Trump on Recent Domestic Terror Attacks: “Their Genetics Are Not Exactly Your Genetics”
President Donald Trump weighed in on domestic terror incidents involving a synagogue attack in Michigan, an IED placed at the mayor’s home in New York City, and a shooting at Old Dominion University during an interview on Brian Kilmeade’s radio show.
BRIAN KILMEADE, HOST: They attack a synagogue, they plow into a building of a preschool entrance where 140 kids are inside. Thankfully, some great security forces were able to take this guy down. It looks like he’s from Dearborn, Michigan and it looks like his car’s registered to someone in Lebanon. What are your thoughts about this? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, it’s been going on for a long time, it’s a disgrace. There’s six, they’re really demented people. And has been going on for a long time. They come into the country, they sneak in. You know, we have a solid border now, we have a border that’s 100%. Nine months, nobody coming in. But they came in and they came in a lot through Biden and they came in through other presidents, frankly, and it’s a, it’s a disgrace. But what we took in over the last four years, four years proceeding my take in, because we, we, we had that border pretty well wrapped up within three months, but it, and he could have done the same thing. We took in 25 million people and many of those people came from bad places. So it’s, it’s a shame when you hear about these things, it’s a shame. Very sad. KILMEADE: So then you see the attack in, in, in New York City. A 17 or an 18-year-old, 18 and 19-year-old decide to make an IED and just throw it towards Gracie Mansion and right get a piece of paper and say, “Yeah this is about ISIS.” I mean, how do you get into the mindset of this? How do you [Inaudible] stop it? TRUMP: They’re sick people and a lot of them were let in here, they shouldn’t have been let in. Others, they’re just bad, they go bad. Something wrong, there’s something wrong there. KILMEADE: So – TRUMP: The genetics are not exactly – KILMEADE: Well – TRUMP: They’re not exactly your genetic[s]. It’s one of those problems, Brian. It’s a, it’s a terrible thing and it happens, and it happens, and it happens too often.
