Diamond & Silk, the YouTube duo who have become outspoken Donald Trump supporters and have spoken at a number of his campaign events, defended Trump’s criticism of the judge hearing a fraud case against Trump University yesterday, saying that Trump appearing before a Mexican-American judge is just like a black defendant facing an all-white jury.
“Well, first of all, you know the judge is biased,” Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway told Newsmax’s J.D. Hayworth. “You know, he’s Mexican, he’s of Mexican descent, or his heritage is Mexican. And here’s the deal. It’s just like when you walk into a courtroom [as a] defendant and the jury is all white or vice versa, or when a defense team is defending a black client with an all-white jury.”
Avid Donald Trump fan Ann Coulter made a similar argument on Twitter last week:
Re: Trump University judge – hey, has the left ever criticized a jury for having a racial composition that was all white?
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 4, 2016
Re: Trump University – Does anyone know of ANY examples of liberals being skeptical of a verdict because the jury was all white?
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 4, 2016
Re: Trump University – Would liberals accept a white judge — under any circumstances – who was a member of an White Race organization?
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 4, 2016
