Fmr. Miss USA Defends Trump: This Is About Border Security

The Donald Trump-Miss USA controversy nexus, which now involves NBC, Univision, a $500 million lawsuit, the Mexican government, and potentially on some level immigration policy, took another turn Wednesday morning as a former Miss USA defended Trump against the networks’ decisions not to broadcast the Miss USA Pageant.

“I think he’s made it very clear he supports the Mexican people, he loves the Mexican people,” Chelsea Cooley Altman, Miss USA 2005, told CNN’s New Day. “When you look at everything he spoke about, he’s talking about a greater issue here. The issue is border patrol. He has no problem with anyone wanting to come and immigrate to America that wants to live out the American dream and make America great again as what he is so focused on in this presidential run…If he stands behind something he believes in, should he apologize?”

In case you were wondering, yes, Make America Great Again is Trump’s campaign slogan, and Trump claims to have invented it. How convenient that Altman would have had that phrase handy.

Watch below, via CNN:

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