On her show on Thursday evening, Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly was completely incensed by Donald Trump’s continued attacks on district judge Gonzalo Curiel.
Trump recently said that Curiel, the judge presiding over the current Trump University lawsuit, has a conflict of interest in the case purely because of his heritage, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Moments after hearing this news, Kelly went off on the Republican candidate, debunking many of his claims about Curiel. First, she points out that Curiel is a member of a Hispanic lawyers’ association with no partisan affiliation whatsoever, not a member of a group that has been protesting Donald Trump as has been claimed. Kelly then points out out that Curiel is not even Mexican as Trump continues to say. Rather, the judge was born in Indiana.
“He has no conflict of interest,” Kelly said. “Now Donald Trump is saying the judge needs to be investigated, someone should look into him, just because he’s ruled against Donald Trump in this litigation repeatedly…that doesn’t make you biased! It doesn’t.”
Kelly concluded by saying that Curiel is probably getting threats as a result of Trump’s hateful language. She knows that vitriol well, considering Trump and his supporters went after her for nearly nine straight months on Twitter.
