Trump Tells Reporter "Don't Be a Baby" When Asked About Claim Migrants Are "Hardened Criminals"

Source: Slate




By Daniel Politi Oct 20, 20182:57 PM


President Donald Trump dismissed as ridiculous a question from a female reporter who asked her about his claims that the migrants making their way to the United States are dangerous. During a roundtable with reporters, Trump answered questions about a large caravan heading to the border. “Some of these people are hard criminals. Hardened criminals—not good people,” Trump said. “These are some bad people coming through. These aren’t babies these aren’t little angels coming into our country.”

New York Times reporter Emily Cochrane asked Trump to explain himself: “What evidence do you have that these are hardened criminals that are coming to the United States?” Trump dismissed the question, as if the answer were obvious. “Oh please. Please, don’t be a baby, OK. Take a look, just take a look, look at what’s happening, look at the Mexican soldiers that are laying on the ground. Take a look. These are hardened—I didn’t say in all cases but in many cases these are hardened criminals. These are tough, tough people. And I don’t want them in our country and neither does our country want them in our country.”


Trump has turned the caravan that is largely made up of Hondurans into a rallying cry ahead of the midterm elections. In a tweet earlier in the week, Trump threatened to stop sending aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador if their governments didn’t prevent people from crossing into the United States. ...............................

Read more: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/dont-be-a-baby-trump-dismisses-question-from-reporter-asking-for-evidence-migrants-are-hardened-criminals.html

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I live for the day when all the reporters just walk out when Trump demeans one of them.

I have to wonder if he would have said such a demeaning comment to a male reporter????

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Heather Mallick
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21h21 hours ago

Replying to @ESCochrane @maggieNYT

Wondering if that was something Trump’s father ridiculed him with growing up: “Don’t be a baby”
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Peg Haws
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21h21 hours ago

Probably what he says to Eric
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Stephen K. Mitchell
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20h20 hours ago

Eric should listen
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18h18 hours ago

Maybe how Trump got hardened up at military school (pre bone spurs)? I want to know what his mother did to him bc something happened for him to despise women to the degree that he does.
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17h17 hours ago

Didn't his mom think he was evil?
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I'd forgotten about this.
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