Trump takes bizarre turn as he ratchets up racist rhetoric against migrants

Republican presidential frontrunner compares undocumented migrants to Hannibal Lecter: We don't want 'em in this country'

Reaching for racist rhetoric bizarre even for him, Donald Trump compared undocumented migrants to the US to Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer and cannibal famously played by Sir Anthony Hopkins in the Oscar-winning 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs.

They're rough people, in many cases from jails, prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums," the former president and probable Republican presidential nominee claimed in an interview with Right Side Broadcasting Network on Monday. You know, insane asylums, that's Silence of the Lambs stuff.