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2016 US ELECTION

Trump backs down under Republican fire in race row

– ‘No place for racism’ –

Trump inflamed the US political establishment but emerged victorious in the Republican race to run for president with a controversial campaign denouncing illegal immigration, promising to build a wall along the southern US border and branding Mexicans criminals, as well as insulting women and the media.

He asserted in an interview published last week that Curiel has “an absolute conflict” of interest because of his “Mexican heritage” and because he is a member of a Mexican-American lawyers association.

With Clinton poised to make history as the first woman nominee for president of a major US party, Republicans rounded on Trump in public for questioning the bedrock of American democracy – an impartial judiciary.

Despite his climb down, Trump insisted he was justified in asking whether he will receive a fair trial, currently slated to start weeks after the November general election.

Trump said “unfair and mistaken rulings,” the judge’s “reported” associations and his status as an Obama appointee, meant it was fair to raise questions regarding his impartiality given his “unique circumstances as a nominee of the Republican party” and given the issues on which he has campaigned.

He lashed out at the media for reporting “one inaccuracy after another” in the Trump University litigation, insisted that the students were given a “valuable education” and claimed he would win the case.

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