NPR’s Maria Hinojosa: Donald Trump Throwing an Entire Community ‘Under the Bus’

TODD: “Let's bring the panel back in. We got a little bit into Trump before. Maria, when you heard his rhetoric yesterday, your reaction?”

HINOJOSA: “Well, since we have Arthur here representing the Heart, I mean it's actually heartbreaking, right? Because it's like how are we moving forward as a country when Donald Trump is saying this about the fastest growing, one of the fastest growing demographic groups in our country? And I just begin to question. I put it in a historical context, who, with all due respect to our esteemed historian here. But, you know, I think back to-- because I did my research. I went back, and I was like, "What did FDR say about Japanese Americans?" He said they could never be trusted to own land, they could never be trusted to assimilate. What did Strom Thurman say in 1948, when he was running for president? That all of the bayonets of the U.S. Army will never be able to force Negroes into my home or my church. So if, and what I'm hearing from Latino leaders who I've been speaking to, if this was being said, these comments were being said about any other group, African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, the entire Republican Party, the entire Democratic Party, the entire media establishment would stand up and say, "No." And yet, the feeling is, "Well, you know, how much can we get away with insulting Mexicans, Latinos—“

TODD: “But Maria, let—“

HINOJOSA: “-- immigrants? How much can the Republican Party actually deal with this? And for Latinos, again, what I'm hearing is this is unacceptable. This is just unacceptable that is it to a point where you can throw an entire community under the bus. Having said that—“