Trump's Bashing Of Hispanic Judge Defines Bigotry

When Donald Trump announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in June 2015 he unleashed a tirade against illegal immigrants from Mexico blasting most of those immigrants as criminals and “rapists.”

Given Trump’s alleged concern about rapists running rampant his silence on a California state court judge’s recent issuance of an insulting six month sentence to a violent rapist is troubling especially considering Trump’s unprecedented onslaught against rulings by a federal judge in California of Mexican-American ancestry.

Perhaps Trump’s silence on the wrist-slap sentence for that violent rapist revolves around the fact that this rapist is not one of those Mexican immigrants that Trump rails against for committing crimes.

That convicted rapist is a young white male whose crime occurred while he attended a prestigious university on an athletic scholarship. The judge in that rape case is also a white male, an alumnus of the university the rapist attended.

The victim of that violent rapist is a woman and Trump has oozed a litany of offensive remarks about women during the campaign that placed him as the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential candidate. Trump did speak out on behalf on a woman killed during a 2015 crime but that killer was an illegal immigrant from Mexico.

Trump denies that bigotry motivates his assault on that Mexican-American federal judge while he seamlessly declares that judge’s “unfair” rulings against him are motivated by that judge’s race-based retaliation against Trump.

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