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Donald Trump is obviously bothered by Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) very accurate attacks on his fitness for office.
This Sunday morning, Trump tweeted that he hoped former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton picked “goofy” Elizabeth Warren “sometimes referred to as Pocahontas” as her running mate, because she would be “nothing” today if she hadn’t lied about her heritage.
If Goofy Elizabeth Warren, a very weak Senator, didn't lie about her heritage (being Native American) she would be nothing today. Pick her H
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 17, 2016
I hope that Crooked Hillary picks Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, as her V.P. Then we can litigate her fraud!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 17, 2016
Donald Trump is one of those white people who thinks that anyone who has a “heritage” other than white gets special treatment. He literally thinks that Elizabeth Warren got ahead because she is part American Indian.
This is not true. The Atlantic pointed out in 2012, when this false attack first started, that Warren never sought to take advantage of affirmative action policies during her education:
Warren, who graduated from the University of Houston in 1970 and got her law degree from Rutgers University in 1976, did not seek to take advantage of affirmative action policies during her education, according documents obtained by the Associated Press and The Boston Globe. On the application to Rutgers Law School she was asked, “Are you interested in applying for admission under the Program for Minority Group Students?†“No,†she replied.
So this whine is inaccurate and thus even more petulant than the rage against affirmative action.
The New York Times called this attack on Warren “straight from the Republican cookbook of fake controversy.†They also noted, “For the Cherokee Nation, Warren is ‘Indian enough’; she has the same blood quantum as Cherokee Nation Chief Bill John Baker.”
False controversy is false, so naturally Donald Trump, who relies on Breitbart and Drudge for his news, is using this stale, debunked attack.
This kind of resentment is exactly why our country is so divided right now; Trump plays on the feelings of white people who feel screwed over and left behind. He points the fingers at minorities, suggesting that they get everything, they stole from the white people.
Billionaire trust fund baby Donald Trump feels that Elizabeth Warren, born to middle class parents, got ahead because she claimed to be a minority — not because of hard work or exceptional discipline. But in fact, Warren was the first in her family to get a college degree. She didn’t inherit millions, unlike Donald Trump.
Former Harvard law professor Sen. Warren has credits on her resume that Donald Trump can’t even fathom. For example, she helped create and oversaw as an interim director the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Warren has attacked Trump by pointing out facts about him, and that’s why he is so rabid about her.
On his Pence pick, she tweeted:
Of COURSE @realDonaldTrump – a guy who calls women fat pigs & bimbos – picked a VP who is famous for trying to control women’s bodies.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) July 16, 2016
She called him out on being against financial regulations, “Donald Trump’s position is “to roll back all” of the financial regulations passed after the financial crisis”, which PolitiFact rated as Mostly True (that’s a rating Donald Trump rarely gets from fact checkers).
Donald Trump claimed on Meet the Press that Warren “lied when she says I want to abolish the federal minimum wage.” That got a Mostly False, with a nod that Warren had gotten the better of Trump.
And that’s why Trump is pouting this morning. Warren has Trump’s number.
In late June, the Democratic Senator did an interview with the View during which she explained why she was calling Trump out earlier than others, “Oh my God, that man is not ready to be president of the United States. That man is dangerous. That man holds a bunch of views that are really horrible views.”
Cue the wailing, racist whine from Donald Trump’s Twitter account. So presidential.
Donald Trump is afraid of Elizabeth Warren, so he resorts to racist taunts fit for a playground bully.
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