GOP And Halperin Refuse to Denounce Trump's Racial Attacks

As Donald Trump expands his attacks on the Mexican ancestry of Judge Curiel, who is presiding over a lawsuit against Trump, to now include questioning whether even a Muslim judge could be neutral in handling his case, it is sad to see just how many Republicans stand by and accept this blatant racial animus.  Let’s put aside the fact that many of Judge Curiel’s rulings came long before Donald Trump even entered the Presidential race and headed down the road of open race-baiting. Or that Trump has produced no evidence of a pattern of bias in Judge Curiel’s rulings other than his heritage. Facts like that never get in the way of the Donald. But Alberto Gonzales shameful defense of Trump, Paul Ryan’s indefensible claim, only hours after endorsing him, that these Trump attacks come from “out of left field”, and the deafening silence of so many other GOP politicians only show that there is no politician with any courage in the Republican party to stand up, denounce, and renounce Trump the demagogue.  Poor Abraham Lincoln is probably spinning in his grave.

But as bad as the Republicans have been, you really have to hand it to Mark Halperin. Halperin is currently the senior political analyst for both MSNBC and Bloomberg and co-hosts a daily TV show, “With All Due Respect” with John Heilemann. On Friday, Halperin defended Trump’s attacks on Judge Curiel as not being racist because “Mexico isn’t a race”. With all due respect, I find that defense pretty indefensible.  It is hard to believe that, as of now, Halperin has not been reprimanded in any way by MSNBC or Bloomberg.