One day after endorsing Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan disavowed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s accusations of bias against the judge in the Trump University case because of his “Mexican heritage.”
Ryan told WISN’s “Up Front with Vicki McKenna” on Friday that the comment was “out of left field.”
“It’s reasoning I don’t relate to. I completely disagree with the thinking behind that,” Ryan said.
And in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Trump should be doing more to unite Republicans. Though McConnell said he was unfamiliar with Trump’s comments about…
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