Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump says Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has had “a big, failed record as a senator” and that he hasn’t heard from her on social media since he decided to respond to recent attacks.
“Well, she’s a senator that has done nothing. She just talks,” Mr. Trump said of Ms. Warren. “She was not highly respected.”
“Frankly, as you know, the previous senator who is a big supporter of mine, Scott Brown, is somebody that gave me a lot of information about her,” he said on Tuesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News.
“She has had a big, failed record as a senator, and all of a sudden about a week ago she started tweeting violently about me,” he said. “Just every tweet was … about Trump, Trump, Trump.”
“And I finally hit her back, and I think I hit her back very hard, and I had no choice but to do that,” Mr. Trump said.
“She sees polls that I’m going to beat Hillary, and she’d like to make sure the Democrats win, but she sees polls that I’m going to beat Hillary,” he said.
“She went on a Twitter rant that was sort of amazing, so I tweeted a few things and that was the end of that, and I haven’t heard from her since,” Mr. Trump said.
Among other things, Ms. Warren has said on Twitter recently that Mr. Trump “lied his way through the primaries” and that she plans to fight her “heart out” to make sure Mr. Trump’s “toxic stew of hatred & insecurity never reaches the White House.”
Mr. Trump, meanwhile, tweeted last week: “Goofy Elizabeth Warren and her phony Native American heritage are on a Twitter rant. She is too easy! I’m driving her nuts.”
Ms. Warren then tweeted: “No, @realDonaldTrump — your racism, sexism & xenophobia doesn’t drive me nuts. It makes me sick. And I’m not alone.”
Mr. Trump was referring to Ms. Warren’s claims of American Indian heritage, which have been called into question.
Asked earlier this year about Ms. Warren’s attacks on him, Mr. Trump said: “Who’s that, the Indian? You mean the Indian?”
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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