Hillary makes history, legally this time

Hillary Clinton has stopped yelling and is back to her tired, old speech about the "glass ceiling and how her uterus is making history. As boring as it was, at least she wasn't yelling. 

Donald Trump disregarded the latest controversy about his stupid remarks about Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the Obama-appointed federal judge of Mexican heritage. Instead, he spoke about Hillary Clinton, as he closed out primary season as the GOP nominee. He promised not to let us down.

After yesterday's wins, Trump now has enough bound delegates to clinch the GOP nomination and does not need "unbound" delegates. Unfortunately, the same is true for Clinton. She has defeated socialist, Bernie Sanders, but he's not giving up, the old fart.

Trump spoke to the crowd on Briarcliff Manor, NY. He spoke about Hillary, saying that she and her husband, the former President and White House stud, Bill Clinton, "have turned the politics of personal enrichment into an art form for themselves," adding that Hillary "turned the State Department into her own private hedge fund."

"They've made hundreds of millions of dollars selling access, selling favors, selling government contracts," he said, and also promised to deliver a devastating speech next week on Hillary, hinting that it will discuss her private email server while she headed the State Department.

While Trump made no mention last night about Curiel, he may have a point about the judge's ability to remain impartial over the Trump University suit--not because of his Mexican immigrant parents, but because of his affiliation with a lawyer's group that has ties to a Mexican group that is clearly anti-Trump in its messaging--but more to follow on that in the future.

For now, Trump is feeling the heat from his own party and it seems that the country is more interested in voting for a candidate based on demographics rather than merit. I only hope that I am totally wrong.

Nothing could be worse than another liberal in the White House.


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Trump Attacks Federal Judge: pulls the "Mexican Card"

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump is currently involved in a fraud investigation against Trump University. 

The judge in the case is federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel. He was born in Indiana to Mexican immigrants and in an interview, Trump said the judge had "an absolute conflict" in presiding over the case due to his "Mexican heritage" and a member of a Latino lawyers' association.

Donald said the judge's background 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," Trump said. 

Trump also claimed the judge was a former colleague and friend of one of the plaintiff lawyers on the Trump University case, but the lawyer, Jason Forge, said he never saw the judge socially.

Forge said, "Neither Judge Curiel's ethnicity nor the fact that we crossed paths as prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office well over a decade ago is to blame" for Trump's actions. The judge himself, is not permitted to comment on the matter.

Criticizing a judge because of his ethnicity by a person who is the presumptive GOP nominee for president is an embarrassment to the party.

Stephen Burbank, a University of Pennsylvania law professor said that it was "absolute nonsense" that Curiel shouldn't be able to preside over a case because of his ethnicity, and anyone with a brain would have to agree. 

Imagine how many judges would have to recuse themselves due to their ethnic backgrounds. What, an Irish judge couldn't preside over a case involving a British defendant? 

It's crazy.

Burbank went on: "If this continues, I would hope that some prominent federal judges would set Mr. Trump straight on what's appropriate and what's not in our democracy," and I don't know where Professor Burbank stands politically, but I agree with him.

Trump screwed up but I don't know if it will matter with his fervent supporters. Like Hillary, whose supporters say they would continue to support her even if she's indicted for the personal email server, Donald Trump supporters would still support him even if he shot someone on Broadway.

And that's what scares me about what's happening to this country.

This isn't "Family Feud" folks. This is as serious as a python in your toilet. 

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