Fact check: Trump’s own campaign can’t find proof for his ‘mental institutions’ immigration story

Fact check: Trump’s own campaign can’t find proof for his ‘mental institutions’ immigration story

Washington, DC: Over the past two months, former President Donald Trump has claimed, at least three times, that the leaders of unidentified South American nations are purposefully emptying their "insane asylums" and "mental institutions" to send patients as migrants to the United States.

Trump has claimed in each version of the dramatic story that he recently read about a doctor at a mental institution in South America who said he used to be busy but now doesn't have any work to do because all of his patients have been released into the United States.

Trump stated in a speech to the National Rifle Association in the middle of April: I read a story not very far in the past where a man who deals with an enormous fragment of individuals in a psychological foundation in a South American country, a specialist, seemed like an extraordinary man really - he said he no longer has anything to do. He used to work seven days a week. He expressed, 'our patients have been all delivered into the US of America.'"

In a campaign speech delivered on Thursday in New Hampshire, Trump provided even more detail to the story: A psychologist was recently the subject of a story. Psychiatrist, or However, a psychologist who worked in South American mental hospitals. Furthermore, he said, 'I worked 24… ' - a decent man - he worked 24 hours daily dealing with deranged individuals. They questioned him as he sat there reading a newspaper and inquired about his activities. "I have no more work," he declared. Everyone has been permitted entry into the United States.' Is that true? We're doing this."