The current occupant, earlier this afternoon:
“You know, we took many people off the streets of Washington, D.C. They’re hard-core, they’re not gonna be good. In ten years, in twenty years, in two years, they’re gonna be criminals. They’re gonna be — they were born to be criminals, frankly. They were born to be criminals. And they’re tough, and mean, and they’ll cut ya throat, and they won’t even think about it the next day. They won’t even remember that they did it. And we’re not gonna have those people.”The idea that some people are born to be criminals, that they can never change, and that “we” are not gonna have them: well, where are they going to go, then? Into prison for life, for any offense?
[My transcription. Gonna and ya are true to his speaking. That he’s a convicted felon (with criminal ancestry) talking about criminality is surely lost on him.]
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Someone on Bluesky pointed out how Hilary Clinton was reviled in 2016 for her speech 20 years earlier about predators - which I'm sure she regretted and no longer believed. And here we have Trump, who has always believed Black people are subhuman and are predators and it gets no comment at all.
This bit jumped out when I watched, so I rewound (so to speak) and recorded it. I think Aaron Rupar has it on BlueSky. But yes, the Overton window is broken.
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