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Chauncey DeVega

Trump threatens a migrant "fight league"

Donald Trump is a master propagandist. He is also a juggernaut who will not willingly stop in his quest to be America’s first dictator. Following his historic felony conviction, Trump has only escalated his vile behavior. Last weekend, Donald Trump gave a series of especially sinister speeches. Not content with the Big Lie and his usual demagoguery, the ex-president added a new dimension to his obsessions with violence and suffering when he suggested that non-white migrants and refugees should be put in a special mixed martial arts league for his and his MAGA supporters entertainment:

I said, 'Dana [referring to Dana White, CEO of UFC], I have an idea. Why don't you set up a migrant league of fighters and have your regular league of fighters. And then you have the champion of your league – these are the greatest fighters in the world – fight the champion of the migrants. I think the migrants’ guy might win, that’s how tough they are.

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