Posted on 07/02/2015 4:58:11 AM PDT by jimbo123
Following a week of controversial firings by everyone from NBC and Universal to Macy’s, Donald Trump appeared on “CNN Tonight” Wednesday and defended the comments that sparked the current racial firestorm.
Host Don Lemon suggested that Trump had misunderstood some of the articles he read on Fusion or the Huffington Post about Mexican immigrants, telling the presidential candidate: “That is about women being raped, it is not about criminals coming across the border and entering the country.”
“Somebody is doing the raping, Don. Are you saying its women being raped. Who is doing the raping?” Trump bluntly asked, referring to a 2014 Fusion article reporting that 80 percent of Central American migrants passing through Mexico are raped. “You have to stop illegal immigration coming through the border. If you don’t, you don’t have a country.”
Earlier in the interview, the TV mogul declared his love for the Mexican people — despite his declaration speech last week that slammed the country and said they sent over rapists, drug-runners and criminals. “I love the Mexican people. I’ve had a great relationship with Mexico,” Trump told Lemon.
“I am talking about illegal immigration, because it has to be stopped. It is killing our country. People are pouring over the borders. I guess some come from Mexico but they come from all over the world. They come from the Middle East, we don’t even know where they come from,” he marveled.
Looking dumbfounded, Lemon asked: “Why did you have to say they were rapists?”
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It connects rather nicely. If those girls weren’t coming over the border illegally, they’d be entering the US in a sustainable environment, or better yet, not entering the US at all. Stopping illegal entry into the US cuts off a source of sex-trade victims.
Trump cited reports that 80% of the women illegal immigrants are raped in their journey. So exactly who is raping them? It ain’t the US border patrol
Thanks, Hillary.
You missed the actual quote
It was about the epidemic of rape among the illegals themselves ( 80% of women coming here raped in the process) what it says about the men coming here
I agree with cutting off illegals crossing the border....SHEESH woman, wake up.
That's OK, we understand.
Well let’s see the statistics on Mexicans raping and being raped before Trump is written off. Even if ten rapist illegals get into our country...that is too much.
MSM can’t handle the truth. They are actively engaged in covering up the truth. When confronted with the truth they have no real response.
This is what all the GOP candidates should be doing which is speaking out and not backing down. Cruz and Trump are the only ones who will. The rest are pretty much white noise.
Oh give it up. Mexico is sending the DREGS of their society here. Nasty people. If the upper middle class was coming nobody would squawk about it.
Who commits all the crime and rapes in our citizen population? Answer: The DREGS of our society.
Don Lemon is going to need therapy after a truth session with Trump. LOL!
I remember Rush once musing that "if you don't have a border, you don't have a country". This needs to become a GOP motto. This is why I will never vote for an open-borders candidate under any circumstances.
It’s the amish, duh!
fine, ride your illegal rape issue all the way to the White House. I’m sure that will work.
(your lack of context, intentional on your part I would hope (as opposed to being too stupid to get my gist - which I don’t think you are) is frankly insulting.
Well you are easy to insult so I won’t take that as a compliment. Anytime you get called down for a wrong comment you get insulted.
The truth of the matter is that over 30% of the inmates currently in our prisons are illegal aliens. They commit a huge percentage of crime in proportion to their numbers here in our country. Its on TV every night. Robbery, murder, drugs and rape are high on the list. So Donald Trump is right on target. Its just not pretty to hear.
“You have to stop illegal immigration coming through the border. If you don’t, you don’t have a country.”
Amen to that!
I’ll type SLOOOWLY for you....I was all in favor of mentioning the OVERALL CRIME...that’s a valid and winning argument. His Todd Akin impression is a LOSING ARGUMENT. Maybe not above the 78 plus FR crowd, but sadly, others are allowed to vote.
RAPE is part of it and that is all Trump ever said. He listed the crimes and rape was one of the crimes. The MSM is just jumping on rape and trying to make Trump walk it back. He should not walk it back and is not walking it back. Its not a losing argument for all the women who have been raped by illegal aliens. It needed to be said and Trump said it. Deal with it. He is.
You have still yet to address my point......you are all estrogen dripping and emotional and have not YET even figured out what I was saying.
“You have to stop illegal immigration coming through the border. If you don’t, you don’t have a country.”
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Can’t stand Trump, but that is the plain truth there and needs to be repeated often by the candidate who wants my vote.
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