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‘Full eugenicist’: Trump says ‘bad genes’ make immigrants more likely to commit murder

Donald Trump is falsely alleging immigrants' genetics make them predisposed to committing the crime of murder, and says immigrants coming into the U.S. have "a lot of bad genes."

The ex-president, a convicted felon running again for the White House falsely alleged his democratic presidential opponent, Vice President Harris, has allowed 13,000 murderers to enter the country. That figure is the sum total of all people convicted of murder who have crossed the border over the past 40 years, NBC News reported, including during Trump's time as president. It also incudes people who may currently be in state or federal prison.

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Trump offers souvenir signature while visiting rabbi's gravesite for Oct. 7 remembrance

Former President Donald Trump offered his signature as a souvenir while visiting the gravesite of a revered Jewish rabbi to honor the victims of the Oct. 7 attacks.

On the anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, Trump visited the New York City gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. The former rabbi was the leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement of Orthodox Judaism until he died in 1994, and is widely revered as one of the centuries most influential Jewish leaders.

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WATCH: Tim Walz attacks Trump economy live on Fox News

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, went on Fox News on Sunday morning to lay out the case for the Democratic ticket and attack Republicans' economic policies.

In a 15-minute interview with Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream, Walz pushed back on many right-wing talking points and drew a sharp distinction between the two parties economic leadership. He celebrated the work of U.S. Vice President Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, and attacked former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.

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'Rumors and lies': CNN's Dana Bash unleashes attack on Trump's latest conspiracy theory

CNN host Dana Bash claimed former President Donald Trump was "hurting" his own MAGA voters by spreading conspiracy theories about FEMA support in western North Carolina in the aftermath of flooding caused by Hurricane Helene.

"The Biden administration is blasting Donald Trump's barrage of lies in the wake of Hurricane Helene," Bash said during a CNN panel discussion on Monday. "The former president is falsely accusing federal relief agencies of maliciously withholding and misusing aid."

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Ex-Trump aide fears victorious Trump could punish disaster-hit state if votes against him

"The View" began its Monday show hitting Donald Trump over false information he's shared about the government response to Hurricane Helene — and voicing concern for badly affected North Carolina if it doesn't elect the former president.

On Saturday, Trump was joined by Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he falsely claimed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had run out of money because President Joe Biden spent it on support for immigrants. He also claimed last week that FEMA was intentionally withholding aid from affected areas that are in Republican states.

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Deep dive probe into 9 years of Trump rallies reveals startling changes: NY Times

Donald Trump's speeches have grown noticeably darker and less coherent — and New York Times correspondent Peter Baker has tracked the changes using statistics.

The reporter conducted an analysis of the former president's rally speeches dating back to 2015 and found that they had nearly doubled in length, from 45 minutes eight years ago to 82 minutes now. And they show clear signs of advancing age and diminishing mental capacity.

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'Very sinister': Trump stuns Republicans and Dems with on-air 'bad genes' rant

Former President Donald Trump stunned political experts on both sides of the aisle Monday with an on-air rant about people with "bad genes."

Trump, during an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, relied on what critics called the rhetoric of eugenics — the discredited philosophy behind Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's attempt to exterminate Jewish people — when he railed against undocumented immigrants.

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'Table is being set' for post-election chaos by Trump's 'vile' lies: Morning Joe panelist

Donald Trump and his family are setting the stage for post-election chaos with increasingly violent rhetoric, according to panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

The former president returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, to rally at the site of his first apparent assassination attempt, which he and his family baselessly blamed on Democrats, and host Joe Scarborough and his guests agreed that Trump was stoking the possibility of violence if he loses the election to Kamala Harris.

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'Increasingly deranged' Trump is inciting 'civil war' as election loss looms: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned Monday that an "increasingly desperate" Donald Trump is inciting civil war in anticipation of another election loss.

The former president returned to the scene of his first apparent assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he baselessly accused Democrats of trying to kill him and his family members presented the November election as a choice between "good versus evil.

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'Daddy issues': Ex-GOP insider says Trump and his allies need 'group therapy session'

Donald Trump, his pick for the GOP vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance, and X owner Elon Musk all have "daddy issues and mommy issues" that they are taking out on the American public, Tara Setmayer, a former senior advisor for anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project and a former Republican congressional staffer, said on Sunday.

Setmayer, previously part of the conservative collective formed in 2019 with the agenda to defeat Trump at the ballot box and to "ensure Trumpism failed alongside him," appeared on MSNBC over the weekend.

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'People are leaving': 'Stunning' video appears to show Trump fans departing while he talks

Donald Trump has consistently claimed that his fans don't leave his rallies early, but that appears to be undermined by footage from his Sunday rally.

Trump over the weekend spoke in Wisconsin, where he made multiple verbal slip-ups that were ridiculed online. He also appeared to get distracted by an "aggressive" fly.

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'Evan juggles': Trump ridiculed by onlookers for several verbal slip-ups at latest rally

Donald Trump on Sunday gave a speech in which he messed up his words multiple times, leading observers to label it yet "another senior moment."

Trump spoke in Wisconsin, where he made a comment that some took as a veiled threat to supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris. After the rally, he took to Truth Social to reignite a flame war with a late-night host.

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'Is that a threat?' Trump stuns observers with comment about Harris voter 'getting hurt'

Donald Trump shocked observers on Sunday with a comment he made about a potential supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris at one of the former president's swing-state rallies.

Trump, who has been accused of fostering violence that occurred on Jan. 6, 2021, gave a speech in Wisconsin over the weekend. At that rally, the ex-president battled a fly on stage and called his own campaign members "so stupid."

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