“I’ve been treated very unfairly by this judge”, Mr. Trump said on CNN. But facts are, as always, beside the point for Mr. Trump, who reassured his audience that “the Mexicans are going to end up loving Donald Trump when I give all these jobs”.
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Via Mediaite. Between this and her criticism of him on Tuesday night, we can’t be more than 24 hours away from a new round of “Kelly’s a bimbo who’s bleeding out of her whatever” garbage.
Feeling confident his method has been a victor, Trump so far has waved off some of the advice from Republicans who support him but want less loose talk.
Trump went after the judge presiding over civil fraud lawsuits in San Diego that have hit the NY businessman’s Trump University venture by describing Curiel late Thursday as having “an absolute conflict” due to his “Mexican heritage”.
Tapper didn’t let up, asking Trump why he continued to focus on the judge’s Mexican background, when he was actually an American born in Indiana.
If Mexican judges can’t hear cases against people who have political views critical of Mexico, then every judge would have to be scrutinized by his ethnicity, and his heritage.
In Donald Trump’s world, we are beginning to understand, everybody is either a servile flatterer or a Rosie O’Donnell.
“She’s a very nice person, a very able judge”, said Walker.
“Look, the comment about the judge, just was out of left field for my mind”, Ryan said on WISN in Milwaukee. This case should have ended years ago.
Trump’s campaign aides have also criticized Curiel as a member of the former La Raza Lawyer’s Association, which is a leading Latino lawyers group in California. “A Hispanic can not judge a case against me”: that is what Trump is saying – explicitly.
“He clearly says things I do not agree with, and I’ve had to speak up from time to time when that happens”, Ryan said, adding that he will continue to do so if necessary.
Ryan said on Friday that he “completely” disagrees with that logic.
“This judge is giving us unfair rulings”, he said. “I think it’s a disgrace that he’s doing this”. “And it’s a wall between Mexico – not another country”.
For those Republicans who do not understand why some of us refuse to fall in line and back the presumptive nominee, this week offered a primer. His parents are Mexican immigrants. She said Trump could start a war when someone ‘got under his very thin skin.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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“The concern is that he would act unbounded in the presidency, in a way that doesn’t follow the law”, said John McGinnis, a Northwestern University law professor. How many people of that age, particularly those who have lived as public and successful a life as Trump, make major changes in who they are and how they approach the world? And we all know how Trump feels about our neighbors south of the border (hint: he’s called them “rapists” and “criminals”). “He ‘didn’t have sex with that woman, ‘” Trump said.
