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Trump Faces Off With Univision Journalist

<p>Leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a press conference in Dubuque&comma; Iowa Tuesday evening&period; Despite the record setting audience and discussion of&nbsp&semi;an array of issues&comma; the main highlight came from a hostile interruption from Univision reporter Jorge Ramos&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After interrupting Donald Trump with a loaded barrage of questions without being called on&comma; Jorge Ramos was escorted from the news conference&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;You haven&rsquo&semi;t been called&comma;&rdquo&semi; Trump retorted to Ramos who insisted he had a right to ask a question&period; &ldquo&semi;Go back to Univision&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;He was totally out of line last night&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Trump told TODAY&&num;8217&semi;s Matt Lauer&period; &&num;8220&semi;I was asking and being asked a question from another reporter&period; I would have gotten to &lpar;Ramos&rpar; very quickly&period; He stood up and started ranting and raving like a madman&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Never shy from accepting a challenge&comma; Donald Trump later would invite the journalist back to the room&comma; sparring over the topic of immigration for several minutes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ramos asked Trump how he would erect a 1900-mile long border&comma; to which Trump responded &&num;8220&semi;Can I tell you what&&num;8217&semi;s more complicated&quest; What&&num;8217&semi;s more complicated is building a building that&&num;8217&semi;s 95 stories tall&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a time where politicians have prepared answers for a chosen list of pre-arranged questions&comma; Donald Trump has proven to be able to think on the spot&comma; coming off confidently and direct&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a statement on Tuesday after the exchange&comma; Fusion CEO and Univision head of news Isaac Lee said&colon; &ldquo&semi;We&rsquo&semi;d love for Mr&period; Trump to sit down for an in-depth interview with Jorge to talk about the specifics of his proposals&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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