A Hispanic woman whom Republican front-runner Donald Trump brought to the stage during a rally Thursday in Las Vegas heaped praises on him Friday and said that the businessman was "100 percent right" on his comments about Mexicans.
"He is our perfect man," Myriam Witcher, a naturalized American citizen from Columbia who now lives in Las Vegas, told Brooke Baldwin on CNN.
"Absolutely. Always I say he is our man," she told Baldwin. "Absolutely. Everything he said is absolutely right."
Trump brought Witcher, who told
The Las Vegas Sun that she waited five years for a visa to come to the United States, to the stage during his rally before 1,500 cheering supporters Thursday at the Mystere Theater at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino.
"I never met her before," Trump told the crowd. "I swear."
Witcher came onstage waving a copy of People magazine with the developer and his family on the cover, then declaring: "I am Hispanic. We're for Mr. Trump
... We love you! On the way to the White House."
Trump autographed the cover.
On Friday, Witcher told Baldwin that she had not been approached by the Trump campaign before the rally.
"Nobody," she said.
A campaign spokeswoman confirmed to Newsmax that no Trump representative had met Witcher in advance.
She called Trump a "very beautiful human being. Beautiful heart. A lot of love and compassion.
"I read his books, and his books are amazing," Witcher added, calling Trump "my best mentor in my personal life.
"I believe if every American, every person in the world reads his books, I believe America and the world will be in a good shape economically.
"But, unfortunately, people don't read," she said.
Witcher told Baldwin that she was not offended by the disparaging remarks Trump made at the outset of his campaign in June about Mexicans and illegal immigrants.
"It doesn't bother me at all. Mr. Trump, he is 100 percent right," she said.
"Nobody on this planet wants to say there are the weak parts in my country," Witcher added. "Nobody wants to say we have terrible criminals. We have problems with drugs. We have problems with a lot of bad things.
"Everybody wants to cover it up and say our country is beautiful. The food is wonderful, the people are beautiful — when ... so many people daily, they are scared just to go to the street after 6 p.m."