Trump expects a ‘bloody story’ on deportations in second term

As brutal as Donald Trump’s family-separation policy was during his presidency, the Republican hasn’t ruled out a sequel in a possible second term.

In fact, as recently as Friday, the GOP nominee’s running mate, JD Vance, also hedged on whether to expect another round of family separations if voters return Trump to power.

But in case that weren’t quite enough, it was something the Republican presidential hopeful said a day later that was every bit as jarring. As USA Today’s Rex Huppke noted in his latest column:

"At his weekend rally in Wisconsin, Trump brought up his sadistic plan to deport millions of immigrants, and he spun a dizzyingly dishonest tale about immigrants: “In Colorado they’re so brazen they’re taking over sections of the state.

And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story."

It’s worth emphasizing for context that the GOP candidate was referring to a bizarre claim about an apartment complex in Colorado — a story that, as my MSNBC colleague

Ja’han Jones recently explained

, has already been debunked.