Donald Trump Testifies That His Campaign Speech Calling Mexicans “Rapists” Was Long-Planned

Politico reports:

When Donald Trump used his presidential campaign announcement speech to rail against Mexican immigrants as rapists and sources of other crimes, he’d planned the verbal fusillade in advance but hadn’t discussed it with anyone, the GOP nominee testified in a closed-door deposition last month.

Trump’s reflections on his anti-immigrant rant came as he was pulled off the campaign trail on June 16 to testify in one of a pair of lawsuits he filed against celebrity chefs who backed out of deals to establish restaurants at the hotel he plans to open later this year in Washington’s historic Old Post Office building.

Under questioning by an attorney for chef Geoffrey Zakarian, Trump said he’d thought out his polarizing comments on Mexicans and other immigrants in advance, but hadn’t scripted those remarks.