{"id":182122,"date":"2015-12-13T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/13\/antonin-scalia-is-too-extreme-for-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2015-12-13T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:01:00","slug":"antonin-scalia-is-too-extreme-for-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/13\/antonin-scalia-is-too-extreme-for-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonin Scalia is Too Extreme for \u2026\u2026\u2026 Donald Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/263074-trump-scalia-affirmative-action\">strange beyond belief<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he does not agree with comments from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia questioning the efficacy of affirmative action.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI don\u2019t like what he said, no, I don\u2019t like what he said. I heard him, I was like, \u2018Let me read it again,\u2019 because I actually read it in print, and I\u2019m going, I read a lot of stuff, and I\u2019m going, \u2018Woah,\u2019 \u201d Trump said in an interview televised Sunday on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The billionaire said he thought Scalia\u2019s comments were \u201cvery tough to the African-American community.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Trump, who has supported affirmative action in the past but declined to say whether he was in favor of it today, said he has great friendships with black people.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI have great African-American friendships,\u201d he said. \u201cI have just amazing relationships. And so many positive things have happened.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We f%$#ing live in f%$#ing Bizarro World.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this was an authentic statement from Trump, but honestly, I&#8217;m not sure when he is sincere, and when he is just trolling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is strange beyond belief: GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he does not agree with comments from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia questioning the efficacy of affirmative action.\u201cI don\u2019t like what he said, no, I don\u2019t like what he said. I heard him, I was like, \u2018Let me read it again,\u2019 because I actually &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,972,977,1001,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-justice","category-presidential-campaign","category-racism","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}