Wall Street Journal
By Heather Haddon
August 25, 2015
Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump got into a testy exchange Tuesday
night in Iowa with Univision anchor Jorge Ramos over the details of his
plan to deport
illegal immigrants.
Mr.
Ramos, who hadn’t been called on to ask a question, was ejected from a
press conference held before a rally in Dubuque,Iowa. Mr. Trump scolded
him: “Sit down please.
You weren’t called.”
The
two tried to talk over each other until Mr. Trump’s security detail
escorted Mr. Ramos out. When asked by other reporters about Mr. Ramos’s
removal, Mr. Trump said
he was out of order.
“He can’t just stand up and scream,” Mr. Trump said. “He’s obviously a very emotional person.”
Mr.
Ramos eventually was allowed to return to the news conference, and
again asked about the legality of Mr. Trump’s push to repeal the
constitutional right for the children
of undocumented immigrants to gain U.S. citizenship.
Mr.
Trump complained about undocumented women who are “getting ready to
have a baby, she crosses the border for one day, all of sudden for the
next 80 years” the U.S.
must take care of this person as a citizen. He also said that “gangs”
in several cities were made up of illegal immigrants.
The
billionaire real estate developer and TV personality said his proposal
to deport some 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.
will be done in “a very
humane fashion.”
“I have a bigger heart than you do,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Ramos.
The
boisterous exchange marked another remarkable moment in Mr. Trump’s
quixotic run for president. Mr. Trump is continuing to dominate his
Republican rivals in many polls,
and on Tuesday night addressed a crowd of more than 1,000 supporters
gathered at the Grand River Center in Dubuque.
During
an hour-long rally, Mr. Trump took swipes at his competitors,
particularly Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio for being two Florida lawmakers
who were allies but are now
competing against each other for the nomination. Mr. Trump said that he
found fault with the two treating each other in a friendly fashion when
sharing the same stage.
He also mocked New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s embrace of President Barack Obama after superstorm Sandy hit the region in 2012.
“I’ve
watched these two guys and they are hugging, and they are kissing and
they are holding each other, very much actually like Chris Christie did
with the president,”
Mr. Trump said to laughter. “I’m only kidding.”
Mr.
Trump was introduced at the rally by Sam Clovis, a well-known state
Republican strategist who was serving as former Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s
Iowa chairman until Monday.
Mr. Clovis announced he will now work as Mr. Trump’s national campaign
co-chairman and senior policy adviser.
“I
had the opportunity to look at other situations and this is a situation
that presented itself. I’m very happy and very proud to be here,” Mr.
Clovis said.
Mr.
Clovis said Monday that he hadn’t heard from Mr. Perry’s campaign for
president in sometime, and that he decided to move on. Mr. Perry’s
campaign earlier this month
stopped paying some of its staffers after it reported an unimpressive
fundraising total earlier this year.
Over
the course of the 30-minute press conference Tuesday, Mr. Trump said
that he loved Evangelical Christians and that he doesn’t read speeches
because talking without
notes was “much easier.” He said that he’ll build “a wall with a big
beautiful door” across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Mr. Trump said he would continue to self-finance his campaign and that he receives an income of $500 million a year.
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