Donald Trump and Immigrants.
He’s obsessed with them.
He’s going to build a wall across the southern border to keep Mexicans out because they are “criminals and rapists.” He’s going to ban all Muslims from entering the country. He’s going to deport eleven million undocumented aliens.
He led the “Birther” movement that wouldn’t rest until the President of the United States released his birth certificate proving that he was born in the United States. Of course, some of his followers believe it is a forgery. Some of them just can’t be convinced.
It’s no wonder that he has the support of Klan leader, David Duke, and the endorsement of the Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Joe Arpaio, who has been repeatedly held in contempt of court for illegally stopping and detaining Latino people whom he suspects might be illegally in the country based solely on the fact that they are Latinos.
It now appears that the Mexicans are responsible for more of his legal woes.
Trump’s scam called Trump University has been on the losing end of a series of court rulings in a case pending in in the United States District Court in San Diego, California in which it is a defendant. In his view the reason that he is losing in court, isn’t because his business is a scam, it is because the judge presiding over the case, Hon. Gonzalo Curiel, is Mexican.
Never mind that the Judge was born in Indiana. Who knows? That birth certificate could be a forgery too.
Never mind that the judge was a federal prosecutor who was on the Kill List of a Mexican drug cartel. He must be biased against Trump because he is a Mexican….even if he’s not.
This morning, he expanded the class of judges who couldn’t be fair to him to include Muslim judges too.
Trump, however, isn’t biased against all immigrants. He has been married to two. His first wife, Ivana, was born in the Czech Republic when it was still part of the Soviet bloc. His current wife, Melania, was born in Slovenia when it was part of Yugoslavia. This may explain Trump’s apparent crush on Vladimer Putin.
One would expect that being an immigrant herself, Melania Trump would have some sensitivity about where people were born. No so. In a recent interview with New Yorker Magazine, Mrs. Trump’s appearance on the Joy Behar Show in 2011 was recounted in which defended her husband’s ridiculous “Birther” campaign against the President and insisted that the President’s birth certificate was not real.
After observing and participating in politics for most of my life, I have one unwavering belief.
It is that there is nothing more entertaining in the political world than a 24 carat hypocrite.