By James OliphantFILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a rally in Saginaw, Michigan, U.S., October 3, 2024. Migrants who had come across the U.S. border were slaughtering people across the country, he falsely claimed. “It is painting a whole population as subhuman.”In doing so, Trump also has blurred the distinction between legal and illegal immigration. A hallmark of Trump's turn toward darker language is the more graphic description of violence allegedly meted out by migrants. Treisman said Trump’s speech in Erie was among the harshest that he has tracked.

Source: Washington Post October 08, 2024 09:33 UTC