President Donald Trump said that he may reopen previously shuttered “insane asylums” as part of his crime crackdown.

Reporter Reagen Reese floated the idea during a Monday interview with Trump for the Tucker Carlson-founded news outlet Daily Caller. “Would you be open to the government reopening insane asylums for people with serious mental illness?” Reese asked. “Yeah, I would,” Trump responded.

“What happened is states like New York and California that had them, New York had a lot of them. They released them all into society because they couldn’t afford it, you know, it’s massively expensive,” Trump said.

“They were all over New York,” Trump added, “They had a place, Creedmoor, they had a lot of them, Bellevue, and they were closed by a certain governor. And I remember when they did,

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