Clinton Camp Slams Trump As ‘Unfit To Be Prez’ For Attacks On Judge’s Ethnicity

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally, Thursday, June 2, 2016, in El Centro, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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A top aide to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton said presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump’s recent string of personal attacks on the judge presiding over lawsuit against him show he’s “unfit to be President.”

“Judge Curiel and his family epitomize the American Dream,” Lorella Praeli, Clinton’s director of Latino outreach, said in a statement Friday morning. Praeli also highlighted the federal judge’s successful legal career and his brother’s service in Vietnam.

“The fact that Donald Trump doesn’t see Judge Curiel and his family as Americans makes him unfit to be President of this great nation, a nation of immigrants,” she said in the statement. “In Trump’s version of America, this Latino family isn’t really American.”

The billionaire has repeatedly attacked Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over two high-profile lawsuits over his failed Trump University venture, as a “Trump hater” and claimed the Indiana-born judge’s “Mexican” heritage constitutes “an inherent conflict of interest” in the case.

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  1. I must say, I haven’t enjoyed a Democratic presidential campaign this much…EVER!

  2. Avatar for mymy mymy says:

    She’s going great guns! Keep it up!

  3. Avatar for dswx dswx says:

    Great guns, yes. But the Trump-friendly media is going with Trump’s “Hillary Should Go To Jail”.

  4. Open acknowledgment that racism, Misogyny, religious intolerance and xenophobia are corner stones of modern Republicanism. Violence, fear, ignorance, and stupidity are other key Republican principles on full display this election. This is what happens when politicians listen hate radio 24/7/365 and think that they have the pulse of America. They only have the pulse of the small slice of people who listen to hate radio. There are only so many old white men in America.

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