Experts and political observers are pushing back on Donald Trump's recent promise that, if he's elected, his second term will include a "bloody" plan for immigration.
"And ya know getting them out will be a bloody story," Trump said about his plans for the removal of undocumented immigrants. He added that they "should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them."
These comments led to some outrage on social media after the rally.
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Mother Jones national affairs editor Mark Follman said the media had a "missing headline" from the event: "Trump vows to carry out mass deportation that will be 'bloody.'"
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin said Sunday that "it's utter journalistic malpractice if not outright bias to refuse to ask Trump at the debates about his threats of bloody mass arrests."
"It's an easy call for ABC. I have no idea if they are up to it," Rubin said on social media.
Dr. Jen Golbeck, a professor, said that it was "scarier-than-usual rhetoric at Trump's rally."
"He repeated the false claim that Venezuelan gangs have taken over whole apartment buildings in Aurora, CO with weapons 'even the military doesn't see,'" Golbeck said before quoting Trump's "bloody story" line.
Ex-George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum called the comments "a revelation about how he feels—and a troubling reminder of the sources of his appeal."
"He often fantasizes about unleashing state violence against groups and people he dislikes," Frum then added.
Conservative Bill Kristol said, "The promise of blood being spilled is of course a feature, not a bug, of Trump’s promised immigration policy."
