Donald Trump Says that a Muslim Judge Could be Biased Against Him

By Soham Samaddar - 06 Jun '16 09:47AM

The presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for the 2016 Presidential elections, Donald Trump is known to often land in hot water due to his rather outspoken views has done it again and considering his stance on Muslims, it would not do him any good as far as public perception is concerned. Trump is currently embroiled in a lawsuit against Trump University and since the judge presiding over the case is a man of Mexican origin named Gonzalo Curiel, he believes that the judge would not be fair in his verdict.

Trump had earlier stated that he would like to build a wall in order to stop illegal entry of immigrants from Mexico and thinks that the judge might no be fair towards the university in the trial. On Sunday, he appeared on Face the Nation on CBS and said, "He is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican, which is all fine. But I say he's got bias. I want to build a wall. I'm going to build a wall. I'm doing very well with the Latinos, with the Hispanics, with the Mexicans - I'm doing very well with them, in my opinion."

However, Trump was not done yet and as expected, the host of the show John Dickerson threw him a curveball asking if he would react in the same way if the judge was a Muslim. Trump had earlier stated that he would like to ban anymore Muslims from entering the United States due to internal security fears and had created one of the biggest controversies during his extraordinary campaign. Trump seemed completely unfazed by the question and replied, "It's possible, yes. Yeah. That would be possible, absolutely," Earlier, Trump had been relentless in his attack on Judge Curiel and when asked if it would affect his goodwill with the Hispanic population, he said, "I think I'm going to do very well with Hispanics, but we're building a wall. He's a Mexican. We're building a wall between here and Mexico. The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings, rulings that people can't even believe. This case should have ended years ago."