Trump to CNN reporter: ‘That’s a very rude question’
Dana Bash: Is your DC hotel opening free advertising?
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Donald Trump got defensive when CNN reporter Dana Bash asked him why he took time off the campaign trail to open his new hotel in Washington on Wednesday.
{mosads}Speaking to Bash after the grand opening of Trump International Hotel, the GOP presidential nominee dismissed her question about why he isn’t more concerned with campaigning in swing states.
“So to people who say you’re taking time out of swing states to go do this, you say?” Bash asked.
“I say the following: You have been covering me for the last — long time. I did yesterday eight stops and three major speeches, and I’ve been doing this for weeks straight,” Trump said.
“For you to ask me that question is actually very insulting because Hillary Clinton does one stop and then she goes home and sleeps. And yet you’ll ask me that question. I think that’s a very rude question, to be honest with you.”
Trump said he wanted to support his children at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, and he used the hotel as an example of how he can get things done under budget and ahead of schedule.
Trump will hit the campaign trail later Wednesday with a rally in North Carolina.
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