Trump Doubles Down on ‘Poisoning’ Rhetoric

Donald Trump doubled down on his description of immigrants as “poisoning the blood” of the country, language that echoes Hitler, the New York Times reports.

Said Trump: “We can be nice about it, we can talk about, ‘Oh, I want to be politically correct.’ But we have people coming in from prisons and jails, long-term murderers, people with sentences that the rest of their lives they’re going to spend in some jail in some country that many people have never even heard of. They’re all being released into our country.”

He went on: “These are people at the highest level of crime, and then you have mental institutions and insane asylums — I always say the difference is one is ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ you know, it’s a mental institution on steroids, OK? — and those mental institutions and insane asylums are being emptied out into the United States, and then you have terrorists pouring in at levels we have never seen before.”