Eva Longoria takes down Trump with a lesson in history at the DNC

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2016, saw waves of support for the running Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Several Democratic leaders tore into Republican nominee Donald Trump's views, calling them divisive and dangerous. This included Trump's widely criticised comments calling Mexican immigrants "rapists" and "criminals" and also his plans of building a wall along the Mexican border. 

Actress Eva Longoria who has Latin-American roots also took to the stage to deride Trump. "Like many of you, this election is very personal to me,” Longoria said, taking Trump's comment head-on, during the first night of the DNC. “I’m from a small town in South Texas and if you know your history, Texas used to be part of Mexico. Now, I’m ninth generation American. My family never crossed a border, the border crossed us."

She went on to add,"So when Donald Trump calls us criminals and rapists, he’s insulting American families. My father is not a criminal or rapist, in fact, he’s a United States veteran. When Trump cruelly mocked a disabled reporter, he was also mocking my special-needs sister Lisa and many like her. When he said that a wife who works is a very dangerous thing, he not only insulted me, he insulted my mother who worked as a special-education teacher for 40 years and raised four children while being a wife."

Pointing out the diversity amongst the speakers at DNC, she ended her address talking about why she decided to support Hillary Clinton.

Watch the speech here: