The Hillary Clinton campaign criticized Donald Trump’s attacks of Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s Mexican heritage Friday, pointing out that under Trump’s definition of “American,” Latinos don’t fit.
On Thursday night, Trump said Curiel, the judge overseeing the Trump University case, had “an absolute conflict on interest” presiding over the case because of his “Mexican heritage.” Curiel was born in Chicago in 1953 to Mexican immigrants and has lived in America his entire life. In addition, Curiel’s brother served in the Vietnam War.
“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,” Hillary for America Director of Latino Outreach Lorella Praeli said in a statement Friday morning.
“Judge Curiel and his family epitomize the American Dream. His parents worked hard to give their U.S.-born children a better life,” Pareli added. “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.”
