Posted on 06/06/2016 4:31:12 PM PDT by cotton1706
Donald Trump urged his supporters during a Monday conference call to defend his controversial accusation that a federal judge is unfit to rule in a Trump University fraud case because of his Hispanic heritage, Bloomberg reported.
Trump was defiant, despite the rash of criticism he's faced from Republicans and Democrats alike, according to a description of the call to Bloomberg by two supporters who participated.
"We will overcome," Trump said. "And Ive always won and Im going to continue to win. And thats the way it is."
He went on to declare that his surrogates should specifically target journalists who are bringing up the issue.
"The people asking the questions those are the racists," Trump added. "I would go at 'em."
When former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Trump supporter, told the presumptive GOP presidential nominee that the campaign's surrogate handler specifically emailed about steering clear of the controversy, Trump bristled.
"Take that order and throw it the hell out," he said, repeatedly demanding to know who sent the memo, Bloomberg reported. When told the memo was sent by Erica Freeman, a staffer who sends information to surrogates, Trump said he didn't know her, Bloomberg reported.
"Are there any other stupid letters that were sent to you folks? That's one of the reasons I want to have this call, because you guys are getting sometimes stupid information from people that aren't so smart."
Trump has repeatedly questioned Judge Gonzalo Curiel, arguing that his Mexican heritage makes him biased in the case because of Trump's plan to build a border fence along the Mexican border.
Instead of walking that back, he doubled down over the weekend, floating the prospect that a Muslim judge might be similarly biased against him and unfit to preside in a case he's involved in.
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Even Fox News seems totally CLUELESS when it comes to the meaning of 'LA RAZA' and Judge Curiels association with it. WHAT THE HELL ELSE DOES 'THE RACE' DENOTE OTHER THAN RACISM, FOX!!
LA RAZA is Mexican KKK!!!
He unsealed some records that gave out the names, addresses, and telephone numbers that shouldn't have been released, and now is trying to close the barn door after horses have left.
To be clear....it’s a past affiliation.
>>”Are there any other stupid letters that were sent to you folks?<<
And that, folks, is the Trump Effect(TM)
Can you imagine ANY Presidential candidate saying that, all the way back to Hamilton?
A breath of fresh air — badly needed air in the toxic MSM and GOPe smog-laden environment.
This is doing no good for Trump keeping it in the news. With the exception of his supporters, this has a circular firing squad of Republicans, even his supporters, around him. I can’t see this helping with independents. We know what he meant.
I don’t think Trump was saying every judge of Mexican or Hispanic ancestry would be unfair. I think that he’s saying this judge is unfair because of his affiliation with this particular La Raza chapter. I know, I know, there are two La Razas. However, this one is listed on their website as a political group, they’ve endorsed candidates, and they also were involved in giving a scholarship to an illegal immigrant. Also, he could bring up the connection with the law firm and Clinton money as well as the judge continuing the case without the original plaintiff, and the judge releasing info that should not be released. If Trump had done it that way instead of just saying that he’s a Mexican/Hispanic, I don’t think we would have had the controversy. The judge might have looked suspicious. Then Trump should have touted the positive reviews and promoted the video of people who liked Trump U.
He should have moved on after that because the bottom line is that the longer this stays in the media and the longer this is out there, the more they will proclaim him a racist (despite the fact that Mexican and Hispanic are not races) and the more dirt journalists will search for on Trump U. The case is after the election, and he should focus his time on touting what he’ll do and hitting Hillary hard, debunking her speech, and exposing every last contradiction and bit of dirt he can find. That’s what most Americans care about, not Trump U.
The judge is a member of LA RAZA— a radical group that wants to make America Mexico again. They are the ones who defiantly fly Mexican flags and burn the American flag at Trump’s rallys. Trump has already started building the wall, the physical one will come later when he is president. The psychological wall must also be built, one that proclaims America FIRST.
Has he said or done anything to give Trump the impression that hes not able to rule fairly?
Have you read anything about the case? The main plaintiff turns out to have praised Trump University, in writing, and Trump can provide that backup. So the prosecutors now want to change the plaintiff, since their whole case has been undercut. In any other case, it would have been dismissed, but not this one. Why? Because this case is supposed to be dragged out, intentionally, and they have a compliant judge to help.
Its clear whats going on. This judge is political, that is, not making rulings on the law, but on politics. Hes associated with La Raza and should recuse himself. But he wont.
You got it! The judge has an appearance of impropriety because of his La Raza membership and his rulings are more than appearance of impropriety, they are improper.
I think we are looking at a political persecution to try to hurt Trump. The plaintiff lawyers are big Hillary donors. The fix is in.
Nonsense.
He said everything he needed to say. That he didn't say it in the way the snowflakes and presstitutes demand means less than nothing, and even highlights the double standard MOST Americans have had to tolerate.
Because I doubt the judge knew about the Clinton money when he assigned that firm, the opening of files didn’t hurt anything to do with Trump or the University, the judge could very likely be in this group simply to network with other Latino lawyers like all minorities have their own chapters, political affiliation and race has not been held to be legal grounds for recusal, etc. a lot of reasons to drop it..
I see all the hand-wringers are running around in circles like they usually do.
To be clear....its a past affiliation
Regardless, does that really matter, if so? A past La Raza affiliation is comparable to a past KKK affiliation.
I think that you’re a lazy concern troll is a bigger problem.
That's a media lie since Trump brought up both his ethnicity and membership in a race based organization that exists to further latino racial interests, including amnesty.
Trump expects people to connect dots and not expect to be spoon fed. Trump doesn't do snowflakes, and he tunes out whiners. He's the ONLY one promising to build a wall against MEXICO. He's dealing with a judge who considers HIMSELF Mexican first. If people can't figure that out, they aren't voting for him anyway. How hard is it to type a name into Google? How hard is it to understand what an organization named "The Race" stands for, especially when its slogan is "For the Race, Everything - For Others, nothing"? Where is the mystery here? That's why he refers to the judge as a "Mexican" rather than a Mexican-American - he's showing what the JUDGE thinks!
If Trump could navigate through the "blood" libel, I'm inclined to defer to his ability to handle this without their input.
> To be clear....its a past affiliation.
How far in the past?
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
Alexander the Great,
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