“I may not be asked to speak, but if I am at a convention or any Republican gathering for that matter, what I would communicate is the things I believe in”, Rubio said Monday evening. His defenders have said he has a distinguished record in the judicial system and never has exhibited any bias against Trump. Last week, the presidential candidate said Curiel had treated him unfairly because he was a Mexican opposed to Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the US border with Mexico.
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“I don’t think it reflects well on the Republican Party, I don’t think it reflects well on us as a nation”.
Following the meeting with the pastors, Trump declared the gathering a success, telling reporters, “I saw love in that room”.
Trump’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment from CBS News regarding the findings.
A spokesman for Portman said the senator strongly disagrees with Trump on this issue and that a person’s heritage is not relevant to their job performance.
Filemon Vela took a poison pen to the Republican presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, in an open letter Monday morning.
“When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very risky”, the presumptive Republican nominee said. “And all I can tell you is I ran for president, I warned this is what was going to happen.consistently said that if he became the nominee we would face these sorts of hard choices we now have”. [Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images] Gingrich went on to say that if liberals attacked Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, an African-American, on grounds of race, conservatives “would all go insane”.
While seeking the GOP nomination, Kasich mocked Trump for his desire to rid the country of millions of Latinos who illegally entered the U.S. Curiel is the Indiana-born son of Mexican immigrants.
For his part, Trump maintained that his suggestion that Curiel’s heritage made him unfit to preside over the case was not racist. The former Georgia congressman is also said to have been instrumental in pushing top Republicans to support the businessman as the party’s standard-bearer. This judge is not Mexican. “I want to build a wall”, Trump said on CNN.
On Sunday, Trump doubled down on the idea.
He concluded: “I would like to end this letter in a more diplomatic fashion, but I think that you, of all people, understand why I can not”.
Curiel has declined to comment on Trump’s offensive comments.
Gonzales added, “I wrote to say Donald Trump, like every litigant in the United States, has the right to a fair trial before an impartial judge”.
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On Monday, the global internet media company BuzzFeed pulled out of a million-dollar advertising agreement with the Republican National Committee over objections to Trump’s rhetoric.
