Donald Trump must be removed as a candidate

Trump campaign management is chaotic.....

Scott Pelley interview on CBS News

CBS' Evening News Highlights GOP Civil War Breaking Out Over Trump’s Racist Attacks

Scott Pelley: "The Man Who Will Soon Be The Head Of The Republican Party Appears To Be Threatening Its Chances For The White House, The House, And The Senate"

SCOTT PELLEY (HOST): 

Tonight Donald Trump is standing by his attack on the Mexican-American federal judge who is presiding over the Trump University fraud cases. In insisting that a Latino judge cannot be fair, Trump is picking a fight with exactly the voters he needs in November, Latinos. Major Garrett reports the man who will soon be the head of the Republican Party appears to be threatening its chances for the White House, the House, and the Senate.

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MAJOR GARRETT: Judge Gonzalo Curiel was born in Indiana to Mexican parents who became American citizens.

(TRUMP: We're going to have great borders. We're going to have the wall.)

GARRETT: Donald Trump, who wants to build a wall on the US-Mexican border, argues Curiel's heritage compromises his independence in the lawsuits.

GARRETT: This made Republican leaders who had begun to rally around the presumptive nominee recoil.

JASON CHAFFETZ: People are disturbed that you would want to try and dismiss a judge based on his ethnicity.

MARCO RUBIO: He needs to stop staying it. That man is an American.

SEN. BOB CORKER: I don't condone the comments.

PAUL RYAN: I completely disagree with the thinking behind that.  (Shame on Speaker Ryan for endorsing Trump, in the first place....)

MITCH MCCONNELL: I couldn't disagree more with what he had to say.

GARRETT: Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins has yet to endorse Trump.

SUSAN COLLINS: It was an appalling statement for Donald Trump to have made, completely unacceptable, and he owes the judge an apology, and he owes the American people an apology.

Scott Pelley CBS News comment and report

GARRETT: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse tweeted Trump's attacks are quote, "The literal definition of racism." Even for former speaker, Newt Gingrich, long a Trump ally, it was too much.

NEWT GINGRICH: This is one of the worst mistakes Trump has made, and I think it's inexcusable.

GARRETT: Trump appeared most unnerved by Gingrich's criticism.

GARRETT: This afternoon, in a call with close supporters, Trump doubled down and encouraged them to robustly defend his view of the case. Even Trump loyalists admit the campaign staff is too small and management chaotic. Today's conference is a classic example. Trump told supporters to discuss the pending lawsuit freely. The exact opposite of what his own campaign staff had been telling them to do.

(Listen up Reince Priebus....Republicans must remove Donald Trump as the party's presumptive nominee and nominate a qualified candidate.)

Donald Trump squeezed by bookend critics - Clinton and Ryan

My goodness, as we "live and breath"! 
Who knew Secretary Clinton and Speaker Ryan would ever agree on a Trumponian pomposity?  These "political bookends" could, potentially, squeeze Trump out of the nomination, because he's unqualified to receive it, unless he's trumped out of the race.

Obviously, Republicans have been politically deaf to the dangers of nominating the unstable Donald Trump to run for leader of the free world. Maybe, their political hearing will be revived with the decibels added by Clinton and Ryan, to now capture their attention.

Ryan, Clinton slam Trump over racial criticism of judge

By David Wright, Dan Merica and Jim Acosta CNN

(CNN) House Speaker Paul Ryan and Hillary Clinton on Friday condemned Donald Trump's racially tinged attacks on a judge overseeing a lawsuit against Trump University.

Speaker Paul Ryan should recall his stated support for unqualified Donald Trump to be nominated by the GOP

The comments come as Trump escalated his attacks against U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who last week ordered parts of internal documents, including "playbooks" regarding running the enterprise, to be released as part of a lawsuit against Trump University. 

Federal Judge Gonzolo Curiel is a respected member of the judiciary from Indiana

The documents were released in response to a request by The Washington Post.

Ryan's criticism -- coming one day after he (IMO shamefully!) endorsed his party's presumptive presidential nominee -- came unprompted during an interview on a Wisconsin radio station.

"Look, the comment about the judge, just was out of left field for my mind," Ryan said on WISN in Milwaukee. "It's reasoning I don't relate to, I completely disagree with the thinking behind that."

And then Ryan issued a warning to Trump that he will speak out when he feels he needs to.

"So he clearly says and does things I don't agree with and I've had to speak up on time to time when that has occurred and I'll continue to do that if that's necessary -- I hope it's not," Ryan said.

A top Republican official said Friday night that Trump's comments on Curiel are making huge waves in the party. "Awful," the official said. "We are all beside ourselves."

The official went on to say, "You have to feel for Paul Ryan," who had just announced his support for Trump before the billionaire told The Wall Street Journal Thursday night that Curiel had a conflict of interest due to his heritage.

A Trump official told CNN, "It's no reason to celebrate, (but) no reason to panic," an indication there is concern inside the campaign but they don't believe it's damaging long-term.

Another campaign adviser laughed when asked if Trump campaign officials can talk to the candidate about watching what he says.
Friday night, Republican Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake condemned Trump's rhetoric on Curiel.

".@realDonaldTrump's comments were ignorant, offensive & suggest a troubling disregard for the separation of powers," Flake tweeted.

Clinton lashes into Trump

(IMO Trump's ethnic attack on a Federal Judge crosses the line. He is unqualified to be nominated for the position of leader of the free world.)

Secretary Clinton is qualified by education, experience and wise temperament to be nominated to lead the free world

Later in the day, Secretary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, said Trump "has gone so far as to insult and attack a distinguished federal judge, a man who was appointed on his merits, a man born in Indiana, which last time I checked was part of America, to two Mexican parents, who is presiding now, the judge is, over a lawsuit pointing out how fraudulent Trump University is."

Speaking at a campaign event in Westminster, California, Clinton called Trump University "a con game that has benefited Donald Trump but hurt so many people including those who couldn't afford it" and added that the judge is "doing his job, that is what he got appointed to do."

Earlier in the day, Lorella Praeli, director of Latino outreach for the Clinton campaign, praised Curiel's experience and qualifications, saying, "Judge Curiel and his family epitomize the American Dream. His parents worked hard to give their U.S.-born children a better life. He and his brother became successful lawyers. His other brother served in Vietnam."

"In Trump's version of America, this Latino family isn't really America. But they are America. And Hillary Clinton will fight for ALL Americans," Praeli wrote.

Trump has controversially gone after Curiel, who is presiding over a class-action lawsuit against Trump's now-defunct training program in California, and suggested his "Mexican heritage" could prevent him from judging Trump fairly as a result of Trump's strident anti-immigration rhetoric.

Trump on Friday vociferously defended his claims about Curiel and pushed back against criticism.

"He's proud of his heritage. I respect him for that," Trump told CNN's Jake Tapper, dismissing charges that his allegation was racist. "He's a Mexican. We're building a wall between here and Mexico."

CNN's Theodore Schleifer contributed to this report.

(IMO Donald Trump's sweeping leaps of judgement about the ethnicity and the judiciary, is another symptom of an extremely unstable man.)