Posted on 02/28/2016 12:26:54 PM PST by reaganaut1
Donald Trump said today he may ask the federal judge overseeing an upcoming civil fraud trial involving the now defunct Trump University to recuse himself because he is Hispanic and is therefore biased against him due to his plan to build a wall to keep out immigrants from Mexico.
Trump first raised the idea of filing a motion to recuse U.S. Judge Gonzalo Curiel during a campaign rally on Saturday in which, without mentioning him by name, the Republican candidate said the judge overseeing his case has shown “tremendous hostility” to him. “He’s Hispanic, which is fine,” Trump said.
“Why would you need to ask for a recusal and what does his ethnicity have to do with it?” moderator Chuck Todd asked Trump during an appearance on “Meet the Press” Sunday morning. “Because I think he’s been very, very unfair with us,” Trump replied. “ I think the judge has been extremely unfair. This is a case that many, many, many people said should have been thrown out on summary judgment. We have 98 percent approval. We have an A from the Better Business Bureau. “
“And you think it’s because he is Hispanic?” Todd asked. Trump’s reply: “Well because of the wall, and because of everything that’s going with Mexico and all of that, I think it’s frankly – look, this is a judge who has treated me very, very unfairly. This is a case that should have been thrown out a long time ago in the opinion of many great lawyers.”
Curiel, who was born in East Chicago, Ind., and graduated from Indiana University and Indiana University Law School, was nominated to the federal bench President Obama in 2011 – and approved by the Senate the next year by voice vote without opposition.
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Well I’ll will give Trump praise for sticking by his guns when he thinks he is right, it would be MUCH easier for someone with his money just to give all the plantiffs big confidential payout (which is probably what they want) to drop the lawsuits and make them go away, but Trump’s going to fight them to the last appeal.
Is he finished? You neglected to point that out.
Early morning news outlets cruise FR looking for hot trending articles against Trump. I see the big picture.
Bunch of carrion eating peacocks.
Yep. He's still fighting.
Trump and his university–which operated from 2005 through 2010, when it was shut down as the San Diego suits and multiple state attorneys general investigations were beginning–lured approximately 7,000 consumers into paying $1,495 to $34,995 for courses where, as the promotional material put it, Donald Trump’s “handpicked instructors” would teach them Trump’s “insider success secrets” of how to invest in real estate.
In October 2014 a New York judge found Trump personally liable for the institution's violation of state education laws. On December 10, 2015, Donald Trump gave a closed-door pretrial deposition with the fraud trial expected in May 2016 during the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries. Trump has also made reference to the Hispanic ethnicity of the presiding judge, hinting at a possible bias. Attorney General Schneiderman responded in a statement calling Trump's allegations “racial demagoguery.”
In a separate class action civil suit in mid-February 2014, a San Diego federal judge allowed claimants in California, Florida, and New York to proceed. A Trump counterclaim, alleging that the state Attorney General's investigation was accompanied by a campaign donation shakedown, was investigated by a New York ethics board and dismissed in August 2015. Trump also filed a $1 million defamation suit against former Trump University student Tarla Makaeff, who had spent about $37,000 on seminars, after she joined the class action lawsuit and publicized her classroom experiences on social media. Unable to prove malice, Trump University lost an anti-SLAPP lawsuit (under statutes designed to thwart legal intimidation of class action participants) and was ordered by a U.S. District Judge in April 2015 to pay Makaeff and her lawyers $798,774.24 in legal fees and costs. "That just shows you how low they will go to silence people", Makaeff said.
Despite Trump's claim to have won much of the lawsuit, as of February 2016, all three lawsuits are still pending.
Only Trump doesn’t want to tackle immigration. That is just what he is telling his suckers.
I like the way Trump threw down the race card!
Going forward, we can all compare and contrast the media’s reaction to a Progressive, or 0bama, playing the race card to this incident.
Trump can now contrast “offical media reaction” to his race card versus Progressive race cards.
“Oh, the media is sooooo dishonest, do you see how they do not react when Hillary plays a race card on me!!!”
Who was talking about Mr. Amnesty, Pathway to Citizenship?
I'm Cruz/Trump.
I've never seen a bigger bunch of Sore Winners.
It's like FRumpters don't need or want the 20% of Cruz supporters after Trump secures the nomination.
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I dont have any personal animosity to the Cruz people that are not part of the crew of self-righteous jerks and spammers. I dont even have a personal beef with Cruz himself.
There are lots of Cruz folks here that are not on that bandwagon, and I do hate when my wording gets seen as being directed at all of them. I’ll admit most of the time it’s after I hit post.
I just want this crap to be done so the cranks will go off in a huff in peace.
But I've never seen a bigger bunch of Sore Winners.
It's like FRumpters don't need or want the 20% of Cruz supporters after Trump secures the nomination.
Those supporting RINO, GOPe backed Rubio sure as hell aren't going to Trump.
Cruz & Trump ARE the two Anti-Establishment candidates.
There is plenty of vitriol from both sides, I too, have dished some back at the Trump election-year trolls.
I’ve read the pleadings. Trump is going to lose, Yuuuuge.
Trump sue the lead plaintiff in the California case for defamation in an anti-SLAPP lawsuit, resulting in Trump having to pay her attorney almost $800,000.
Since there is over 5,000 plaintiffs in just one of the lawsuits, and because it is a civil RICO action, Trump will have to pay treble damages and the plaintiffs legal fees.
The Democrats are going to accuse him of being a racketeer, and it will be true. Just what the Republicans need, a racketeer as its nominee.
Just think about that, Trumpkins.
Also,on another note you may not be aware of it too close I would guess (Forrest/trees),but people from Texas can be spotted a mile away,and it is a shame, on any thread,the ego,braggadocio,etc even without a Texas screen name,they are obvious. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know who they are for and for no other reason than their home state,even when they move,they project that attitude that is so Lyndon Johnson ,it is a huge turnoff. Remember that we have 50 states,not one,but you still carry a torch even though you left the state. Keeping allegiances is commendable,but not when it colors your thinking,actions and turns others away.
I am not calling anyone ignoramuses. All some us are saying is that we cannot like lemmings be blinded by the streak facts, and taken over a cliff.
Anyone who knows anything about Trump knows how he lays the blame on others for his own failures whether its the Taj Mahal, the Trump Shuttle; or the scam Trump University.
With a solid 65% saying they can’t bring themselves to vote forum; and given the exchange of personal insults with Rubio, Rubio’s 22%-25% will never vote for Trump. His unfavorables among women are staggering. We cannot let this snake oil salesman sabotage the conservative movement. Several senators and Congress-members are fearful that with Trump heading the ticket, we may lose the Senate as well. This is dangerous stuff.
He reminds me of my granddaughter when she was about 3. She would cry and say “it’s not fair!”
I thought you Trump supporters were just telling the rest of us Trump was winning the hearts and minds of Hispanic voters. Just not this judge apparently.
Apparently. But so what? Only collectivists expect the individuals making up groups to act identically. Trump is only reflecting on what he's experienced from this actual judge.
I guess that's why you're confused.
Agreed. They are PAID to post thread after thread, comment after comment to give the impression Trump is not popular on FR.
WRONG
Trump continues, CONTINUES to be the preferred Republican Presidential Candidate in 2016 on Free Repbulic.
Hope Trump accepts Republican Nomination on 7/21/2016 in Ohio, just 21 weeks from now. And then to again win as President of the United States of America on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as 46th President of the United States, which will be the 58th quadrennial U.S. presidential election.
Oh and a side note, please let Sarah Palin be a guest speaker at the convention. The Establishment shunned her 4 years ago and it would be a pleasure to see her personally invited by Trump as a guest speaker on one of the nights. Other suggested speakers would be Rudy, Chris Christie and Newt Gingrich. NOT Mitt Romney.
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