Thursday, March 28, 2024

Don Lemon to Donald Trump: ‘Did You Have to Say They Were Rapists?’ (Watch)

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*Donald Trump appeared on “CNN Tonight” Wednesday and defended his recent comments about Mexican immigration that sparked the current backlash.

Host Don Lemon suggested that Trump had misunderstood some of the articles he read on Fusion or the Huffington Post about Mexican immigrants when he said the country sent over rapists, drug-runners and criminals.

Referring to a 2014 Fusion article reporting that 80 percent of Central American migrants passing through Mexico are raped, Lemon told 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 asked. “You have to stop illegal immigration coming through the border. If you don’t, you don’t have a country.”

Lemon asked: “Why did you have to say they were rapists?”

“If you look at the statistics — I didn’t say that about Mexico — the illegal immigrants — on rape, on crime, on everything, coming into this country, they are mind boggling,” Trump responded. “If you look on Fusion — and you know who owns Fusion, Univision (the network that pulled out of the Miss Universe pageant earlier this week) — about 80 percent of the women, I’ve heard some horrible things.”

Earlier in the interview, the TV mogul declared his love for 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.”

Trump also addressed the issue of Macy’s cutting ties with him Wednesday, claiming they “folded under pressure, it’s not a big business for me, it’s very small,” he told Lemon. “[CEO] Terry Lundgren folded under pressure, he called me and said ‘Gee whiz, we’re under a lot of pressure.’

“That is the problem with our country. They all fold under pressure,” he added.

Watch below (The topic of Mexican immigration begins at 6:14.):

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