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"The people asking the questions — those are the racists," Donald Trump reportedly said of the media. | Getty Report: Trump orders surrogates to attack media as 'racists'

Donald Trump is well known for attacking the media, calling out individual journalists as "sleazy" and barring or physically removing others from his campaign events.

On Monday, Trump told high-profile supporters in a conference call to start attacking the media for asking questions about the Trump University lawsuit, Bloomberg Politics reports. Trump has said the judge in the case, an Indiana-born man of Mexican heritage, can't be impartial in the case because Trump wants to build a wall along the border with Mexico.

"The people asking the questions — those are the racists," Trump reportedly said. "I would go at 'em."

In particular, Trump told his surrogates to go after television reporters, whom he called "hypocrites," according to Bloomberg.

Trump has faced tough television interviews in recent days, with CNN's Jake Tapper and CBS News' John Dickerson grilling him over his comments about the judge. Tapper made 23 attempts to get Trump to answer whether his comments were racist, while Dickerson asked Trump whether he would also consider a Muslim judge to be biased against him.

Trump's reply? “It’s possible, yes. Yeah. That would be possible, absolutely."