President Donald Trump called on the Department of Justice to prosecute a political opponent and called immigrants “animals” during a roundtable with California leaders on Wednesday.
Trump refers to some immigrants in sanctuary cities as ‘animals’
Pres. Trump refers to some who cross the border illegally as ‘animals,’ not people. "You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are." The president was holding a roundtable discussion with California elected officials who oppose the state’s sanctuary law. https://abcn.ws/2rPYlRo
Posted by ABC News on Wednesday, May 16, 2018
The livestreamed roundtable at the White House centered on so-called sanctuary policies, which limit local law enforcement cooperation with federal deportation efforts. His dehumanizing comments about immigrants weren’t new, nor was his attack on a Democratic politician.
The most remarkable thing about both of them was that in the Trump era, reducing a group of people to subhuman and threatening to incarcerate another politician were scarcely notable.
