US presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Sunday that Muslim judges would be biased against him because of his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US.
In recent days, Trump has repeatedly accused a Mexican-American judge of being biased against him because of a separate proposal Trump has made to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.
The judge, Gonzalo Curiel, is overseeing a fraud case against the now-defunct Trump University.
"He [Curiel] is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican, which is all fine," Trump said Sunday on the CBS News program Face the Nation. "But I say he's got bias. I want to build a wall. I'm going to build a wall.”
Face The Nation host John Dickerson then asked Trump if a Muslim judge would treat him fairly after the call for a “complete and total shutdown” on Muslims entering the US, Trump said: “That would be possible. Absolutely.”
Trump adds Muslim judges to the list of those that would be biased against him https://t.co/MUfS0OB696 https://t.co/u1LKj1r9Yi
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) June 5, 2016
When Dickerson noted that there is a tradition in the US against judging people based on their religious heritage, Trump said: “I’m not talking about tradition. I’m talking about common sense, okay?”
@BuzzFeedNews so pretty much anyone with a brain has a biased against him ....
— BasicBecky (@sixxxgoddess) June 5, 2016
Trump reminds you that a woman, gay, Muslim, disabled, immigrant, Af-American or former POW judge would be unfairly biased against him too.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 6, 2016
In December, Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown” on Muslims entering the US until lawmakers could figure out how to stop Islamic extremism.
Trump later walked back the proposed ban, saying it was only a “suggestion.”
(Hat tip: BuzzFeed)
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