“I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump — a hater. He’s a hater. His name is Gonzalo Curiel. And he is not doing the right thing,” Trump told supporters, kicking off a 12-minute rant on why Judge Curiel was biased against him and should recuse himself from the case. “We’re in front of a very hostile judge. The judge was appointed by Barack Obama, federal judge. Frankly, he should recuse himself because he’s given us ruling after ruling after ruling, negative, negative, negative,” Trump continued. “What happens is the judge, who happens to be — we believe — Mexican. Which is great. I think that’s fine. You know what? I think the Mexicans are going to end up loving Donald Trump when I give all these jobs, OK?” he said.
“I’m telling you, this court system, judges in this court system, federal court, they ought to look into Judge Curiel. Because what Judge Curiel is doing is a total disgrace, OK?” Trump said.
Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel was born in East Chicago, Indiana. Curiel’s parents, however, are Mexican, according to a 2002 New York Times report of the judge’s work in the Southern District of California’s narcotics enforcement division. Curiel received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Indiana University in 1976 and his Juris Doctor from the Indiana University School of Law in 1979. He is also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and was initiated at the Alpha Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity in 1974. In 1977, Curiel along with a frat brother became a founding member of the Bloomington, Ind. Kappa Alumni Chapter, according to watchtheyard.com, a Black Greek life web site.
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This is an excerpt from a post that his fraternity brother, Michael Gordon wrote about him on Facebook.
“Gonzalo Curiel, was one of our students at Indiana University and a member of Alpha Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity which had been founded at Indiana University in 1911. Gonzalo was beginning as a student at Indiana University Law school at that time. It is a rather long and complicated story behind this, but the gist of it is that I, a brand new professor at Indiana University and Gonzalo, he and I only, formed a committee of two persons, to organize and apply for a Charter, for the first time in its history, an Alumni Chapter of the fraternity, right there in Bloomington, Indiana, in order to provide more and direct counseling, advisorship, and more accountability for undergraduates at our very first chapter in the nation. This was in 1977, and I became the very first President of that new chapter, president in our fraternity is called “Polemarch”, and I was appointed by the Province Polemarch as the Alpha Chapter Faculty Advisor.”
Not only is Judge Curiel a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, he crossed through the fraternity’s Alpha Chapter in early 1970s and is a charter member of the Bloomington (IN) Alumni Chapter.
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