The GOP presidential nominee is dialing up hateful rhetoric just weeks before Election Day. Even by the usual Donald Trump standards, this week was bonkers. The Republican presidential nominee went on unhinged, racist rants against women and immigrants, denigrated one of the largest majority-Black cities in the U.S., threatened news networks with retaliation and spread falsehoods about critical assistance to people devastated by back-to-back hurricanes that ravaged several states. The former president flooded the zone with so many ridiculous and offensive things that individual comments struggled to break through the noise. Some Republicans pushed back against a few of the most outrageous lies, without calling Trump out, while the overwhelming volume of garbage forced the media to move on. (…) Trump has long used hostile rhetoric against immigrants. Last year, for example, he said migrants were “poisoning the blood” of America, dehumanizing language first used by dictator Adolf Hitler in Germany. On Thursday, he also defended calling them rapists, a claim he first made when he launched his 2016 presidential campaign. “That’s right, I used the word ‘rape.’ They raped our country,” Trump, who was himself found legally liable for sexual abusing writer E. Jean Carroll, said of migrants during a speech at the Detroit Economic Club. Research indicates that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native- born citizens and that there is no correlation between an increase in undocumented people and a rise in crime. Trump veered into bizarre tangents during the same address, which ran two hours, as he discussed the economy, the cost of living and the price of groceries.
via huff: ‘Rape,’ ‘Dumb Women’ And ‘Bad Genes’: Inside Trump’s Week Of Unhinged Rants
