Elizabeth Warren speaks with members of congress before President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union on January 12, 2016. | Getty Warren: Trump is a 'loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud'

Elizabeth Warren is sharply escalating her attacks on Donald Trump, dubbing the presumptive nominee a "loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud" who is in league with House and Senate GOP leaders Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.

The Massachusetts senator will rip into Trump on Thursday with a searing attack on his "racism" as an extension of the Republican Party's strategy of blocking a Supreme Court nominee while they confirm just a trickle of judges. In a speech before the American Constitution Society, Warren will argue that Trump's attacks on District Judge Gonzalo Curiel are just an extension of the congressional GOP's playbook.


“Where do you suppose Donald Trump got the idea that he can personally attack judges, regardless of the law, whenever they don’t bend to the whims of billionaires and big business?" Warren will say according to prepared remarks. “Trump isn’t a different kind of candidate. He’s a Mitch McConnell kind of candidate. Exactly the kind of candidate you’d expect from a Republican Party whose 'script' for several years has been to execute a full-scale assault on the integrity of our courts."

While Warren's attack on McConnell serves as a complement to Harry Reid's rhetorical campaign to link the Senate majority leader to Trump, Warren will also pivot to House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has called Trump's rhetoric "racist" in the wake of the nominee's claim that Curiel's ethnicity may have influenced his handling of a Trump University case.

"Paul Ryan condemned Trump’s campaign for its attacks on Judge Curiel’s integrity. Great. Where’s Paul Ryan’s condemnation of the blockade, the intimidation, the smears, and the slime against the integrity of qualified judicial nominees and Judge Garland?" Warren will say.

"Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell want Donald Trump to appoint the next generation of judges. They want those judges to tilt the law to favor big business and billionaires like Trump," Warren continues. "They just want Donald to quit being so vulgar and obvious about it. Donald Trump chose racism as his weapon, but his aim is exactly the same as the rest of the Republicans. Pound the courts into submission to the rich and powerful.”

The speech is likely to only heighten the feud between Warren and Trump, who has repeatedly called the Massachusetts senator "Pocahantas" over questions about her Native American ancestry that were raised in her 2012 Senate race.