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In a Monday morning interview, former President Donald Trump made a series of outlandish and false claims about Vice President Kamala Harris' economic proposals.
"She wants to go into government housing," Trump said on The Hugh Hewitt Show. "She wants to go into government feeding. She wants to feed people. She wants to feed people governmentally. She wants to go into a communist party type of a system."
It's unclear what Trump meant by "government feeding," and a Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The comment came after Hewitt, a conservative radio host, noted that Harris has proposed giving $25,000 in down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers, a policy that some economists have warned would spike demand and raise prices.
"That's going to drive the prices up, yeah," Trump said. "Your price is going to be $100,000 dollars more now."
More broadly, Harris has proposed working with the private sector via tax incentives to build three million more homes, despite the former president's suggestion that she "wants to go into government housing."
Moments later, Trump pivoted toward immigration, arguing that some immigrants have "bad genes" and are predisposed to murder.
"You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it's in their genes," Trump said. "And we've got a lot of bad genes in our country right now."
It's the latest example of Trump using inflammatory rhetoric to describe some immigrants. Last year, he said that some immigrants were "poisoning the blood" of the country, which was seen by many as a reference to racial purity.
Trump also claimed on Monday that Harris has allowed "people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers." He was apparently referring to recently released data from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicating that more than 13,000 noncitizens in the US who have been convicted of homicide, either in the US or other countries.
The Department of Homeland Security has said that data is being misinterpreted, and that "the data goes back decades; it includes individuals who entered the country over the past 40 years or more."
