Jeb Bush slammed Donald Trump on Tuesday after the presumptive Republican nominee released a monumental statement discussing his attacks against a federal judge over his Mexican heritage.
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Much of the discussion focused on Trump, who has faced a barrage of criticism after stating that U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who oversees a lawsuit against Trump University, could not be impartial because he is “Mexican” and “I want to build a wall”. The Manhattan billionaire said Curiel can not fairly preside over a civil case involving his now-defunct for-profit real estate school, Trump University, because he is of Mexican descent and Trump is “building a wall” along the US/Mexico border if elected in the fall.
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday offered a particularly harsh condemnation of Trump’s words, calling them “sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment”. The billionaire now says he does not feel that a person’s heritage can make them incapable of being impartial.
Mark Kirk, a Republican senator from IL, broke ranks and said he was un-endorsing Trump, calling his remarks “dead wrong” and “un-American”.
Mark Kirk of IL withdrew his support from the presumptive nominee.
He said he “cannot and will not support” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. He also called out Trump’s recent decision to question whether a Hispanic judge could fairly preside over a legal case against Trump University.
“I can not and will not support my party’s nominee for president”, Kirk said. Instead, Trump’s comments along with past attacks on Hispanics, women and “the disabled like me, make it certain that I can not and will not support my party’s nominee” regardless of the impact on his own candidacy.
Clinton, in her Tuesday speech, called Trump “temperamentally unfit to be president and commander in chief”.
Bowing to pressure from fellow Republicans, Mr Trump said on Tuesday he would no longer talk about the judge, adding that his previous remarks about Curiel had been misconstrued.
It continues to get worse for Donald Trump. When he announced his bid for office last June, he said that Mexicans coming across the border included rapists and drug dealers: “And some, I assume”, he said, “are good people”.
You know, I can understand why people can’t support Hillary Clinton.
“I am sure if I sat back and thought about it that there would be times that I would think that there were things that he said that he shouldn’t have said, ” Christie said. Ryan, too, said he would still support Trump.
Governor Scott Walker has insisted that he will stand by a promise to support the eventual Republican presidential nominee.
“I disavow those comments”, Ryan (R-Wis.) said, despite still backing Trump for president.
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Behind the scenes, the billionaire real estate developer has been pressured from friends and family to back down, fearful of the damage that may be done to his prospects in the November 8 election, a source close to the Trump campaign told Reuters.
