The Decline and Fall of Elizabeth Warren
2:00 AM, Mar 23, 2018 | By Fred Barnes
The Trump era has been tough on Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and no one has been tougher on her than President Trump himself, with his references to her as “Pocahontas.â€
With the nickname, the president is playing brass-knuckles politics to remind voters of her undocumented claim to Cherokee Indian heritage. To be politically correct, Warren says she is “part Native American†through her mother’s side of the family.
Warren says she’ll fight back against Trump. “I went to speak to Native American leaders, and I made a promise to them,†she said in a TV interview. “Every time President Trump wants to throw out some kind of racial slur, he wants to try to attack me, I’m going to try to use it as a chance to lift up their stories.â€
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