“That would be possible, absolutely”, Trump said.
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The school emerged as an issue in a February Republican presidential debate, after which Trump made his first comments about Curiel.
Mr Trump has vowed repeatedly to build a wall on the US-Mexican border to keep out “rapists” and drug traffickers.
‘I’m not changing, ‘ he said Tuesday at a fiery news conference at Trump Tower.
‘I thought this interview was going to be more about the foreign policy arena, ‘ Corker said on ABC.
“This is a good time, it seems to me, to begin to try to unify the party”, McConnell said. “The country has gotten on a very unsafe path of political correctness”, said Padron.
Trump said that while the U.S.is bound to defend Japan in the event of an attack, the reverse isn’t true.
Republican strategist Brian Walsh, a former spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, quickly took to social media after Trump’s remarks on Muslims Sunday: “I don’t care if he’s the nominee – Republicans should loudly condemn this racist, nonsensical rhetoric by Trump”, Walsh tweeted. After refusing to back Trump for weeks, Ryan wrote a Thursday guest column in his hometown newspaper explaining that he would vote for Trump while still voicing disagreements when necessary. The Republican nominee is claiming that the American-born judge is biased against him because he is Mexican.
Republican backers have also criticized Trump’s comments about the judge. “It’s an inherent conflict of interest”, Trump said, referring to the wall he has pledged to construct between the USA and Mexico if elected. Yesterday, in a story about some of Trump’s remarks, CNN ran a chyron reading “Trump: I never said Japan should have nukes (he did)”.
When pressed about a USA tradition of not judging people by their heritage or nationality, Trump told Dickerson: “I’m not talking about tradition, I’m talking about common sense, OK?” After Trump’s attack on Judge Curiel and threats to use the presidency to go after him, McConnell helpfully explained that a President Trump would be constrained by the advice of a White House Counsel – as if Trump’s inner staff would be anything but Putin-style flunkies.
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Trump in recent days has escalated his attacks against U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who last week ordered parts of internal documents, including “playbooks” regarding running the enterprise, to be released as part of a lawsuit against Trump University. A third prominent Republican who also supports Trump urged the candidate to start acting like “a potential leader of the United States”. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he “couldn’t disagree more with the statement”. “Call me stupid – I was one of the guys who figured he’d do the whole pivot thing”, said one donor, referring to an often-used strategy of moving more to the middle after securing the nomination. “All of us came here from somewhere else”, McConnell said in reference to Curiel’s heritage. He said that the two had only “spoken about it very briefly”. Trump has suggested that Japan should arm itself with nuclear weapons, hinted at an end to the Japan-US alliance, and proposed sky-high tariffs on Japanese cars sold in the United States (despite the fact that a lot of them are manufactured domestically by American workers). It’s the scrutiny that Hillary Clinton has gotten during the Bill Clinton administration and for the emails and Benghazi controversies stemming from her tenure as secretary of State.
