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Donald Trump
continued Sunday to insist that the judge in a case involving his beleaguered
educational outfit, Trump University, was biased against him because the judge
is Hispanic.
The businessman first made the
argument during a recent campaign stop after being attacked over how Trump
University had essentially defrauded unsuspected students. Explaining why the
case hadn't been thrown out, Trump claimed that a judge in the case presumed to
be U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel was hostile toward him.
On "Fox
News Sunday," Trump expanded on his logic a bit.
“I think the
judge has been extremely hostile to me. I think it has to do with perhaps the
fact that I’m very, very strong on the border, very, very strong on the
border,” he said. “And he has been extremely hostile to me. This is a case
that, in our opinion, should have been won a long time ago, a case that we
should have won on summary judgment. We have a very hostile judge. Now, he is
Hispanic, I believe. Now he is a very hostile judge to me and I’ve said it loud
and clear.”
Trump, a frequent purveyor of
racism and xenophobia, was pressed as to why he would assume that a Hispanic
judge would be biased. And, naturally, he blamed the media.
“Because you always bring it up,
Chris,” he explained to host Chris Wallace. “Because you always say how the
Hispanics don’t like Donald Trump. You always bring it up in your poll numbers.
You say the Hispanics don’t like Donald Trump.”
Wallace and Trump then went back
and forth over whether Wallace actually has said that (who cares?) before Trump
reverted to the third person.
“This is a judge that in my
opinion does not like Donald Trump,” he said.
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