Republican leaders react to Trump's latest racist rantings that came 'totally out of left field'

by Hunter for Daily Kos Elections

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Friday, Jun. 03, 2016 Friday, Jun. 03, 2016 at 10:23:55am PDT

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 21: House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaks to the media during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, on April 21, 2016 in Washington, DC. In a recent interview Ryan vowed there would be no government shutdown despite party divisions. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) — Yeah, he's completely stumped. How could this have happened ... yet again?

The morning after House Speaker Paul Ryan stuffed his remaining dignity in a sack and threw it into the river, he's supposedly reeling from presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's ongoing racial tirades against the judge hearing the case against Trump University. Trump's contribution yesterday was the claim that the U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel had an "absolute" conflict of interest in the case because he was "of Mexican heritage."

Paul Ryan's response to this latest demonstration of Trump's blunt racism?

Trump comments on Judge Curiel "out of left field .. i completely disagree w/the thinking behind that." - Paul Ryan on radio just now
— Jon Ward (@jonward11) June 3, 2016

Oh, yeah. Nobody could have seen that coming.

It still might be better than Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's truly pathetic response to Trump's insistence that Americans "of Mexican heritage" ought not judge cases against him (or report on him, or ask him questions at his events, and so forth.)

"Donald Trump is certainly a different kind of candidate." -- Mitch McConnell's response to Trump attacking a fed judge for being "Mexican"
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 3, 2016

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Your presidential candidate just went on a tirade against a sitting U.S. judge for having "Mexican heritage", and that merely counts as being a "different kind of candidate?"

Wow. That Republican rebranding just keeps picking up steam.