Trump: Judge comments 'misconstrued'

[mystery-ak]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/282539-trump-judge-comments-misconstrued

June 07, 2016, 04:11 pm
Trump: Judge comments 'misconstrued'

By Ben Kamisar

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.
 
The Trump University case alleges that the school defrauded its students and did not live up to its promises. Newly released documents from the trial last week show that salespeople pressured potential students into maxing out credit cards to cover the tuition, which topped out at $35,000.
 
Over the past few days, Trump has repeatedly accused Judge Gonzalo Curiel of bias and said that he cannot preside over a lawsuit against Trump University because "he's a Mexican."
 
Curiel was born in Indiana to Mexican parents.
 
GOP lawmakers have publicly slammed Trump for those comments, as well as his assertion last weekend that a Muslim judge could presumably be biased against him too because of his call to temporarily ban foreign Muslims from entering the U.S.
 
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) mounted the highest-profile critique Tuesday, when he called the comments "textbook" racism.

[sinkspur]

"Misconstrued."  In other words, it's our fault that we're just too effing stupid to understand Trumpspeak.

No one should be surprised at Trump's attacks on this judge.  Remember back in 2011, Trump's birtherism about Obama?

Some people are just too brown to be American.

It's doubtful Trump even read the statement.

[Gov Bean Counter]

"Misconstrued."  In other words, it's our fault that we're just too effing stupid to understand Trumpspeak.

No one should be surprised at Trump's attacks on this judge.  Remember back in 2011, Trump's birtherism about Obama?

Some people are just too brown to be American.

It's doubtful Trump even read the statement.

Trump is Arche Bunker with a spray on tan...

[Mechanicos]

Even the Democrats say its not a walk back. "The statement doesn't amount to a repudiation of his earlier comments,..."

Misconstrued = Not all of Mexican heritage are La Raza, But dishonest people will say it was racist.

[Gov Bean Counter]

Misconstrued = Not all of Mexican heritage are La Raza, But dishonest people will say it was racist.

No, it was bigoted. His comment about owning a black man was racist.

[L9teen]

So, what is being misconstrued about this:

In an interview, Mr. Trump said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel had “an absolute conflict” in presiding over the litigation given that he was “of Mexican heritage” and a member of a Latino lawyers’ association. Mr. Trump said the background of the judge, who was born in Indiana to Mexican immigrants, was relevant because of his campaign stance against illegal immigration and his pledge to seal the southern U.S. border. “I’m building a wall. It’s an inherent conflict of interest,” Mr. Trump said.

[mystery-ak]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3630086/Trump-says-S-victim-makes-desperate-bid-end-Mexican-judge-furor-saying-misconstrued-acts-late-stop-GOP-senator-canceling-endorsement.html#ixzz4Avpnx1lG

Trump says HE'S the victim as he makes desperate bid to end 'Mexican' judge furor by insisting he was 'misconstrued' – but acts too late to stop first GOP senator canceling endorsement

[Mechanicos]

Here is the Full Trump Statement without the Anti-Trump Filters

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,210767.0.html

[Machiavelli]

Oceania is at war with Eastasia and in an alliance with Eurasia.

Oceania is at war with Eurasia and in an alliance with Eastasia.

[Oceander]

Oceania is at war with Eastasia and in an alliance with Eurasia.

Oceania is at war with Eurasia and in an alliance with Eastasia.

George Orwell would be aghast at how much reality has come to mirror his books. 

[Oceander]

So, what is being misconstrued about this:

Not much to misconstrue there.  Trump said the judge had an absolute conflict solely because of his ethnic background. 

[L9teen]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3630086/Trump-says-S-victim-makes-desperate-bid-end-Mexican-judge-furor-saying-misconstrued-acts-late-stop-GOP-senator-canceling-endorsement.html#ixzz4Avpnx1lG

Trump says HE'S the victim

He ALWAYS does