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Stephen Colbert Chews Apart Trump's Brazenly Weird New Claim

The "Late Show" host fact-checked the former president on cannibals.
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Stephen Colbert said Donald Trump has put a new spin on his usual fear-mongering about immigrants. 

The former president this week claimed that immigrants are coming from “mental institutions and insane asylums” and that Hannibal Lecter ― the cannibalistic serial killer from “Silence of the Lambs” ― is entering the country. 

“Did you ever hear of Hannibal Lecter? They’re being dropped into our country. Hannibal Lecter is coming in, lots of them!” Trump told a crowd in New Hampshire. 

Colbert mockingly agreed. 

“Yes. Hordes of Spanish-speaking Hannibal Lecters are skydiving into our country to steal jobs from hard-working American cannibals,” Colbert said. “I’m sorry, I think your liver should be eaten with fava beans and a nice Chianti, not mole sauce and a Dos Equis.”  

See more in his Wednesday night “Late Show” monologue: 

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