"It's just plain wrong, and certainly wrong coming from someone who is vying to become President of the United States,” Hillary Clinton said. | AP Photo Clinton to Maddow: Trump will attack women judges next

Hillary Clinton predicts Donald Trump will start attacking other demographics of judges, possibly including women or people with disabilities, after repeatedly accusing U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel of bias due to his Mexican heritage.

In an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Monday night, the presumptive Democratic nominee described how Trump’s “hateful rhetoric” could have a ripple effect on other groups.


“He's trying to demean and defame a federal judge who was a very accomplished federal prosecutor. … I imagine he'll move on to women judges because he's been insulting women so regularly, or maybe a judge with a disability, or perhaps one who was a former POW, or African-American,” she said when asked by Maddow about a potential “racial conflagration” in the country.

“This is dangerous nonsense that undermines the rule of law, that makes him appear to be someone who has no respect for fellow Americans, and I think it is yet more evidence why this man is dangerous and divisive and disqualified from being president," Clinton said.

The former secretary of state described Trump’s remark about Curiel, an Indiana-born judge who is presiding over two civil lawsuits over Trump University, a Trump-backed real estate seminar program, as an outright “racist attack.”

“I don't know what's in his heart, but I know what he's saying with respect to the judge. That's a racist attack. … I don't know what else you could call these attacks other than racist, other than prejudice, other than bigoted. It's just plain wrong, and certainly wrong coming from someone who is vying to become president of the United States,” she said.

Clinton added that she was first to call out Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants being “rapists” and “criminals” early in the campaign.

“I continue to point out that his kind of hateful rhetoric has to be repudiated no matter what party you are, or where you live, or what your background is,” she said.