Way to prove the point, Donny. On the same day that Hillary Clinton described Trump as thin-skinned, prone to personal feuds, and “temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability, and immense responsibility,” Trump took his attacks on the judge overseeing civil fraud cases against his Trump University to the next level:
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.
“I’m a giant racist, so only the whites can decide if I’ve also defrauded people.” Or something of that nature.
This isn’t just racist and thin-skinned and defensive and ridiculous, though. It’s spurring legal experts to point out that not only are Trump’s attacks on Judge Curiel appalling, they show Trump’s contempt for the Constitution:
“This is how authoritarianism starts, with a president who does not respect the judiciary,” Mr. Post said. “You can criticize the judicial system, you can criticize individual cases, you can criticize individual judges. But the president has to be clear that the law is the law and that he enforces the law. That is his constitutional obligation.”
“If he is signaling that that is not his position, that’s a very serious constitutional problem,” Mr. Post said.
Yeah, he’s signaling that that is not his position. “Very serious constitutional problem” could be Donald Trump’s middle name. But way to make Clinton’s point for her, from the thin-skinned personal attack to the temperamental unfitness for office.