Kellyanne Conway dismissed a Donald Trump supporter as “deplorable” on Sunday after video emerged of the man repeatedly shouting “Jew-S-A” at reporters during a campaign rally Saturday night.
“His conduct is completely unacceptable and does not reflect our campaign or our candidate,” Conway, who serves as Trump’s campaign manager, told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
“That man’s conduct was deplorable, and had I been there, I would have asked security to remove him immediately,” she added. “Clearly, he doesn’t speak for the campaign or the candidate, and what he had to say was disgusting.”
The man captured on video had launched into the anti-Semitic chant while other rally attendees were chanting “U-S-A.” In the now viral video, he can be seen leaning over the barricade in which members of the press are kept during Trump’s rallies and shouting directly at reporters.
So this just happened near the press pen at Trump's Phoenix rally. Man chanting "Jew.S.A.!" pic.twitter.com/DpG9G6BtqO— Ashley Killough (@KilloughCNN) October 29, 2016
Despite admonishing the unidentified man, Conway pushed back on the idea that Trump supporters are more likely to display bigoted, racist or sexist behavior than voters who back Clinton.
“I hope you’ve been to Trump rallies and I hope that you’ve seen the tens of thousands. I mean, he’s had over half a million people easily, I think in excess of that. These are U.S.A.-loving Americans,” she told Tapper after he claimed “there are a lot of anti-Semites and racists and misogynists who support the Trump candidacy.”
“Don’t besmirch the good name of the tens of thousands, the millions of Trump supporters,” Conway shot back.
