Trump On Retweet About Jeb’s Wife: ‘No, I Don’t Regret It’

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Donald Trump said he doesn’t regret retweeting a racially charged remark about fellow 2016 candidate Jeb Bush’s wife, in a sit-down interview with CNN Wednesday.

Although Trump said he didn’t authorize retweeting the message — “#JebBush has to like the Mexican illegals because of his wife” — he doesn’t regret sending the message, saying he believes Columba Bush’s Mexican heritage influences his stance on immigration.

“No, I don’t regret it,” Trump told Anderson Cooper. “If my wife were from Mexico, I think I would have a soft spot for people from Mexico. … I’ve heard she’s a lovely woman, by the way.”

Trump also responded to a Washington Post report earlier this week that despite his remarks that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are ruining the country, there are undocumented workers on the construction site of Trump’s new luxury hotel in DC.

Trump said he only wished the Post had named names so that he could fire any undocumented workers.

“I wish they would give us some names, we would get them out immediately,” he said.

Although he shifted some blame on the project’s contractor for hiring the workers on site, Trump said the buck “absolutely” stops with him and that he “can’t guarantee” all workers on his projects have legal immigration status.

The full interview airs tonight on CNN at 8 p.m. EDT.

Watch the full clip over at CNN.

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  1. As the ship sinks, the captain yells “I regret nothing!”

  2. Someone needs to ask Trump if he regrets anything he’s ever done.

    Remember when George W was thrown by this question?

    It’s a serious question that reveals a great deal about one’s character.

  3. You should see Faux News right now haha. They’re of course leveraging the recent San Francisco boardwalk shooting to rile the Teatroll Troops about the dire threat of criminal illegal aliens running rampant among us and you can tell within like 5 seconds of looking at the comment section that the Teatrolls are ready to fuck Derpy Donald’s toupee into a rotten mess over his ridiculous rhetoric. They’re convinced he’s the frontrunner now.

    Granted, it’s not exactly a scientific polling sample, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that Viagra/Cialis sales dropped south of the Mason-Dixon after Derpy Donald began his racist rampage.

  4. Please proceed, Donald.

  5. Trump said he only wished the Post had named names so that he could fire any undocumented workers.

    “I wish they would give us some names, we would get them out immediately,” he said.

    Dude, that’s your fucking job – not the WaPost’s. Do it – I double-dare you.

    (Are we sure this Trump fella isn’t an undercover Democratic operative sent on a mission to smear sticky poop in the face of the GOP?).

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