Abby Phillip Stunned By GOP Lawmaker's Defense Of Trump's Vile Claim
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“Congresswoman, you’re saying that’s what you think he’s saying but he was pretty clear," the CNN anchor told New York Republican Nicole Malliotakis.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) on Monday tried to spin former President Donald Trump’s recent claim that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” and CNN’s Abby Phillip wasn’t having it.
“Well, I don’t think that’s what he was saying,” Malliotakis told Phillip. “When he said they are poisoning, I think he was talking with the Democratic policies. I think he was talking about open border policy.”
Trump’s full comment to a rally in New Hampshire was:
You know, when they let, I think the real number is like 15, 16 million people into our country, when they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done. They’ve poisoned... mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America. Not just in the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they’re coming into our country. From Africa, from Asia, all over the world. They’re pouring into our country. Nobody’s even looking at them. They just come in. The crime is going to be tremendous. The terrorism is going to be...
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