Pressed by host Don Lemon on "CNN Tonight" Wednesday, Trump turned to cherry-picked news headlines to back up his June 16 remarks.
"You look at the statistics on rape, on crime, on everything coming in illegally into this country - they're mind-boggling!" Trump told Lemon, alluding to a 2014 Fusion story that claimed 80 percent of Central American women and girls crossing the border had been victims of rape.
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"Somebody's doing the raping, Don, presidential candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday on CNN. I mean, somebody's doing it. Women are being raped. Who's doing the raping? Who's doing the raping?"
Lemon pushed back. "That's about women being raped," he said. "It's not about criminals coming across the border and entering the country."
Trump, known for hard-hitting comebacks, delivered.
"Somebody's doing the raping, Don," Trump said by phone. "I mean, somebody's doing it. Women are being raped. Who's doing the raping? Who's doing the raping?"
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Don Lemon on CNN Tonight pressed Donald Trump on anti-immigration remarks Wednesday.
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The Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has been shedding corporate backers ever since his immigration dis.
The Republican presidential contender has been shedding corporate backers ever since his immigration dis.
Macy's is the latest to drop Trump, which pulled his clothing line Wednesday. Trump has also been "fired" by NBC and Univision announced it would not air the Miss USA pageant later this month.
He's the only person with a national platform who is telling the truth about the illegal invasion of this country.
Triple down.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. ~ H. L. Mencken