Leading the roll call were two former rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Republican leaders have widely denounced comments from Trump going after the heritage of Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was born in IN to Mexican immigrants. “Proof Trump doesn’t like Mexico and can’t name another country”. Chimed in Florida Sen. “I’d let them have it”, he said, referring to those who Trump portrayed as hypocrites. But that detente comes with caveats – chief of which is the understanding that Trump, nomination almost in hand, will now focus on uniting the fractured GOP.
Suggesting a broader campaign against the media, Trump said the campaign should also actively criticize television reporters.
But no mea culpa was forthcoming from the candidate. Last week, he denied on CNN that his remarks are racist.
“Public Service Announcement: Saying someone can’t do a specific job because of his or her race is the literal definition of “racism”, he tweeted”. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., a longtime Trump critic.
“I watched it in ’08, when Clinton lost to (President Barack) Obama”.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. He claims the judge has a conflict of interest based on his ancestry and has called on Curiel to recuse himself. It informed surrogates that “they’re not authorized to discuss matters concerning the Trump Organization including corporate news such as the Trump University case”. Trump has maintained that customers were overwhelmingly satisfied.
As an assistant USA attorney in southern California, Curiel helped negotiate the extradition of Mexican drug traffickers to the US and oversaw the prosecution that brought down the Arellano Felix drug cartel. Curiel is an American citizen and was born in Indiana.
Republicans can proceed as they choose, but they should know that no rhetorical parsing will adequately separate them from the man they are about to choose as their party’s standard-bearer.
“I think that he’s going to have to change”, Corker said on ABC’s “This Week”. It is a despicable, baseless conclusion that Trump made worse by later adding that he didn’t think a Muslim judge could deliver an impartial decision on his case either. So, that means no Mexican judges, no Muslim judges, no Asian judges, no women judges unless she’s a 10.
According to the AP count, Clinton now has the delegates needed to become the first woman nominated by a major US political party.
It was unclear whether the election-year blueprint, titled “A Better Way”, would win the blessings of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, a political outsider who has been willing to break ranks with party orthodoxy on major issues. While it was not unprecedented for Trump surrogates to sometimes struggle to defend the candidate of their choice during the primary, Monday was the first day in Trump’s campaign when a wide range of GOP party elders – not just the few who endorsed him in the primary – had to go to bat for him.
“He uttered a series of outrageous and unacceptable statements over the last week”, McConnell said in an interview with Maria Bartiromo.
Sources tell ABC News the discussion was “productive”, and Trump wanted to give those on the call insight on how to defend him.
Trump said that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s condemnation of the comments this weekend was “inappropriate”. “Yes. That would be possible, absolutely”.
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While Donald Trump’s most prominent supporters have slowly backed away from his racist crusade against Judge Gonzalo Curiel, some stand firmly behind him: his white nationalist fanboys.
