Kamala Harris' economic proposals.
He said that she "wants to feed people governmentally."
Trump also said that some immigrants have "bad genes" and are predisposed to murder.
In a Monday morning interview, former President Donald Trump made a series of outlandish and false claims about Vice President Kamala Harris' economic proposals.
"She wants to go into government housing," Trump said on The Hugh Hewitt Show. "She wants to go into government feeding. She wants to feed people. She wants to feed people governmentally. She wants to go into a communist party type of a system."
It's unclear what Trump meant by "government feeding," and a Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The comment came after Hewitt, a conservative radio host, noted that Harris has proposed giving $25,000 in down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers, a policy that some economists have warned would spike demand and raise prices.
"That's going to drive the prices up, yeah," Trump said. "Your price is going to be $100,000 dollars more now."
More broadly, Harris has proposed working with the private sector via tax incentives to build three million more homes, despite the former president's suggestion that she "wants to go into government housing."
'We've got a lot of bad genes in our country'
Moments later, Trump pivoted toward immigration, arguing that some immigrants have "bad genes" and are predisposed to murder.
"You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it's in their genes," Trump said. "And we've got a lot of bad genes in our country right now."
It's the latest example of Trump using inflammatory rhetoric to describe some immigrants. Last year, he said that some immigrants were "poisoning the blood" of the country, which was seen by many as a reference to racial purity.
Trump also claimed on Monday that Harris has allowed "people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers." He was apparently referring to recently released data from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicating that more than 13,000 noncitizens in the US who have been convicted of homicide, either in the US or other countries.
The Department of Homeland Security has said that data is being misinterpreted, and that "the data goes back decades; it includes individuals who entered the country over the past 40 years or more."
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Trump: Immigrants Have Brought ‘Bad Genes’ Into The Country
Matt Shuham
Mon, October 7, 2024
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a campaign rally at Dodge County Airport, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024, in Juneau, Wis. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) via Associated Press
During an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday, Donald Trump said immigrants were filling the country with “bad genes” and used lies about decades-old crime statistics to make his point.
Trump has long been obsessed with the idea that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America — echoing Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s rhetoric. For years, he has lied that other countries are purposefully sending criminals to the United States.
As part of his recent weekslong racist smear campaign, Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), falsely said Haitian immigrants had raised the infectious disease rate in Springfield, Ohio. And Trump has been touting his mass deportation agenda, which he says he’ll enact as soon as he’s in office.
“How about allowing people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers?” Trump told Hewitt, referring to the Biden administration. “Many of them murdered far more than one person, and they’re now happily living in the United States. You know, now, a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we’ve got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. They left, they had 425,000 people come into our country that shouldn’t be here that are criminals.”
The xenophobic claim that immigrants are genetically predisposed to committing violent crimes is shocking and false — but xenophobia is also a cornerstone of Trump’s presidential campaign.
Trump’s numbers are based on heavily manipulated statistics about the criminal conviction records of people with cases in immigration court — cases that span several decades, some long before President Joe Biden was in office, and which include people currently serving prison time.
The full transcript of Trump’s remarks is here.
Responding to a Republican congressman’s request, the Department of Homeland Security recently released statistics on people with criminal conviction histories who are on a list called the “non-detained docket.” The list specifically covers people with cases in immigration court who are not locked up in immigrant detention centers.
The DHS data covers people who’ve been in the United States for over 40 years. And it includes people who entered the country legally with green cards or have other forms of legal status, in addition to people who crossed the border without authorization. The data showed that as of July, 435,719 people were on the non-detained docket with some sort of conviction in their past. (For context, as NBC News noted, “According to ICE’s fiscal year 2023 budget justification, there were 405,786 convicted criminal immigrants on the non-detained docket as of June 5, 2021, just under five months after Trump left office, indicating many crossed during the Trump administration.”)
Of the people on the non-detained docket, 13,099 had a past conviction for homicide. This doesn’t mean that all of these people are walking free. Many are currently serving a sentence in state or federal prison or in jail — so they are not in immigrant detention.
Others have served their sentences already — though, as the initial DHS letter noted, “most noncitizens who are convicted of homicide are typically not eligible for release from ICE custody.”
Trump and Vance have been lying about these statistics for over a week, as FactCheck.org has documented. Other outlets have extensively covered these details already — as has the U.S. government.
“The data in this letter is being misinterpreted,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement released late last month, which was quoted by multipleoutlets. “The data goes back decades; it includes individuals who entered the country over the past 40 years or more, the vast majority of whose custody determination was made long before this administration. It also includes many who are under the jurisdiction or currently incarcerated by federal, state or local law enforcement partners.”
FactCheck.org asked the Trump campaign about all these details, and a spokesperson responded only by saying that Trump “will begin the largest mass deportation in history on day one.”
George Conway Sums Up A Donald Trump Tactic With 2 Words From Adolf Hitler
Lee Moran
Updated Mon, October 7, 2024
Updated Mon, October 7, 2024
Conservative attorney George Conway drew a damning parallel between the rhetoric of former President Donald Trump and Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler after Republican nominee Trump peddled the baseless claim that relief funding for Hurricane Helene is being used to assist undocumented immigrants.
It’s “a form of projection,” Conway told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner of Trump’s latest mound of misinformation, which Trump has pushed as the 2024 election is in the homestretch.
Trump “attributes to others motives that he himself has,” Conway continued.
The Trump White House in 2019 actually diverted $155 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief fund for its anti-immigrant policies.
“But it’s more than that,” Conway said.
The lawyer and fierce Trump critic then recalled the concept of “große Lüge.”
“That’s German. I don’t speak German, so forgive my pronunciation,” he said. “But ‘große Lüge’ is ‘big lie.’ It means ‘big lie.’ It was a phrase coined by Adolf Hitler in ‘Mein Kampf’ in 1925 for a propaganda technique by which you tell as big a lie as possible so that people will believe bigger lies.”
“They will believe bigger lies more than they believe smaller lies because they simply think that it’s impossible for anybody to have the temerity to tell such an amazingly large lie,” he added. “But Donald Trump does that as a matter of course. He’s a pathological liar and a sociopath.”
It is, however, said Conway, “par for the course for Donald Trump” and is “why he’s a cancer on American public life that must be removed, once and for all.”
Maurício Alencar
Sat, October 5, 2024
George Conway, a prominent Never Trump Republican and founder of the Lincoln Project, has likened the former president to Adolf Hitler—a well-worn comparison that has been made by Donald Trump’s fiercest critics.
But Conway’s comments on MSNBC on Friday were surprisingly specific as he criticized Trump over his misleading claims about President Joe Biden using disaster relief funds to house immigrants.
MSNBC’s Alex Wagner asked Conway what he thought about Trump’s accusation in his capacity as a “student of Trump’s strange psyche.”
“It’s a form of projection,” Conway responded, “He attributes to others motives that he himself has. But it’s more than that.”
In his explanation that Trump was lying to people in Georgia and North Carolina, Conway cited Hitler’s Mein Kampf, which was published nearly a decade before the Nazi dictator came to power.
“The words that came to mind when I read about this controversy today is the große Lüge,” Conway continued. “That’s German. I don’t speak German, so forgive my pronunciation. But große Lüge is ‘big lie.’ It means ‘big lie.’”
“It was a phrase coined by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf in 1925 for a propaganda technique by which you tell as big a lie as possible so that people will believe bigger lies.”
“They will believe bigger lies more than they believe smaller lies because they simply think that it’s impossible for anybody to have the temerity to tell such an amazingly large lie.”
“But Donald Trump does that as a matter of course. He’s a pathological liar and a sociopath.”
Conway, whose ex-wife Kellyanne Conway served under the Trump administration, repeated his characterization of the former president heard in “#Unfit” over four years ago.
JD Vance is among those to have previously suggested that Trump was “America’s Hitler”, but he has since said he was wrong to do so, and has been forgiven by the former president.
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