Trump breaks promise, talks about Judge Curiel

Published June 8, 2016 3:20am ET



Hours after Donald Trump issued a statement that he would no longer comment on the judge overseeing his cases about Trump University, the presumptive Republican nominee ate his words in a Fox News interview.

Trump admitted to host Sean Hannity he does not care about the judge’s nationality, a significant walkback from comments made over the past few days that U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel could not oversee his case because of his Mexican ethnicity, even though he was born in the U.S.

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