Donald Trump’s criticisms of the federal judge handling the Trump University case, U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel,  based on his Mexican heritage should be “absolutely disavowed” as they were the “textbook definition of racist comments,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday, reports Newsmax.

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