Donald Trump was attacked by a key ally on Sunday who publicly rebuked him yesterday over comments that the presumptive Republican nominee made over a judge’s ethnicity, The Washington Post is reporting. “The judge, who happens to be, we believe, Mexican, which is great, I think that’s fine”, he said as he called into question Curiel’s impartiality.
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U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, hoping to help unify Republicans after a divisive primary election campaign, was due to begin rolling out his long-promised conservative policy agenda on Tuesday, with an anti-poverty initiative that emphasizes work. “Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of racism”.
The worst equivocation may have been from his latest endorser, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who promised to do nothing more than to “keep speaking out” when Trump says something “out of left field”.
Christie defended the presumptive Republican nominee who has been criticized for saying U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel can not judge him fairly because he is of Mexican heritage and Trump plans to build a wall with Mexico.
Ryan made his comments during an appearance at a women’s shelter in Washington, D.C. “It’s reasoning I don’t relate to; I completely disagree with the thinking behind that”.
Like other Republicans, Yoder has cited Hillary Clinton as the reason he supports Trump for president.
The agenda rollout comes a week after Ryan’s tepid endorsement of Trump.
Donald Trump on Tuesday released a statement on the ongoing controversy with Judge Curiel and the continuing legal battle with Trump University, attempting to close the book on the burgeoning controversy that has put the GOP into a tailspin. “I think it’s inexcusable”, Gingrich said. “I’m going to defend our ideas”, he said.
In a statement Tuesday, Kirk said that Trump’s “belief that an American-born judge of Mexican descent is incapable of fairly presiding over his case is not only dead wrong, it is un-American”. The flap over the judge is proving particularly problematic and leading Republicans have taken turns denouncing Trump’s comments.
Donald Trump’s comments on Hispanic judge risk alienating Hispanics from the Republican Party. “I believe that we have more common ground on the policy issues of the day and we have more likelihood of getting our policies enacted with him than we do with her”. His great-grandson, my father, served in the U.S. Army and, coincidentally, was one of the first “Mexican” federal judges ever appointed to the federal bench.
“You’ll have to ask Donald why he says the thing he does”, he said.
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Trump, Kasich wrote, should “apologize to Judge Curiel & try to unite this country”. “This is a legislative agenda for 2017 with a new president”, Ryan said, “Our goal here isn’t to draft bills and pass them and see them go nowhere”. Kelly Ayotte, who is waging a reelection battle in New Hampshire, has previously tried to split the difference with Trump by “supporting” – but not “endorsing” – him.
