That's a disingenuous transcript. "They're rapists" is much more likely to be, "their rapists". And it makes a big difference. (as in, "...they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, their rapists.")
In other words, they aren't sending their best, they are sending drug dealers, criminals, rapists, etc.
That's completely different than that transcript's implication, which would be like saying, "they aren't sending their best, they are sending their drug dealers, their criminals, and all of them are rapists as well."
Unless you aren't a native speaker, I'm inclined to believe that you are being willfully disingenuous by spreading that the latter was what he meant to say.
Trump has enough insanity that no one needs to make up stuff to make him look bad.
This is just like the other stupid "bigly" meme. Even linguists have had to weigh in to agree that he was saying "big league" not bigly. Again, his grammar and syntax is elementary enough that we don't have to make crap up.
No, you missed the point. They are sending drugs, crime, rapists; does not imply that everyone is a rapist. All it implies is that at least more than 1 rapist has come across the border illegally. Which is probably true.
> Unless you aren't a native speaker, I'm inclined to believe that you are being willfully disingenuous by spreading that the latter was what he meant to say.
I'm a native speaker but "they're" makes sense to me here?
> They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us.
The way I read it, at this sentence the first "they" refers to Mexico, while the second refers to the people who (illegally?) immigrated. He then says
This "they're" follows directly after and again refers to the immigrants because they are "bringing" drugs and not "sending" drugs, or at least that was my interpretation.
Well, I'm not 100% sure I understand what you are saying, but I believe you are saying that "they're rapists" makes sense if you assume that the verb is dropped. If that's the case then yes, it could be:
"They're [sending their] rapists."
Which is essentially the same meaning as ", their rapists".
But the ridiculous interpretation that many people have extrapolated from "they're rapists". Is, "They [are all] rapists. Which is absurd, even for Trump.
I agree on the bigly-level stuff (it's very similar to the facile jokes about George W. Bush being dumb) but this quote specifically is clear cut. Of course Trump is not calling Mexico/Mexicans rapists (though he does disparage Mexico shortly before it) but he was calling most Mexican-Americans criminals and rapists: since the ones Mexico sends into the US are "their rapists" and Mexico isn't "sending their best", it stands to reason that the resulting Mexican-American population, for Trump, is overwhelmingly comprised of criminals and rapists.
You're still parsing it incorrectly even if this speech wasn't about the wall and illegal immigration.
"their rapists" only means that some subset are rapists because it's a category included with others. There is no hint that all of the bad ones he is referring to are rapists.
That's completely different than that transcript's implication, which would be like saying, "they aren't sending their best, they are sending their drug dealers, their criminals, and all of them are rapists as well."
Unless you aren't a native speaker, I'm inclined to believe that you are being willfully disingenuous by spreading that the latter was what he meant to say.
Trump has enough insanity that no one needs to make up stuff to make him look bad.
This is just like the other stupid "bigly" meme. Even linguists have had to weigh in to agree that he was saying "big league" not bigly. Again, his grammar and syntax is elementary enough that we don't have to make crap up.