President Trump may not occupy the White House by the time 2020 comes around as he could be behind bars instead, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Sunday.
“By the time we get to 2020, Donald Trump may not even be president,” Warren, who officially declared her candidacy for president Saturday, said during a campaign event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “In fact, he may not even be a free person.”
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Since the early months of the Trump administration, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia has cast a shadow over Trump’s presidency.
The House and Senate Intelligence committees have also spent time probing Russia’s meddling in the election, and now that Democrats control the House and have gained subpoena power, investigations into Trump’s business dealings, finances, and presidential campaign are expected to ramp up.
Several of Trump’s former aides have been charged as a result of Mueller’s probe, though the White House has sought to distance the president from their wrongdoing.
Trump has taken particular aim at Warren, referring to her as “Pocahontas.” In a tweet after Warren’s campaign announcement Saturday, the president said he would see her “on the campaign TRAIL” — an apparent reference to the Trail of Tears which left thousands of Native Americans dead in the first half of the 1800s.
Warren, meanwhile, said 2020 could be a turning point for the country, as it “is going to determine the direction of our nation, the direction of our people.”
“Every day there’s a racist tweet, a hateful tweet, something really dark and ugly,” she told Iowa voters of Trump’s Twitter activity. “And what are we as candidates, as activists, the press going to do about it? We’re going to chase after those every day?”
