GOP strategist and CNN commentator Ana Navarro ripped into Donald Trump during two TV appearances last week, showing the courage severely lacking from Republican leaders who are still supporting him even after his racist attacks on a federal judge. “It is highly offensive as a Hispanic. What he is doing is...
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In a new piece up on Medium, David Leopold, an immigration attorney and former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, strongly questions the silence of Donald Trump’s lawyers in reaction to his latest racist remarks regarding Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the well-revered U.S. District Judge who presides over the Trump University fraud case....
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It’s clear that Donald Trump is espousing an overtly racist vision of America. He says a U.S.-born judge of Mexican ancestry cannot sit in judgment of Trump because, well, he’s of Mexican ancestry. He doubts a Muslim judge could be fair. He started his rise in the GOP as a “birther” —...
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It was good to see MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough finally go off on Donald Trump for his racism, but the truth is that Trump’s campaign has been offensive from the start — and Scarborough has been among those guilty of enabling it. For Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski, apparently the...
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Washington, DC – Ya nadie puede tratar de justificar lo que siempre ha sido obvio: Donald Trump, el nominado republicano para presidente, es un racista. Aun antes de que Trump iniciara su campaña, jugueteaba con el llamado movimiento que clama por los “certificados de nacimiento”, el cual era un...
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Washington, DC – No longer can anyone try to explain away what has long been obvious: Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for President, is a racist. Even before Trump began his campaign, he was cavorting with the so-called “birther” movement, which was a blatantly racist attack on President Obama....
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Fox News host Megyn Kelly ripped Donald Trump for his outrageous attacks on US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel. Trump has claimed Judge Curiel is unfit to hear Cohen v. Trump, the civil fraud lawsuit against “Trump University,” simply because he is Latino. Judge Curiel, a well-respected jurist who received...
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Merger Now Complete: Trump and GOP One and the Same In yet another outrageous and indefensible attack, Donald Trump said yesterday that Judge Curiel, a well-respected federal judge, is unfit to hear Cohen v. Trump, the civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University, simply because of his ethnicity. This latest racist broadside from Trump...
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The Center for New Community has released two important resources in countering the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim movements. The first resource, “Anti-Immigrant And Anti-Muslim Threats In The United States,” is an assessment of organized nativist activity from around the nation, including groups with disturbing ties to white supremacists attempting to...
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An editorial in yesterday’s New York Times, “Donald Trump and the Judge,” echoes a point we have been trying to make – that we cannot allow Trump’s nativism and lies to go unchallenged or become normalized. Reacting to Trump’s race-baiting attack on the judge overseeing the Trump University class action lawsuit, the Times editorial states that,...
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