Trump Press Conference Video Still Bedevils Ramos

MRC Latino | March 27, 2018
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CHRISTINE AMANPOUR, HOST AMANPOUR ON PBS: Ramos, perhaps America’s most influential Spanish-language journalist, knows a lot about activism. Here he is at Donald Trump’s campaign event in August of 2015.

DONALD TRUMP: Who’s, next? Yeah, please.

JORGE RAMOS, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Mr. Trump, I have a question.

DONALD TRUMP: Excuse me, sit down, you weren’t called, sit down.

JORGE RAMOS: No, I am an American citizen.

DONALD TRUMP: Sit down, sit down.

JORGE RAMOS: As a U.S. citizen I have the right to ask a question.

DONALD TRUMP: No you don’t, you haven’t been called.

JORGE RAMOS: I have the right to ask the question, and this is the question.

DONALD TRUMP: You haven’t been called…

JORGE RAMOS: No, this is the question. You cannot deport 11 million people, you cannot build a 1,900 mile wall, you cannot deny citizenship to children in this country. And with those ideas…

DONALD TRUMP: Sit down, you weren’t called.

JORGE RAMOS: I’m a reporter, and don’t touch me sir. Don’t touch me sir. You cannot touch me.

KEITH SCHILLER, DIRECTOR OF SECURITY, TRUMP CAMPAIGN: Please don't disrupt, you're being disruptive.

JORGE RAMOS: I have the right to ask a question.

KEITH SCHILLER: Yes, in order.

DONALD TRUMP: Yes, go ahead...

CHRISTINE AMANPOUR: So, Ramos has written a book about what it means to be an immigrant in America. It's called Stranger, The Challenge Of A Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era, and he is joining me know from Miami. Jorge, welcome to the program. It is extraordinary to introduce you with that piece of videotape and that reminder of what happened a couple of years ago. Um, your thoughts now seeing that he just didn’t want to answer your question, even before you started with the statement.

JORGE RAMOS: Well yes, it was, I have to admit it was a long question, but you’ve been to many press conferences and not all the time you wait for your turn.