Ron Paul Storms Out Of CNN Interview After Racist Newsletter Questions

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Fox News reports that Ron Paul walked out of an interview with CNN’s Gloria Borger after she asked the candidate about the political newsletters he published in the 1990s that contained racist content:

Borger asked the Congressman if he had ever read the newsletters. “Did you ever object when you read them?”

“Why don’t you go back and look at what I said yesterday on CNN and what I’ve said for 20 something years. 22 years ago? I didn’t write them, I disavow them, That’s it.”

“But you made money off them,”

“I was still practicing medicine,” Paul responded. “That’s probably why I wasn’t a very good publisher, I had to make a living.”

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