Donald Trump on Monday ordered surrogates on a campaign call to keep criticizing a federal judge overseeing a lawsuit against him, according to two sources on the call.
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Democrat Hillary Clinton also said on twitter that Mr Trump’s disbanded University, which was accused by former staff of mis-selling expensive real estate courses to financially vulnerable students, would make readers feel “nausea”.
In an interview with CNN, Raul Curiel said that he thinks Trump is speaking from a place of ignorance when he says his brother Gonzalo cannot judge the Trump University lawsuit fairly because of his Mexican heritage.
Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, among a group of Republicans who have vowed to not support Trump, labeled him a racist.
Bloomberg first reported that Trump learned about the memo during the conference call and questioned how his supporters are supposed to defend themselves when they aren’t allowed to talk.
Trump has come under fire for suggesting that Judge Gonzalo Curiel “should have recused himself” from the fraud case against the presumptive Republican nominee’s now defunct Trump University.
MITCH MCCONNELL: I couldn’t disagree more with what he had to say. “This is not an exception, this is the rule”, Earnest said.
Gingrich urged Trump to become more of a statesman.
“It Is gross, its vile, and it is not normal behavior for anyone, let alone someone running for President of the United States”, she added. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has documented that trade with Mexico accounts for at least 6 million jobs in the United States, he said.
“We’re in a politically correct world and he’s never been political correct”, said another Trump source.
Trump didn’t take the criticisms lightly.
“Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level”, he said.
There was a whole bunch of insane in that conference call, but the craziest moment of all was when Trump suggested that the journalists who are doing their jobs by asking him questions about the Trump University case and his comments about the judge are the real racists. He used an Albuquerque rally to berate New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, the highest ranking Latina in the Republican Party. Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on ABC’s “This Week”.
Trump, to his surrogates, declared: “We will overcome”. “This is no longer the primaries”. “We’re building a wall between here and Mexico”.
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“I think he’s perfectly capable of doing that, and it’ll be interesting to see whether he changes his style, he starts acting more presidential, and whether he brings people together”, Collin said at the time.
