Charles Koch's top aides are set to meet with Trump’s team after they reached out weeks ago. | Getty Charles Koch: Trump judge attack 'unacceptable'

Billionaire Charles Koch is the latest big name on the right to criticize Donald Trump’s attack on U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel.

“It’s either racist or it’s stereotyping. It’s unacceptable, and it’s taking the country in the wrong direction,” he told USA Today in an interview published on Wednesday.


Despite condemning his attacks on Curiel, the Indiana-born judge presiding over two civil lawsuits against Trump University, Koch’s top aides are set to meet with Trump’s team after it reached out weeks ago, according to the report.

“We are happy to talk to anybody and hope they understand where we’re coming from, and they will have more constructive positions than they’ve had,” Koch said.

Koch also said that the presumptive Republican nominee would need to change major aspects of his policy and rhetoric before the billionaire industrialist could get behind the Manhattan mogul’s campaign, drawing attention to free speech and free trade among several positions Trump would have to unequivocally support.

Earlier in the race, Trump criticized his GOP primary rivals for soliciting donations from Charles and his brother David, who have spent millions funding candidates and right-leaning institutions across the United States.

“I wish good luck to all of the Republican candidates that traveled to California to beg for money etc. from the Koch Brothers,” Trump tweeted. “Puppets?”