Dingbat Don claim conflict of interest with Judge Curiel...

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...because in his mind he's already the president. :D

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ramped up his attacks on the judge presiding over the Trump University case, once again raising the judge’s Mexican ancestry.
Trump said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel had “an absolute conflict” in presiding over civil fraud proceedings against Trump University because he was “of Mexican heritage,” according to a Wall Street Journal report. Gonzalo was born in Indiana to Mexican immigrant parents. The billionaire found Curiel’s heritage relevant because Trump campaign rhetoric frequently touts building a border wall between the United States and Mexico.

“I’m building a wall. It’s an inherent conflict of interest,” Trump said.

Last week Trump criticized Curiel at a San Diego speech where he called the judge “a hater of Donald Trump” and “a total disgrace.”

Trump is facing a lawsuit over his for-profit school Trump University, which is alleged by former students to be a scam.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-ramps-attacks-against-005012589.html
 
He isn't President, yet, so he isn't building a wall, unless it's around one of his golf courses or hotels.
 
Basically he has said all Mexicans hate him so his case can not be judged by a judge of Mexican descent.

The racists will eat it up and Trump has laid the groundwork for an excuse for losing the litigation.
 
PeonthePussy said:
Basically he has said all Mexicans hate him so his case can not be judged by a judge of Mexican descent.

The racists will eat it up and Trump has laid the groundwork for an excuse for losing the litigation.
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"Basically", so he didn't really say that; but it fits your angst and agenda. :palm:
 
Trump has insisted over the past two weeks that the judge overseeing the Trump University fraud case cannot act impartially because he is "Mexican" (later: "of Mexican heritage"). That insistence has been received poorly, including by formerly stalwart Trump allies such as Newt Gingrich.

On Sunday morning, Trump expanded his line of thinking outward. During an interview Trump was asked whether a Muslim judge would similarly be incapable of treating him fairly.

His response? "It's possible, yes. Yeah. That would be possible, absolutely."

Let's set aside the fact that Article VI of the Constitution prohibits the sort of religious test that Trump would apparently like to apply to those who sit in judgment of him. And let us also set aside that, in 1998, lawyers who questioned the fitness of a judge based on his ethnicity were reprimanded severely, to the point that they were mandated to inform future judges in the district of their botched challenge.

Let us instead try to isolate which judges Donald Trump would like to bar from overseeing any future legal disputes involving his get-others-rich-quick schemes.

We already know that Trump could reject anyone who is Muslim, "Mexican" or "of Mexican heritage." (Those are in quotes because "Mexican," in this instance, doesn't actually mean Mexican: The judge in the Trump University case is from Indiana.)

The benchmark for exclusion isn't solely membership in a group that Trump has criticized and/or sought sanction against. It's membership in a group that Trump might be able to argue could view him negatively.

After all, he regularly insists that Hispanics love him, but he, for some reason, assumes Gonzalo Curiel doesn't. He assumes Muslims would judge him harshly but tells the world that Muhammad Ali's rebuke of his ban on Muslim entry into the United States wasn't about him.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/05/lets-narrow-down-which-judges-wouldnt-be-demographically-biased-against-donald-trump/
 
Leonthecat said:
Basically he has said all Mexicans hate him so his case can not be judged by a judge of Mexican descent.

The racists will eat it up and Trump has laid the groundwork for an excuse for losing the litigation.
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Basically, he didn't say ALL Mexicans hate him and the issue has nothing to do with race....Mexicans are a nationality....

but when you say "Trump has laid the groundwork for an excuse for losing the litigation" ....now you're onto something.....
 
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