Trump's Latino surrogates recoil, threaten to resign in wake of hate-filled immigration speech

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Katie Glueck ‏@katieglueck 7h7 hours ago
NEWS ne Trump Hispanic advisory board council member quits after Trump speech; Alfonso Aguilar rethinking support https://t.co/tOsnMaTDNL

Jacob Monty, a member of Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council, has resigned, and Alfonso Aguilar, the president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, said in an interview that he is “inclined” to pull his support.

“I was a strong supporter of Donald Trump when I believed he was going to address the immigration problem realistically and compassionately,” said Monty, a Houston attorney who has aggressively made the Latino case for Trump. “What I heard today was not realistic and not compassionate.”

He withdrew from the board following Trump’s speech in Phoenix, which was heavy on calls for border security and emphasized that all immigrants in the country illegally were subject to deportation.

“When we met earlier in August he was going to approach this issue with a realistic plan, a compassionate plan, with a plan that was not disruptive to the immigrants that were here that were not lawbreakers,” said Monty, one of the Latino leaders who met with the candidate at Trump Tower recently, a gathering at which Trump reportedly softened his tone toward undocumented immigrants already in the country. “He didn’t deliver any of that.”

“It’s so disappointing because we feel we took a chance, a very risky chance,” Aguilar said. “We decided to make a big U-turn to see if we could make him change. We thought we were moving in the right direction … we’re disappointed. We feel misled.”

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Alfonso Aguilar ‏@amigoaguilar 7h7 hours ago
This is how I feel: disappointed and misled

[Gothmog]

1. Trump will be lucky to break single digits with Latino voters

[Lochloosa]

2. Disappointed? Really? Who the fuck have you been listening to the last year?

“It’s so disappointing because we feel we took a chance, a very risky chance,” Aguilar said. “We decided to make a big U-turn to see if we could make him change. We thought we were moving in the right direction … we’re disappointed. We feel misled.”

[redwitch]

4. Some people need to be hit on the head really hard.

I am astounded that there are any supporters among Latinos.

[SDJay]

16. Exactly What I Was Thinking...

"Drumpf has Latino surrogates?"

[oasis]

3. They were opportunists who hitched their wagons to a dark star.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Don't threaten, just do it

Trump isn't going to magically become unracist.

[anneboleyn]

6. Alfonso Aguilar live on CNN withdrawing support from Trump

[Mc Mike]

7. He coaxed you guys right out onto the edge of the limb with him,

then he went back to the trunk, and sawed the limb off. Little donnie is good at that.

[SummerSnow]

8. he didn't hide who he was

[Lucky Luciano]

9. The rapists/drug dealer comments didn't resonate the first time I guess?! nt

[workinclasszero]

12. No kidding!

What the hell is wrong with these people? Do they think Trump is joking?

[CanonRay]

10. Nazi Party supporters in 1932: We were misled n/t

[workinclasszero]

13. Bingo!

History repeating itself?

[steve2470]

21. yep you nailed it nt

[lame54]

11. Trump's National Hispanic Advisory Council? - WTF?

[Hulk]

14. Surprise, surprise.

When are these minority and middle class and struggling citizens going to step into reality.

The republiKKKans DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU, NEVER HAVE, AND NEVER WILL. Stop being such gullible, unrealistic fools. Tour stubborn ignorance is dragging this country down! Enough already.

[calimary]

18. That's a really good point, Hulk. And it bears repeating again and again.

And yet again.

republi-CONS. THEY DON'T WANT TO HELP YOU. They DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU, NEVER have, and NEVER will. They DON'T WANT TO HELP YOU. That's their bedrock "philosophy." They don't believe in it. They don't believe in government. They don't believe in a larger entity (like - GOVERNMENT) that is there to serve the greater good. They don't believe in it. They're the "sucks to be you. You're on your own. Lotsa luck, chumps" crowd. Not a bit interested.

And, mind you, these are the same folks who wrap themselves around the Cross of Christ and pontificate up the ting-yang about how "Christian" they are. They're not interested in loving thy neighbor as thyself. They don't give a damn about the whole "my brother's keeper" thing. They're the Sucks-To-Be-You crowd. They're the IGMFU crowd. "I Got Mine, F-U."

[Hulk]

22. Well said

The electorate are such gullible fools.

Maybe if we got the election cycle down to 6 weeks instead if 18 months, we might concentrate on the reality and less on the smoke and mirrors.

[rocktivity]

15. I hope Bon Jovi's drummer Tico Torres

tries to buy back the painting he sold Trump and cancels the fundraiser he's planned on his Florida golf course.


rocktivity

[calimary]

17. I don't know why they're surprised, or even disappointed.

Seriously. Who did they think they were climbing into bed with, in the first place?

Seems like a classic case of trying VERY hard to fool oneself into thinking Beelzebub is the Archangel Gabriel. Makes me think of that fable about the scorpion needing to cross the river, and sweet-talking the fox into giving it a piggyback ride across the water. "Don't worry, says the scorpion! I won't sting you!" The fox isn't sure, justifiably fearing for its safety, but the scorpion soothes - "well, why would I? It'd mean I'd drown, too." The fox gives in, throws caution to the wind, and decides to take "a chance. A very risky chance." And guess what happens? Yep, sure enough, let Scorpion be Scorpion! What the hell DID you expect, anyway? Stings the fox about halfway across the river, and as they're both, indeed, drowning, the fox asks - "WHY?" and the scorpion responds - "because I'm a scorpion. That's what I do."

We cannot afford to risk giving Donald Trump a ride across the proverbial river on our backs. I don't know what on earth these "Latino surrogates" were thinking. All they do is prove themselves to be chumps. They swallowed the poison, knowing it was poison, but hoping in vain that it might be chocolate (or maybe at least chocolate-flavored). Seriously, what on earth did they expect?

"Extreme vetting! I call it extreme vetting!" Well, let's not forget, he hasn't forgotten about the torture option. He's already said he's fine with it and would willingly indulge... Hey, why stop with "terrorists"?

[Hekate]

23. I'm sure he told them he'd still respect them in the morning

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. That's what you get for thinking Conservative = Strong / Liberal = Weak.....

Seriously, that's how simple minded some people are.

That and a TERROR about taxes that didn't exist before Reagan.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. What they need to come to grips with is that

he considers them "the help". Nothing more.

“It’s so disappointing because we feel we took a chance, a very risky chance,” Aguilar said. “We decided to make a big U-turn to see if we could make him change. We thought we were moving in the right direction … we’re disappointed. We feel misled.”

The only thing that Trump is consistent about is whatever he feels will benefit himself at that specific point of time. Period. No thought or consideration is ever given to formulating long term or short term strategies. It is literally a minute by minute thing. I think one of the political cartoons posted in another thread showed it the best -

[exalted circles]

24. they are the special one`s,waiting for the great softening