Donald Trump has made several previously broadly encompassing negative statements about Hispanic people. Under any circumstances, it would be difficult to escape this reputation.
His statement that you refer to was: "We have people coming into the country -- or trying to come in, we're stopping a lot of them -- but we're taking people out of the country, you wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals."
That this statement was specifically referring to MS-13 and not all undocumented immigrates was made after the fact. Unlike John Kelly's statement that "the vast majority of the people that move illegally into United States are not bad people. They're not criminals. They're not MS-13." there was not a distinction made between MS-13/ other violent criminals and people who try to gain entry to the US for a better life within the talk itself. Sure, you can say it was just an honest oversight on Trump's part. Still, without anything specifying who he was referring to outside of "people coming into the country" and no exclusionary caveats, it is extremely easy to read that statement on it's own as saying he called all undocumented immigrants as criminals and animals. How you can arrive at "Logic dictates that Regressives – not Donald Trump – view all Hispanics as violent criminals." from this is beyond me.
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