If Trump’s lawyers do challenge Curiel on his ethnicity, one lawyer who has known the jurist for 20 years says he might take it in stride. “They’ve made hundreds of millions of dollars selling access, selling favors, selling government contracts, and I mean hundreds of millions of dollars”, the real-estate mogul said.
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Rep. Messer said that he doesn’t believe Donald Trump is racist but he said that Trump played the race card when commented on the Mexican heritage of IN born Judge Gustavo Curiel.
Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colorado, who represents a Colorado swing district that Democrats hope to win in November, rushed through a scrum of reporters when asked about Trump’s comments. Indeed, Trump is said to have dug himself an even deeper hole last weekend, adding Muslim-American judges to the class of jurists before whom we are to believe he can not get a fair trial.
House Speaker Paul Ryan went further earlier this week, calling the comments “textbook” racism. You don’t attack a federal judge, and you certainly don’t attack him on the heritage of his parents. “But, based on the rulings that I have received in the Trump University civil case, I feel justified in questioning whether I am receiving a fair trial”.
“I thought they were inappropriate”, Coffman said, adding that he hasn’t ruled out voting for Trump.
Menendez said lashing out simply because someone isn’t getting their preferred way, “as Donald Trump seems to do often”, is “remarkably childish, thin-skinned, surprisingly egocentric”. “Not as a Republican, not as a political person, but I think it’s just wrong as an American”. Yet Trump could argue that when a Trump statement is perceived as bigoted, out come the axes.
Curiel, who is presiding over a case alleging that Trump University fleeced students, was born in IN to parents who came from Mexico in the 1940s. But for later editions, the tabloid splashed “HER” on the cover over a photo of Clinton as she assumed the historic mantle of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Fox News broadcaster Megan Kelly Monday called Trump’s comment about the judge “out of line”. It has sparked anew calls for candidates to break with the nominee, or for those who endorsed Trump to reconsider.
Clinton needs to make peace with her chief rival, U.S. Sen. No, I don’t think so. “We’re going to lead the Republican Party to victory this fall”. For instance, you possibly didn’t know I have many thousands of letters saying the course was great.
To help address the shortfall, Trump and the Republican National Committee created a joint fundraising account that allows wealthy individuals to skirt the individual contribution limit of $2,700 and write much larger checks instead.
Trump made a similar claim about Curiel’s affiliations during an interview with CNN “State of the Union” anchor Jake Tapper.
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“Today we are all Judge Gonzalo Curiel, and today we stand together as one nation, indivisible, no matter how hard someone tries to divide us”.
