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Opinion: When Trump talks 'bad genes' and 'racehorse theory,' he is telling us who he is

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Jackie Calmes: When Trump talks bad genes’ and racehorse theory, he is telling us who he is.

She says Trump ’s fascination with genetics, especially his own “good genes” of the white European sort, has always been creepy .

Trump 's obsession with genes is disturbing enough for signaling his belief in the racist theory of eugenics, she says.

Calmes says Trump lies, and his lies are dangerous; he is chillingly replicating the lies that led to 2021 insurrection.

Jackie Calmes: If I subscribed to Trump 's beliefs, I guess I’d say it’s in his genes.

Trump, to an extent unseen in any president or aspirant in memory, divides Americans between us and them, she says.

She says he believes things like white people are smarter, and that "laziness is a trait in blacks" Calmes says Harris promises to be “a president for all Americans ”.

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