‘It’s Silence of the Lambs!’ Trump Rages Over ‘Millions’ of Hannibal Lecters Being ‘Deposited’ In U.S. From Foreign ‘Insane Asylums’ In CPAC Migrant Rant

Former President Donald Trump took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday, where the border crisis and “migrant crime” were some of the main talking points of his keynote address to the capacity crowd.

Trump said that when he becomes president again, he will shepherd in the largest deportation of migrants in American history. He claimed that countries like Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico were sending the likes of bloodthirsty cannibal Hannibal Lecter from “Silence of the Lambs” into the U.S. from their “insane asylums.”

“We have millions and millions of people, and they came from prisons and jails. They came from mental institutions and insane asylums,” said Trump. He then clarified, “No, they’re not the same.”

“An insane asylum is a mental institution on steroids, okay?” said Trump. “It’s ‘Silence of the Lambs’, okay?. You know that. Hannibal Lecter! They’re all being deposited into our country.”

“We’ve never seen anything like this,” said Trump of the migrant crisis.

It’s migrant crime. It’s a new category of crime. And I wanted to call it Biden Migrant Crime. But it’s too long. So we just call it migrant crime. We have a new category, Migrant Crime.

And it’s going to be more severe than violent crime and crime as we knew it, because we have millions and millions of people, and they came from prisons and jails. They came from mental institutions and insane asylums. No, they’re not the same. An insane asylum is a mental institution on steroids, Ok? It’s “Silence of the Lambs,” Ok?. You know that. Hannibal Lecter! They’re all being deposited into our country.

And then you have terrorists, and then you have drugs, and then you have human traffickers, and they’re coming over at levels never seen before. We’ve never seen anything like this.

On the final day of the conference, CPAC played host to a variety of right-wing celebrities in addition to Trump, such as Kari Lake, Mike Lindell, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Lou Dobbs, who all predicted doomsday scenarios of a broken U.S. unless Trump is re-elected in November.

Watch the clip above via CPAC.

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