>On 1 July 2015, Trump called CNN to talk to host Don Lemon in order to clarify his comments on the rape question and to silence the controversy.
>Lemon asked The Donald, point blank: “Why did you have to say that they’re rapists, though, Donald?”
>“Oh, well if you look at the statistics of people coming…I didn’t say about Mexico…I say ‘the illegal immigrant’…If you look at the statistics on rape, on crime, on everything, coming in illegally into this country, they’re mindboggling. If you go to Fusion, you will see a story about eighty percent of the women coming in…I mean, you have to take a look at these stories.”
>Lemon then corrected The Donald and urged that a good portion of the rapes cited in those studies were cases of prostitution, as a quid pro quo, or else a capricious coyote’s ultimatum and that it was not fellow illegals planning to take up residence stateside who were raping 80% of the women. Lemon’s point was partly true but hard to chew as a flat fact. A proper journalist would have evaluated which part was true and which part was false, how valid the statistics were, and then left the popular outrage to the Left’s outrage machine.
>“That’s about women being raped, it’s not about criminals coming across the border or entering the country,” Lemon insisted as if the rapes were falling from the sky amongst a population of angels, and not linked to the complexities of the illegal immigrant black market.
>Trump, almost in disbelief, replied with the most comical reply in the history of the evening news:
>“Somebody’s doing the raping, Don. I mean, you know what, uh, it’s…I mean, somebody’s doing it…you think it’s women being raped…Well, who’s doing the raping? Who’s doing the raping? I mean, how can you say such a thing?”
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