Posted on 06/09/2016 6:12:35 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald Trump courted further controversy last week after he slammed Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a class action lawsuit against him, because of his Mexican ancestry. Trump claimed that Curiel, who was born in Indiana to Mexican parents, would not give him a fair trial because of Trump's policy of building a wall between the US and Mexico. The complaint, which Trump has doubled down on, was widely criticized and even prominent Republicans condemned the statement as racist.
The latest research from YouGov shows that only 20% of Americans think that Donald Trump was right to complain that Judge Gonzalo had a 'conflict of interest' because of his Mexican ancestry. Most Americans (57%) think Trump was wrong in his complaint. Even Republicans are divided on whether Trump's complaint was right or wrong, with 43% saying it was right but 39% saying that it was wrong.
What a large majority of Republicans do agree on, however, is that Donald Trump's comments weren't racist. Only 22% of Republicans say that the comments were racist. In comparison 81% of Democrats and 44% of independents say that the comments were racist.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.yougov.com ...
Like the little boy who called `Wolf!’ one too many times, the `Racist!’ meme has shot its wad.
That reliable lefty silver bullet doesn’t work anymore against our Wolfman and the rest of us.
If only a slim majority in a slanted online YouGov poll think this, Trump is in pretty good shape.
What Trump has to be careful of is to complete one thought before he moves on to another. Whoever helped him with the clarification speech did a real good job with that.
It's actually an issue (as are most) that will help Trump. People are fed up, from the federal right down to the local level of horrible anti-citizen, anti-law, anti-Constitution decisions that judges have made.
I totally agree. I had thought once Trump gets in, they (GOPe) will give him HELL.
The problem is pretty clear now. The insider backstabbers gave Romney every advantage, and he secured the nomination, then purposely lost the election. This time, he wants hillary to win, just as he wanted Obama to win. Romney would only care to win if it was with his globalist, elitist, screw-the-voting-fodder agenda.
Thank God Romney is yesterday's garbage. Four more years of Obama was bad, for sure. Assuming it gets us four years of President Trump, overall it's a better deal.
Why aren't you blaming Romney and the insider globalist elite backstabbers for the loss, instead of blaming voters who saw through him?
Democrats and most independents are ignorant. Look what they have done to America.
Trump for President.
Too bad they didn’t follow up with => ‘Do you GAF?’
For Trump, looking past the bluster and bravado, there is - most times - a LOT of truth. What he SAID about the judge was not very nice or good, but digging into the facts, the judge -by all definition- is himself a racist, biased against Trump, very much pro-Hillary, and should be recused from Trump's case.
Was Trump "wrong"? YES in presentation, but NOT wrong on the background facts.
Based on talk radio in Chicago, Trump seems to have a strong following with blacks - those that have come to realize that Obama did them no favors, they are worse off, they have lost hope in Democrats, and are tired of being taken for granted. Many have looked past the media mantra that Trump is racist, looked at what he really said and done, used their brains, and drawn conclusions that are not evident in polls or in the liberal media.
We almost need a transcript and research team for BOTH candidates for any public utterance - since the press won't do it.
Judge was born in 1953. Mother naturalized in 1969
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-36325-10834-58?cc=2137708
No naturalization record found yet for father.
Pass this on to all your social media and email lists, the media isn’t gonna report it.
Present these poll-ees with the facts of
Curiel’s sympathy to blatantly race-centered groups;
Curiel’s membership in an organization that vowed to damage Trump’s business interests because of his plans;
Curiel’s order to illegally unseal records in the Trump U. case, in the judge’s own words as a transparent reprisal against Trump’s questioning the judge’s fairness;
Then ask the questions.
Is it possible that the Trump haters screaming about "racism," do not really understand what they are screaming about?
Racial identity, species identity, community identity, are all useful descriptive terminology. While mistreating any one so identified is, of course, wrong; merely recognizing identifying characteristics is simply being observant. Calling names does not transform what is good into something bad; nor does it transform something bad into something good.
Leftists, of course, use name calling as a device to suppress dissent from their social experiments. Their name calling should be understood for what it is, a tactic to intimidate; never anything to do with truth seeking.
I lived a few years in Corpus Christi, Tx and can assure you LaRaza IS racist.
Trump was negligent in failing to emphasize more forcefully that the real racist is the judge with his La Raza connection. His rabbit trail into the merits of the lawsuit was a major error. If staff failed to warn him about this, they should be FIRED.
Those Republicans better get their heads out of their back pockets. As for the Dem and Indies, words alone are unlikely to sway them.
Cesar Chavez: ”La raza is a very dangerous concept. I speak very strongly against it…
Of course Mexico is a country, and is not a race.
(sigh.)
Not too shabby since this is a recent development and few Americans know the real story. Calls of racism among Americans used to be kneejerk fast.
On the other hand, I have a very real problem in people who come to America and insult & disparage our heritage. Honor, to my way of thinking, requires respect for those who have established a social order, when you find yourself in the land governed by that social order.
If LaRaza seeks to overthrow the Anglo/Celtic culture of the Founding Fathers, they forfeit their right to stay in Corpus Christi or anywhere else in the United States. If they simply want to celebrate being Mexican, Hispanic or Mestizo, that is their business, wherever they are legally present.
They are upset that a man refuses to bow to a crooked system that's been stacked against him - scary when men act like men instead of sheep.
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