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In Iowa, Elizabeth Warren says President Trump may be headed for prison - The Boston Globe

posted onFebruary 12, 2019
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Article snippet: CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Lock him up? Elizabeth Warren hinted Sunday that Donald Trump may be behind bars by the time the 2020 election rolls around, as part of an explanation to Iowa voters of why she has largely been ignoring his Twitter taunts. “Here’s what bothers me: By the time we get to 2020, Donald Trump may not even be president,” Warren told a Cedar Rapids crowd. “In fact, he may not even be a free person.” The direct jab at the president came a day after Trump mocked Warren’s official presidential announcement in Lawrence on Saturday. Trump appeared to make a joke about the Trail of Tears — the US government’s forced and deadly relocation of thousands of Cherokee and other native tribes — while mocking Warren’s past claims of being Native American. Just a month earlier, Trump had referred to the massacre of unarmed Lakota at Wounded Knee to similarly poke fun at Warren’s candidacy. While Warren used to go toe-to-toe with Trump, calling him a “small, insecure money grubber” and a “loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud” during the 2016 election, she is now more likely not to say his name at all. Warren, like many of the other candidates in the ever-expanding field of Democrats running for the 2020 nomination, has made the calculation that insulting Trump does not translate into votes. “Every day there’s a racist tweet, a hateful tweet, something really dark and ugly,” Warren told a crowd in the basement of the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids on Sunday m... Link to the full article to read more

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