Oh my. We do not need to be told he hates immigrants - his own words show that he demonizes them. I would not be surprised if Mr. Trump personally does not hate immigrants, but he obviously believes that his base does.
He has said that "undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” using language that is often employed by white supremacists.
We are not "told" that he said this - he actually said this.
And he has also said this:
My first day back at the White House, I will terminate every open-borders policy of the Biden administration, stop the invasion of our Southern border and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,
This is what is so pernicious about this issue. You can claim that the term "invasion" is not a fear-mongering distortion. But we all know what is going on - it is a carefully chosen word intended to wildly exaggerate the problem and appeal to xenophobic sentiments.
And Trump has also said this:
“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."
There is no debate: whether or not Mr. Trump actually believes what he is saying is, of course, hard to know. But, it is beyond above obvious, as the above examples show, that he is stooping to the worst kind of demonizing rhetoric to appeal to xenophobia in the American electorate.
His own words prove this - whether people lie about him or not.
