On this day in 2015, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos partook in one of the landmark media moments of the Trump Era: his expulsion from then-candidate Donald Trump’s press conference in Dubuque, Iowa. But, as Ramos himself would later admit, the whole thing was manufactured.
Watch as Ramos admits as much to anyone with a byline or a microphone, usually while promoting the book he would later write about the incident (click “expand” for transcript):
PETER MANSBRIDGE, CBC: Why did you make the decision that you had to go to Iowa to confront Donald Trump?
JORGE RAMOS, UNIVISION: As you know, television… television doesn’t happen. Television is produced. It is created. And, so we brought three cameras, we brought microphones, and our purpose was to talk to Donald Trump. And confront Donald Trump. That was the purpose. As a journalist.
MANSBRIDGE: A…
