A campaign spokeswoman for Donald Trump said Tuesday said her candidate “single-handedly brought back freedom of speech” when he repeated a woman calling Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) a “pussy.”
In an appearance on CNN’s “At This Hour With Berman and Bolduan,” Katrina Pierson said there is “a full-blown assault” on freedom of speech in America.
“We have a full-blown assault on the First Amendment,” she said. “Donald Trump has single-handedly brought back freedom of speech. Yes, he did repeat what a voter said, but this is also the ‘leave free or die’ state.”
At a packed rally on Monday night, Trump repeated the words of a member of the audience who called Cruz “a pussy” for his opposition to legalizing waterboarding, which Trump supported at Saturday’s Republican presidential debate.
Trump defended using the vulgar word, saying that rally participants “were all just having fun.” He told Fox News that calling Cruz a pussy after a supporter did so was the equivalent of a retweet.
“This is where your rights are really important to you as an individual,” Pierson said on CNN. “The fact that Donald Trump is out there saying what he thinks and means is important.”
“He’s not testing messages like so many other candidates are. He’s just being himself with voters,” she added.
