On Tuesday, Republicans were squirming over what might have been the billionaire’s most incendiary stance to date – the claim that Curiel couldn’t preside fairly over the Trump University case because the USA -born judge is of Mexican heritage and Trump wants to build a wall between the US and Mexico. Judge Curiel was born in Indiana.
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Trump said at the conclusion of the statement that he doesn’t intend to comment “on this matter any further”.
Now they are in contortions trying to distance themselves from his latest howler, which Speaker Paul Ryan called “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”
But despite his harsh words for the presumptive candidate, he stopped short of disavowing Trump himself. That’s wrong. Whether it’s Trump or Hillary Clinton or President Obama, no ad hominem attacks carry any credibility. No, I do not. Do I believe that Hillary Clinton is going to the be the answer to solving these problems?
“We have more likelihood of getting our policies enacted with [Trump] than with [Clinton]”, he said”.
Trump said in a statement Tuesday he does not believe Curiel’s heritage makes him incapable of being impartial, but he said his questioning of Curiel’s impartiality was “fair”.
Donald Trump speaks at Trump Tower after winning the New York Republican Primary.
The message was clearly an attempt to move past the avalanche of bad headlines he earned after asserting that the judge overseeing a lawsuit against Trump University could be biased against him because of his Mexican heritage.
Trump’s campaign press release says thousands of other positive surveys can be seen at www.98percentapproval.com.
Mr Trump’s level of support has since eroded as he sparred with his party’s leadership and continued to be dogged with questions about Trump University.
“But how do you stop a bigot?”
Former rival Jeb Bush implied Trump’s statement was lacking, tweeting: “Donald Trump should retract his comments, not defend them”.
“He has within his fingertips the opportunity to pivot, to move to the general election”, he said.
Boozman’s campaign was asked Tuesday about the senator’s opinion of Trump’s comments. He has previously written about film for Bloody Disgusting, We Got This Covered, What Culture, and The Celebrity Cafe. “It’s absolutely unacceptable”, Ryan said Tuesday morning. He put out a statement on Tuesday, detailing why he can no longer support the billionaire.
Governor Christie defended Trump Wednesday morning.
Both Christie and his son, Andrew, are delegates for Trump.
Other Republicans heaped on the criticism.
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“If anybody was looking for an off-ramp, this is probably it”, he said.
