El Paso mayor says President Trump called him a RINO while visiting grieving city
he mayor of El Paso, Texas, said after he corrected President Donald Trump about crime statistics in his city, the president called him a "RINO," a pejorative nickname that means "Republican in Name Only."
Mayor Dee Margo told PBS's "Frontline" in an interview published Wednesday that Trump made those comments in a private conversation they had while the president was in El Paso last week to pay respects after a mass shooting that killed 22 people and injured dozens more.
"He said, 'You're a RINO,' and I said, 'No sir, I'm not a RINO, I simply corrected the misinformation you were given by our attorney general, and that's all I did'," Margo recounted.
Earlier this year, Margo, who was elected El Paso's mayor in 2017 after winning a runoff against another Republican, pushed back against claims made by Trump to justify his border wall demands. Trump, during the State of the Union in February, said El Paso had one of the highest rates of violent crime in the country but that after construction of border fencing it was now one of the safest.
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(Laredo Morning Times)
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