Posted on 06/07/2016 2:55:27 PM PDT by maggief
Donald Trump said Tuesday his comments that a Indiana-born federal judge might be biased against him because of his Mexican heritage had been misconstrued by the media.
The presumptive GOP presidential nominee made the assertion in a new statement Tuesday afternoon as he scrambles to contain blowback from Republicans.
"It is unfortunate that my comments have been misconstrued as a categorical attack against people of Mexican heritage. I am friends with and employ thousands of people of Mexican and Hispanic descent," Trump said.
"I do not feel that one’s heritage makes them incapable of being impartial, but, based on the rulings that I have received in the Trump University civil case, I feel justified in questioning whether I am receiving a fair trial."
Trump added that he's "watched as the media has reported one inaccuracy after another concerning the ongoing litigation involving Trump University."
The statement doesn't amount to a repudiation of his earlier comments, but it shows a tacit acknowledgment that he should tamp down his rhetoric.
Trump said in the statement that he will stop his talk of the judge's impartiality.
"I do not intend to comment on this matter any further," he said.
At 705 words, the statement was uncharacteristically long for the Trump campaign, which typically devotes only a few lines or paragraphs to its statements.
It also went on to criticize the former lead plaintiff on the Trump University case, Tarla Makaeff, asserting that she gave the program glowing reviews in its surveys. Trump said Makaeff was only removed from the case "once the plaintiffs' lawyers realized how disasterous a witness she was."
But Makaeff's lawyers had asked for her to be removed citing health and stress issues associated with the new-found celebrity of the case.
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He did not back down.
It’s the radical left wing The Hill rewriting his comments to peddle that spin.
You believe the lies from the this left wing Dem rag ?
Wrong. In no way, shape, or form did Trump apologize.
Everyone with a brain knows that the judge was a member of La Raza Lawyers of San Diego which is a member of La Raza Lawyers of California, both of which are fighting for illegal immigration.
This was just another Trump bashing and he needs to pay careful attention to the fault lines within his own party and separate the wheat from the chaff.
It is time for Trump, with Manafort's and Priebus' help, to unify that part of the GOP which can be unified and to shun that part (the Romney, Bush, Krystol wing) which will fight him to the end.
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