Former President Donald Trump shared some questionable comments about undocumented immigrants during a rally on Saturday, saying that they are “not people.”
The comments from Trump came as he continued to suggest that the people who were entering the country were prisoners or gang affiliated, mentioning "MS-13," where crossing the border.
“I don’t know if you call them people,” Trump said of the migrants during his rally in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday. “In some cases, they’re not people, in my opinion. But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.”
The former president was campaigning for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, who is facing off against state Sen. Matt Dolan and Secretary of State Frank LaRose in a neck-and-neck primary on Tuesday.
Trump didn’t stop with his criticism of the country’s immigration crisis, which has become a top issue for voters heading into the upcoming election, as the former president went on to say that if he wasn’t reelected, the country’s economy would be in serious jeopardy.
“If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country,” Trump said.
The Biden campaign was quick to respond to Trump’s “bloodbath” comments, saying that they were another example of his “threats of political violence.”
“He wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge,” campaign spokesman James Singer said in a statement.
Trump has raised eyebrows throughout this election cycle with his numerous questionable comments about immigrants.
Previously, the former president said that migrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” a remark that many compared to similar phrases made in Adolf Hilter’s “Mein Kampf.” Trump has since denounced and denied the comparison to Hitler.
More recently, Trump claimed that migrants entering the country were speaking languages that no one in the United States spoke. However, he did not give any examples on what he meant.
In the months leading to November, Trump is expected to continue hammering on the border and immigration, as a Monmouth University poll from last month found that 71% of Americans disapprove of how Biden is handling immigration and the crisis at the border.
Another poll from the Wall Street Journal reported that 65% of respondents disapprove of how Biden has handled securing the southern border, and 66% disapprove of how he has handled immigration.