Bigotry is not strong leadership, Trump told

UNITED NATIONS – The UN rights chief took a swipe at US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump Friday, accusing him of exploiting fear and resorting to bigotry in campaigning that he warned was a “road to violence.” Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein delivered the blunt criticism in a speech at a university in Cleveland, Ohio, where Republicans will gather in July to choose their White House nominee. Over the past months, Trump has promised to build a wall on the US-Mexico border to keep out migrants and to ban Muslims from entering the United States. “Bigotry is not proof of strong leadership,” said Zeid, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “Hate speech, incitement and marginalization of the ‘other’ are not a tittering form of entertainment, or a respectable vehicle for political profit,” he said. “To casually toss this gasoline on the smoldering embers of fear is to risk great harm to [...]