There she goes again
Warren lies with Trump ‘free person’ suggestion: RNC flack
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s “extreme” campaign trail suggestion that President Trump may not be a free man in 2020 “has no bearing in truth,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said Monday.
“To say that he may not be a free person is just a really radical, extreme statement and another falsehood from Elizabeth Warren,” McEnany told Herald Radio Monday, referring to Warren’s exag- gerated claim of Native American ancestry first reported in the Herald.
Warren made the explosive comments Sunday during a newly announced presidential bid at a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Warren joined a rapidly growing field of Democratic presidential candidates this weekend as Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) also officially jumped in the race. Democratic Senators Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris already announced their candidacy.
“By the time we get to 2020, Donald Trump may not even be president. In fact, he may not even be a free person,” the Cambridge Democrat said.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to get him elected, while federal prosecutors in New York are looking into some of the president’s business dealings.
“I think that’s an extreme statement that has no bearing in truth. The president’s done nothing wrong,” McEnany said. “The Mueller investigation is about to wrap up if you believe the reporting that’s out there and the president will walk away from that.”
McEnany also dismissed any suggestion of Trump’s impeachment, saying Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is unlikely to slate a Senate trial for Trump even if the House does vote to impeach.
Although Democrats have long chastised Trump about lying, Warren fudged the facts about her own heritage, including on a Texas bar registration card where she identified herself as “American Indian,” McEnany noted.
“For a long time she’s been misrepresenting herself, lying to the American people, and I do think she’ll pay a price for that in the Democratic primary,” said McEnany.