Donald Trump took to Twitter to encourage Hillary Clinton to choose Elizabeth Warren as her running mate, calling the Massachusetts senator both a “flunky” and a “fraud” who lied about her Native American heritage.
“I hope corrupt Hillary Clinton choses goofy Elizabeth Warren as her running mate. I will defeat them both,” Trump tweeted on Friday evening.
He went on to question Warren’s ethnic heritage, tweeting “Lets properly check goofy Elizabeth Warren’s records to see if she is Native American. I say she’s a fraud!”
He concluded, “Goofy Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton’s flunky, has a career that is totally based on a lie. She is not Native American.”
Goofy Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton’s flunky, has a career that is totally based on a lie. She is not Native American.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 6, 2016
Trump’s comments come as the Clinton campaign has begun to search for possible vice presidential picks. While Warren has not pledged her support to either Clinton or Bernie Sanders in the primary, she is viewed as a progressive champion who could rally other progressives, many of whom support Sanders, to the Democratic ticket in the fall.
Warren announced that she would not run for the Democratic nomination this year, and also said that she would not commit to a 2018 Senate re-election run, further fueling vice presidential speculation.
