Here are 20 GOP lawmakers blasting Donald Trump for his racist attack on Judge Curiel

This is brutal

The party fires back.
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Donald Trump may have finally gone too far — even if he claims that his comments have simply been "misconstrued." The presumptive GOP nominee's recent call for U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a civil lawsuit against Trump University, to recuse himself from the case because of his Mexican heritage, has pushed many Republican lawmakers to vehemently speak out against their party's presidential standard-bearer, and, in some cases, even to un-endorse Trump.

Trump contends that there's a conflict of interest in Curiel ruling on the Trump U case because of the Republican presidential candidate's proposal to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Here's what 20 of Trump's fellow Republicans have to say about that:

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