If you’re Mexican, you’re “inherently” in a conflict of interest with Trump. Period.
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (2.5 minute read)
“I’m building a wall. It’s an inherent conflict of interest.”
-Donald Trump, in a Wall Street Journal interview, referring to U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel who is presiding over two class action lawsuits against Trump University. Trump called Curiel a “hater.”
There is no inference, nothing to read between the lines, Donald Trump believes that being Mexican or of Mexican descent is a conflict of interest with his version of America. It’s as plain as that.
He said it on the record
It’s not because of anything Mexicans did or do, it’s because Trump has promised to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to keep Mexicans out. The Republican presidential nominee says that promise alone puts 35 million people in the U.S. in conflict with him.
He also says that “the Hispanics” love him, and that they’ll vote for him because of the many jobs he’ll bring (please excuse the primary level of rhetoric, but this is as complex as Trump gets on the issues.) So I take it that by “the Hispanics” he means all non-Mexican or non-Mexican descent Latinos in the U.S., or 35 percent of U.S. Latinos.
[pullquote]Trump is the ultimate authority in his convoluted universe.[/pullquote]Trump’s calculus
(more like basic arithmetic, but anyway . . . )
Conventional thinking says that in order to win the presidency a candidate must get 40 percent of the Latino vote, so it’s hard to understand his math. He’s left himself only 35 percent of Latinos with no conflcit of interest, and assuming that all non-Mexican Latinos vote for him, he’ll need to make up another 5 percent somewhere.
I may be over thinking this . . .
. . . because the national mainstream media doesn’t seem to care.
Trump’s “conflict of interest” statement happened yesterday and the national media has given Trump the usual bye. No follow-up, no think pieces, no analysis. Nada.
It’s a stretch to say that the national media is in cahoots with Trump, because that would asume that they’re aware of what they do. But there’s conflicting evidence to the contray. The Washington Post, the New York Times and Huffington Post have all reported that Trump has received $2 billion in free media attnetion. So they know what he’s doing, and they let him do it anyway because . . . Trump.
That seems to be the go-to logic
Trump says the mere fact of being Mexican puts 35 million people in the U.S. in conflict with him because of an issue he manufactured. And it’s OK by the media because . . . Trump.
He further says that in spite of this “the Hispanics” love him, and the mainstream media doesn’t question it because . . . Trump.
The man is the ultimate authority in his convoluted universe (Aren’t we all, really? But that’s another story.).
There’s nothing to add to this. He is the oil to Mexican’s water. In his world Mexicans are to blame for not liking him. What a perfectly delusional set up.
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