“Donald Trump has shown nothing but contempt for the Latino community throughout his presidential campaign, starting with calling Mexicans criminals and rapists and most recently saying he’s not interested in Spanish media coverage. Shockingly, none of this is enough for David Valadao, Jeff Denham, and Steve Knight to stand up to their Party’s presumptive nominee, and ultimately, their silence signals agreement with Trump’s offensive stance towards the Latino community,” said Javier Gamboa of the DCCC.
Buzzfeed: The Trump Campaign Told A Reporter They’re Not Interested In Spanish-Language Media Coverage
Marcos Stupenengo, a freelance correspondent working for TV Azteca, got an interview with Donald Trump — initially. He had no trouble when he asked to come to Trump Tower in New York on Monday to interview the bombastic presumptive Republican nominee.
But as he waited to conduct the interview, Stupenengo received a call, and began speaking in Spanish. That’s when the Trump campaign informed him they had no interest in taking part in an interview with him, according to a source with knowledge of the incident.
Reached for comment, Stupenengo forwarded the request to the network. “I can say that after 13 years of journalism worse things have happened to me,” he wrote in an email, declining to comment further.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Stupenengo, who is from Argentina, studied journalism there before going to school in New York. He has green eyes and would appear to many as a non-Hispanic white male.
A Spanish-speaking Secret Service agent with Trump apologized to Stupenengo, saying he was sorry and he didn’t know what was happening, the source with knowledge of the incident said.
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