Media reacts to Trump’s ‘bad genes’ comment on migrant murderers

Karah Rucker

A COMMENT MADE BY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP ON A RADIO SHOW MONDAY IS MAKING HEADLINES – 

LEFT-LEANING NEWS OUTLETS ARE REPORTING –

“Trump suggests immigrants have ‘bad genes’ in latest disparagement of migrants.”

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THESE NEWS ARTICLES ARE REFERRING TO COMMENTS MADE IN A HALF-HOUR INTERVIEW TRUMP GAVE WITH HUGH HEWITT – A CONSERVATIVE RADIO TALK SHOW HOST. 

TRUMP MENTIONS MIGRANTS WITH “BAD GENES” – IN A PORTION OF THE INTERVIEW WHERE TRUMP IS SPECIFICALLY TALKING ABOUT MIGRANTS WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF MURDER.

“How about allowing people to come through an open border 13 thousand 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 murderer i believe this, its in their genes, and we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now, they had 425 thousand people come into our country that shouldn’t be here that are criminals.”

TRUMP’S COMMENTS ARE REFERRING TO AN ICE REPORT RECENTLY RELEASED –

SHOWING 435 THOUSAND MIGRANTS WITH CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS HAVE BEEN RELEASED BY THE AGENCY.

OF THEM – 13 THOUSAND HAD MURDER CONVICTIONS.

THE DATA RELEASED COVERS 4 DECADES OF MIGRANT RELEASES – ACCORDING TO DHS – AND INCLUDES NUMBERS ALL THE WAY UP TO JULY 21ST OF THIS YEAR.

IT IS UNCLEAR HOW MANY OF THE MIGRANTS WITH CRIMINAL OFFENSES ENTERED AND WERE RELEASED DURING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION.

THIS STORY IS ONE LARGELY BEING PICKED UP BY MEDIA WITH A LEFT-LEANING BIAS.

RIGHT-LEANING OUTLETS LIKE FOX AND THE NEW YORK POST – DID NOT HAVE WRITE UPS ON TRUMP’S COMMENTS AS OF MONDAY AFTERNOON.

POLITICO INCLUDED A STATEMENT FROM A TRUMP CAMPAIGN SPOKESPERSON IN THEIR NEWS ARTICLE –

SAYING TRUMP’S “BAD GENES” COMMENT WAS “REFERRING TO MURDERERS, NOT MIGRANTS”.

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