Ryan: Trump made ‘textbook definition of a racist comment’

“While I oppose the Democratic nominee, Donald Trump’s latest statements, in context with past attacks on Hispanics, women and the disabled like me, make it certain that I can not and will not support my party’s nominee for President regardless of the political impact on my candidacy or the Republican Party”, he said.

“Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment”.

Ryan says he will still support Trump because his agenda is more likely to get enacted under Trump than Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump has said Curiel could not be impartial in his case because of his “Mexican heritage”.

Ryan said that the “mature and responsible thing” would be for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to disavow the comments about the judge, who is presiding over a case alleging that Trump University fleeced students.

Trump’s claims that a federal judge is biased because of “Mexican heritage” have been likened to Joe McCarthy-like Communist witch hunts, and have prompted pressure on Republican leaders to pull their support of the NY businessman.

“Today we are all Judge Gonzalo Curiel – and today we stand together as one nation, indivisible – no matter how hard someone tries to divide us”, Menendez (D-N.J.) said in a speech on the Senate floor. Without pausing to draw breath, he then continued: “But do I believe that Hillary Clinton is the answer?” Bob Corker of Tennessee – who only two days earlier had praised Trump’s “maturity” and foreign policy realism – appeared to have second thoughts.

Pence, who has endorsed Trump, addressed that criticism in his brief remarks to reporters on Tuesday. “And I don’t know if I’ll have a role in the convention, but I have a lot of people going there that are supporters“. “I think that should be absolutely disavowed, it’s absolutely unacceptable“. Backing Goldwater, said Lindsay, would represent a “retreat from principle” and “the historic Republican party principles that I represent”. Previous year after Graham told Trump to “stop being a jackass”, in reference to his remarks about Sen. “I am friends with and employ thousands of people of Mexican and Hispanic descent”, Trump wrote in the statement.

■ As Trump gained the spotlight amid his rise in the Republican primary, attention began to turn toward Trump University, a former business facing civil-action lawsuits. Curiel was born in IN to parents who emigrated from Mexico.