Despite CNN’s claims that President Trump is attacking Mexicans and other immigrants, one Hispanic man set them straight on national television. And he did it while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.
Ray Baca and his organization, Border Hispanics for Trump, were the subject of a Dec. 26 CNN piece on Hispanics who support President Trump.
The network’s bias came out in full force in the first few seconds of the report, when reporter Erica Hill claimed that President Trump “launched his 2016 campaign with an attack on immigrants from Mexico, saying Mexico isn’t sending their best and infamously calling Mexicans ‘rapists.’”
After Hill’s introduction, the report showed Baca working to win over Hispanic voters in El Paso, Texas.
CNN reporter Nick Valencia asked Baca why he was working for the re-election of Donald Trump, and the 65-year-old man explained that the president’s conservative values are closely aligned with his own.
Valencia pushed Baca on how he can still support a president who is seen “as saying racist things against the Latino community.”
He responded, “I disagree. I really don’t think he’s said things that are racist.”
Immediately after Baca’s comment, CNN spliced in footage of the aftermath of the El Paso mass shooting in August, with Valencia explaining how the massacre was a racist attack against Latinos.
Baca wasn’t convinced that was even slightly President Trump’s fault.
“I just don’t think you can hold a president, or President Trump in particular, responsible for the actions of a single madman,” he told Valencia.
CNN also found another Hispanic voter, 29-year-old Blanca Binkley, who confirmed she was a Trump supporter.
Although Binkley was born in Mexico, she is now a U.S. citizen who cast her first vote in a presidential election for Trump in 2016. She said she plans to vote for Trump again in 2020.
Baca and Binkley aren’t alone in their support of the president, either.
One poll found that half of Hispanics approve of President Trump’s performance in office, blowing a massive hole in CNN’s narrative.
