Trump aide Conway asks Jewish reporter, ‘What’s your ethnicity?’
Counselor to US president asks question in response to query over which nations Trump was referring to when he said American politicians should go back to their countries of origin
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NEW YORK — White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday she meant no disrespect in asking a reporter to reveal his ethnicity.
Her question came during an informal press gathering Tuesday when reporter Andrew Feinberg asked her about President Donald Trump’s tweets regarding freshmen Democratic congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar. Feinberg wondered what countries Trump was referring to when he suggested the American politicians should return to their countries of origin.
Conway replied, “What’s your ethnicity?”
After a brief pause, Feinberg asked why that was relevant to his question.
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— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 16, 2019
Conway, who said she is of Italian and Irish descent, tweeted later that she was trying to make the point that “We are all from somewhere else ‘originally.'”
Feinberg works for the technology publication Breakfast Media.
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