Clinton campaign: Trump doesn’t think Latinos are Americans

Published June 3, 2016 1:58pm ET



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.

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