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July 17, 2019

Kellyanne Conway to Reporter Asking About Trump's Racism: "What's Your Ethnicity?"
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White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, meanwhile, defended Trump's
racist tweets. When a reporter asked her about it, she responded by
asking him his ethnicity.

Andrew Feinberg: "If the president was not telling these four
congresswomen to return to their supposed countries of origin, to which
countries was he referring?"

Kellyanne Conway: "What's your ethnicity?"

Andrew Feinberg: ""Why is that relevant to this"-

Kellyanne Conway: "No, no, because I'm asking you a question. My
ancestors are from Ireland and Italy."

Andrew Feinberg: "Kellyanne, my own ethnicity is not relevant to the
question I'm asking you. I am asking you a"-

Kellyanne Conway: "No, no. It is, because you're asking about-he said
'originally.'"

That question was posed by White House reporter Andrew Feinberg. He
refused to answer Conway's question.


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