Clinton camp defends Latino judge in Trump University case

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The Hill ‏@thehill 2h2 hours ago
JUST IN: Clinton campaign defends Hispanic Trump University judge after Trump's attacks http://hill.cm/imveD6S


“Judge Gonzalo Curiel and his family epitomize the American Dream,” said Lorella Praeli, Hillary for America’s director of Latino outreach, in a statement Friday.

“His parents worked hard to give their U.S.-born children a better life. He and his brothers became successful lawyers. His other brother served in Vietnam.”

The statement from the Clinton campaign comes after presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump criticized Curiel and questioned whether the Hispanic judge could be impartial...

Trump, while campaigning in San Diego, devoted a large chunk of his speech to a lawsuit against Trump University and called out the California federal judge presiding over the case.

"The trial is going to take place sometime in November. There should be no trial. This should have been dismissed on summary judgment easily," Trump said. "Everybody says it, but I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He’s a hater. His name is Gonzalo Curiel. And he is not doing the right thing, and I figure what the hell, why not talk about it for two minutes."

At the rally, Trump said he believes Curiel is "Mexican," and noted his appointment by President Obama, claiming that Curiel has been "very hostile" toward him.

“The judge, who happens to be, we believe, Mexican, which is great, I think that’s fine,” Trump said. “You know what? I think the Mexicans are going to end up loving Donald Trump when I give all these jobs,
OK?”

“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," Praeli said. "In Trump’s version of America, this Latino family isn’t really American. But they are America. And Hillary Clinton will fight for all Americans.”


read: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/282101-clinton-camp-defends-hispanic-trump-u-judge

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