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"They go crazy when I say the late, great Hannibal Lecter. They say, 'Why would he mention Hannibal Lecter? He must be cognitively in trouble.' No. These are real stories. Hannibal Lecter from ...

Former President Donald Trump told rally attendees on Wednesday that he keeps invoking the fictional Dr. Hannibal Lecter because “these are real stories.” Played by Anthony Hopkins in Silence ...

When he gets on the topic of migrants, he consistently ends up talking about Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the fictional cannibalistic murderer featured in thriller novels by author Thomas Harris and their ...

Part of that’s because he spends much of the movies talking to them behind glass. That might not sound scary, but when ...

Freelance Reporter Former President Donald Trump gave an explanation for why he continues to bring up Hannibal Lecter—the fictional serial killer played by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the ...

And then, somewhat deep into Trump’s stem-winder of a speech, he started talking about Hannibal Lecter. “The press is always on me, because I say this,” he began, in an aside. He knew it was ...

Actor Anthony Hopkins says he is “shocked and appalled” by former President Trump’s comments about fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter, whom Hopkins won an Oscar portraying in the 1991 ...

But it's the way he has upped the ante on the Hannibal Lecter comparison that has people commenting on it as an oddity. He said in Charlotte, N.C., last week that: "They go crazy when I say the ...

Donald Trump dismissed the idea he has cognitively declined seconds before claiming Hannibal Lecter and the film “Silence of the Lambs” are “real stories.” “You know, they go crazy when I say, ‘the ...