Trump representative quietly extends olive branch to Spanish-language media

Well, this is interesting. The guy in charge of the Trump empire's business development has requested a meeting with a pro-Latino media watchdog group that has been taking on Trump's racist claims. The group has heard from Trump's people several times in the last few months, but the tone of those initial interactions was very different, reports Hadas Gold.

Alex Nogales, CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, a leading advocacy group, told POLITICO he received a call last week from Lawrence Glick, executive vice president of strategic development at the Trump Organization, proposing the meeting. [...]

“[The first phone call] was to tell us if we continued our actions against his golf courses that he would sue us. … We had another call from another outside attorney [working for Trump] wanting to change the story of what he had said about Mexicans, that he was not against Mexican people that he was talking about the government, the most ridiculous assertion that could possibly be made,” Nogales said. “The third time, last week, was ‘Let’s get together to talk so we can solve our differences.’”

The Trump campaign declined to comment. The Trump Organization — the entity overseeing his golf courses, hotels, product lines and other businesses — also declined to comment. Lawrence Glick did not return requests for comment.

Oh goodness ... don't tell the GOP base! Nothing could look as weak as negotiating with the enemy just because it turns out painting a powerful and ever-growing segment of the U.S. population as "criminal" could bring financial ruin.

Hard to tell from the piece if this is purely a business decision or if it might also have implications for Trump's approach in the campaign. But it's hard to imagine how you "solve" differences after you've indiscriminately called an entire group of people "drug dealers" and "rapists" and "murderers." That sort of poisons the well, no?