Rubio: Trump ‘Needs To Stop’ Racially Charged Attacks On Judge

FILE - In this March 14, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a campaign rally at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Fla. Rubio is facing in... FILE - In this March 14, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a campaign rally at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Fla. Rubio is facing intense pressure to run for re-election to his Florida Senate seat, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell taking the lead in a campaign to get him to reconsider his plans to retire. Republicans fear that if Rubio doesn’t run for a second term they could lose his seat. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) MORE LESS
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Former 2016 rival Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Monday that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump’s continuing jabs at a federal judge are “wrong” and called on the businessman to stop attacking the judge’s ethnicity.

WFTV’s Christopher Heath tweeted highlights of Rubio’s interview with the Orlando news station.

“I think it’s wrong,” Rubio said about Trump’s attacking U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over two of the lawsuits pending against Trump University, as “Mexican.” “He needs to stop saying it.”

“That man is an American,” the Florida senator also said, as quoted by Heath. “I don’t think it reflects well on the Republican Party [and] I don’t think it reflects well on us as a nation.”

Rubio, who isn’t running for re-election to his Senate seat, has repeatedly said he would back the Republican presidential nominee, even if it’s Trump, but has not endorsed the real estate mogul.

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  1. “I’m building a moat. In fact, I already have the biggest moat in the world between the US and Cuba. He’s Cuban. I have a moat. What is it with these people and their prejudices??!”

  2. This is just one of many things that don’t reflect well on the Republican party, pal.

  3. Perhaps not designed as racist attacks. This can easily be seen as a litigation strategy to apply pressure on Judge Curiel and/or the presiding judge to make a change in judges. Trump does not like Judge Curiel’s rulings. Perhaps he can get a different analysis of the case from a new judge. Cannot get any worse for him.

  4. Boy, with all this free advice from Republicans, you would think Trump would have gotten the message. But he is politically deaf. Sad.

  5. Yes it can. Most judges hate this kind of politcal BS and if Curiel were to recuse himself, my guess is the next judge would go overboard to show he’s not a toadie.

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