Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is doubling down on her criticism of Donald Trump, claiming that if the presumptive Republican presidential nominee wants her to direct her insults toward someone else, “it’s not happening.”
“What this is really about is: Can they bully me into shutting up?” Warren said of Trump and her former Senate opponent Scott Brown during an appearance Tuesday on ABC’s “The View.”
“Can they just be nasty enough and ugly enough and throw enough stuff in my direction that I’ll say, ‘Oh,’ and just go back into the shadows. And the answer is: nope, not happening,” she said.
Trump has repeatedly referred to Warren, a progressive icon who recently endorsed Hillary Clinton, as “Pocahontas” in addition to describing her as “one of the least productive senators” in Washington.
Brown, during a conference call with reporters on Monday, suggested that Warren “authorize the release” of her application to Harvard University or “take a DNA test” to prove her Native American ancestry.
“As you know, she’s not Native American. She’s not 1/32 Cherokee,” Brown said. “It’s a reverse form of racism, quite frankly.”
“You know, Donald Trump will say or do anything, and so will Scott Brown,” Warren charged. “Like most people, my brothers and I learned about who we are from our families, and people who have hired me for my jobs, the work I’ve done, have all said that my background didn’t have anything to do with it. In fact, they mostly didn’t know about it.”
Warren joined Clinton for their first joint campaign appearance on Monday in the battleground state of Ohio. The Massachusetts Democrat has fueled vice presidential speculation in recent weeks by meeting with Clinton on several occasions and declaring her support for the former secretary of state despite Clinton’s strong ties to Wall Street.
