June 24th, 2024

In The News

Virginia GOP Candidate Derrick Anderson Silent as Trump Dehumanizes Immigrants with ‘Not People’ and ‘Animals’ Rhetoric and Calls for ‘Bloodbath’ If He Loses Election

Donald Trump kicked off his 2016 presidential campaign by descending the escalators of Trump Tower and calling Mexicans criminals and “rapists.” But as he has done throughout the past decade, Trump has found new lows to dehumanize communities. During a campaign stop in Ohio in mid-March in support of Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, Trump referred to immigrants as “animals” and stated that they aren’t even human beings. “I don’t know if you call them people,” he said. “In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion.”