Former president Trump made his case to America’s Latino community Wednesday in a town hall with the TV network Univision. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.
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00:00Former President Trump made his case to America's Latino community Wednesday in a town hall with the TV network Univision.
00:06During the event, Trump stood by provocative and seemingly made-up claims about immigrants,
00:10including that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio have been stealing and eating local pets.
00:15Do you really believe that these people are eating the people's pets?
00:21Well, thank you very much. This was just reported.
00:23I was just saying what was reported, that's been reported.
00:27And eating other things, too, that they're not supposed to be.
00:31But this is, all I do is report.
00:34Local officials have denied that these rumors are true.
00:36Trump also repeated his claim that other countries are sending jail and mental institution inmates
00:40to the U.S.
00:41They're also coming in largely, and tremendous numbers coming in out of mental institutions.
00:47They're emptying out mental institutions.
00:50They're emptying out insane asylums.
00:53A step above a mental institution, worse, bigger, bigger problems.
00:57According to PolitiFact, there is no basis for this claim apart from an anonymous source
01:01cited by the conservative website Breitbart in 2022.
01:05The mental institution aspect may stem from a misunderstanding of the word asylum in relation to immigration.
01:10Despite these controversial statements, Trump has been performing relatively strongly with
01:14Latinos by Republican standards.
01:16A New York Times Siena College poll from this month found him with 37% support from Hispanic-likely
01:21voters against Vice President Harris' 56%.
01:25We've done really well with the Hispanic people, as you know.
01:29No Republican has ever done like this, and most people haven't.