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On a Friday call to The Brian Kilmeade Show, President Donald Trump said some people are "bad" because of their genetics while discussing recent attacks, reviving a discredited eugenics idea with historical links to Nazi policies.

Trump told Brian Kilmeade that some people are "bad" because there is "something wrong" with their genetics while discussing recent attacks.
He said some perpetrators "should not have been let in," linking criminal acts to genetic explanations.
Eugenics is a widely disproven set of theories that claims some groups are genetically superior to others.
Eugenics was implemented by Nazi Germany through forced sterilizations and mass killings, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Trump has previously made similar comments and invoked the idea that immigrants are harming the country during his campaigns in 2016 and 2024.

Trump appears to endorse eugenics during Fox News call

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