CNN Host Confronts Katrina Pierson on Trump's Racial Attack on ‘Mexican’Judge Gonzalo Curiel

‘But this judge isn’t Mexican, He’s American’: CNN host rips Trump's Spox Katrina Pierson for ‘Mexican’ racial attack on Trump U judge.
Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson insisted on Monday that she and her boss continue to “believe” that a federal judge in the Trump University case is Mexican even though he is a U.S. citizen.

At a rally last week in California, Trump attacked Judge Gonzalo Curiel for hearing a class-action lawsuit against Trump University, which former students have called a scam.

“I think Judge Curiel should be ashamed of himself. I think it’s a disgrace that he’s doing this,” Trump said. “The judge, who happens to be, we believe, Mexican…I think the Mexicans are going to end up loving Donald Trump.”

On Monday, CNN host Alisyn Camerota called out Pierson for attacks on the judge’s ethnicity.

“Katrina, ‘We believe he’s Mexican,’ what is that?” Camerota asked.
“But this judge isn’t Mexican,” Camerota shot back. “He was born here. He’s American.”

“I’m not saying he’s Mexican,” Pierson insisted.

“But Mr. Trump is saying he’s Mexican,” Camerota pressed.

“He says we ‘believe’,” Pierson insisted.

“But what’s the point of that? Why is he going after an ethnicity?” Camerota wondered.

Pierson again blamed the “anti-Trump protests with their Mexican flags and La Raza.”

“And this judge is connected to that,” she said.

“Okay, but you recognize — you’re saying Mr. Trump was wrong,” Camerota observed.

“I don’t know if he’s Mexican,” Pierson quipped. “I don’t know his heritage or his descent.”

“Okay, for the record, he’s American,” the CNN host said, concluding the interview.

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