A reporter was apparently kicked out of Trump Tower for speaking Spanish
Freelance journalist Marcos Stupenengo was granted an audience with Donald Trump but promptly sent packing when the campaign heard him answer his telephone in Spanish, BuzzFeed reports.
Stupenengo was working on assignment for TV Azteca when he reportedly received a call while waiting to be shown in to see Trump. After he answered the call in Spanish, the campaign apparently informed him they had no interest in participating in his interview, a source told BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed additionally writes that Stupenengo "has green eyes and would appear to many as a non-Hispanic white male."
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Stupenengo did not answer BuzzFeed's request for comment other than to say that "after 13 years of journalism, worse things have happened to me."
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