Donald Trump was holding a press conference in Dubuque, Iowa, on Tuesday when Univision anchor Jorge Ramos interrupted another reporter’s question to the Republican presidential candidate.
Trump: OK, who’s next? Yeah, please.
Ramos: Mr. Trump, I have a question…
Trump: Excuse me. Sit down. You weren’t called. Sit down! Sit down.
Ramos: No, I’m…
Trump: Sit down.
Ramos: I’m a reporter, an immigrant, and a U.S. citizen.
Trump: Sit down!
Ramos: I have the right to ask a question.
Trump: No you don’t. You haven’t been called.
Ramos: I have the right to ask a question.
Trump: Go back to Univision.
Security personnel escorted Mr. Ramos out of the press conference.
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Trump: You weren’t called.
Ramos: I’m a reporter and I have… Don’t touch me, sir. Don’t touch me, sir. You cannot touch me. I have the right to ask a question.
Security: Yes, in order of the questions.
Ramos was later allowed back into the room to comment on Trump’s immigration policy.
Trump: Good to have you back.
Ramos: Thank you very much.
Trump: OK
Ramos: So, so here’s the problem with your immigration plan. It’s full of empty promises. You’ll never deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. You cannot deny citizenship to the children of this country.
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Speaking to Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today Show, Trump said Ramos “was totally out of line last night”:
He was totally out of line last night. I was asking and being asked a question from another reporter. I would have gotten to him very quickly. And he stood up and started ranting and raving like a mad man.
Ramos quickly tweeted out a response:
I’m a reporter. My job is to ask questions. What’s “totally out of line” is to eject a reporter from a press conference for asking questions.
POLITICO reporter Marc Caputo tweeted this response about Ramos:
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This is bias: taking the news personally, explicitly advocating an agenda.
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