Fusion
By Tamara Weston
August 26, 2015
Fusion’s
Jorge Ramos appeared on Fox News Channel’s The Kelly File Wednesday
evening to talk about his forced removal from Donald Trump’s press
conference in Dubuque,
Iowa on Tuesday. Ramos went to ask Trump about his immigration
proposals, and specifically, how he plans on deporting 11 million
undocumented immigrants.
“The
only thing that I wanted to do was to ask a question,” Ramos told host
Megyn Kelly. “He tried to silence me and in this country you cannot do
that. I’m a citizen,
I’m an immigrant, I’m a reporter. And I have the right in this country
to ask any question I want, to whomever I want.”
The
incident was caught on camera and immediately went viral. Not only did
we get to see Trump snap at Ramos to, “Sit down. Sit down. Sit dowwwwn,”
followed by a security
guard grabbing the journalist’s arm to escort him out of the room, but a
different video soon surfaced of an exchange in the hallway outside the
press conference between Ramos and a Trump supporter, who told the
veteran journalist to, “Get out of my country.”
Kelly said since the press conference Trump has suggested Ramos was looking for a confrontation, which Ramos denied.
“Two
reporters before me asked their questions and then I said I have a
question about immigration and nobody else said anything,” he said. “He
didn’t like the question,
and then he called on another reporter trying to make sure that I would
stop.”
Trump,
however, stands by his actions. On Wednesday morning he told TODAY’s
Matt Lauer that Ramos was “ranting and raving like a mad man” and that
he was “totally, absolutely
out of line.”
“I’ve
been a journalist for thirty years, and I’ve never been ejected from
any press conference anywhere in the world,” Ramos told Kelly. “Those
are the things that you
see in dictatorships, not in the United States.”
Kelly
asked, “Can you understand Trump’s side of it? Which is, ‘This is not
the outlet I want to take these questions from because their mind is
made up about me.’”
Ramos
responded by saying Latinos are the fastest growing population of the
electorate in the country. “He is talking about 60 million Latinos that
will go to the polls
and might decide the next election,” the Fusion and Univision anchor
said. “So it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t like it.”
Ramos continued:
There
are questions that need to be answered, and the problem is that he’s
not used to being questioned, he doesn’t like uncomfortable questions,
it happened with you,
it happened with your colleagues at Fox News. He hates it when he is
being confronted and we have to ask those questions. I think as
journalists we have to take a stand when it comes to racism,
discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorship, and human
rights. And when he’s expressing those really dangerous words, we have
to confront him. That is our job, to ask tough questions, even if he
doesn’t like them.
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