WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren suggested President Donald Trump’s comment about him personally administering a DNA test to her to prove her Native American heritage is “creepy.”
She tweeted that the president makes “creepy physical threats” about women who scare him, including her.
“He’s trying to do what he always does to women who scare him: call us names, attack us personally, shrink us down to feel better about himself,” the Massachusetts Democrat responded on Twitter on Monday after Trump made the comment during an appearance in Georgia. “It may soothe his ego – but it won’t work.”
Warren, who is seen as a potential 2020 challenger to Trump, appears to have taken a page out of his political playbook, striking back almost instantly at the president who continues to ridicule her claim of Native American ancestry. Trump relishes a good fight, those close to him have said, and will hit back twice as hard when he’s been attacked.
A sharp critic of Trump, Warren wasted little time going after him on Monday.
She opened the day by releasing DNA test results that provide some evidence of a Native American in her lineage, though the ancestor probably lived six to 10 generations ago, according to the analysis. Trump has ridiculed her as “Pocahontas” over the ancestry claim.
In July, the president offered to donate $1 million to her favorite charity if a DNA test proved her Native American bloodline.
On Monday, he first denied ever making such a promise, then said later that “I’ll only do it if I can test her personally.”
“That will not be something I enjoy doing either,” he added.
Warren tweeted that Trump is a “cowardly elitist” and she “won’t sit quietly for Trump’s racism” so she took the test.
“I took this test and released the results for anyone who cares to see because I’ve got nothing to hide. What are YOU hiding, @realDonaldTrump?” she wrote. “Release your tax returns – or the Democratic-led House will do it for you soon enough. Tick-tock, Mr President.”
Warren was referring to the Nov. 6 election, when Democrats hope to regain control of the House, which would put them in position to examine and possibly publicly release Trump’s returns.
Trump has bucked decades of precedent by refusing to release his income tax returns during the 2016 presidential election, as well as after taking office.
I believe that Sen. Warren does scare the shit out of that pig. But most strong women do intimidate him. The worse thing that could ever happen tubbyfakehair is being beat by a girl. That just may happen.
Dumpy has Scottish ( Warrior ) blood , BUT HE RAN AWAY 6 TIMES .
You can ignore the imbecile or you can do what Warren is doing and fight back. It’s not the way things used to be done, but it’s a different, disgusting reality. If everyone that he criticized came back at him again and again, maybe he’d shut up. Only dreaming.
As a liar and con man, Trump was just blowing smoke about Senator Warren’s ancestry. He doesn’t care about the truth of her actual ancestry, and never pays his debts. His hardcore followers like this about him. They are bad people, and like Trump speaking for them.
But she has to be strategic about how she fights back, or she will just become more entertainment fodder at the rallies. My suggestion (mentioned by another TPMer) is that she sues him for breach of contract. If he’s actually forced to pay up he’ll look like a loser in front of the base. He’ll hate that.