Elizbaeth Warren slams Trump after ‘woman card’ comment

[TomCADem]

Source: The Boston Globe

Senator Elizabeth Warren says Donald Trump’s latest critique of Hillary Clinton shows his weakness — not to mention his sexism.

“Donald Trump clearly feels threatened by Secretary Clinton’s qualifications to be president so he’s attacking Hillary Clinton for being a woman,” Warren said in a telephone interview with the Globe. “That’s what weak men do. It is an old story, and I don’t think the American voters will fall for it.”

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Warren also posed a question of her own: “I hoped you were going to ask me if I thought he was a sexist,” Warren said.

“That’s like asking if he has bad hair,” she said. “He wears the sexism out front for everyone to see.”



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[JoFerret]

32. The Racist Roots of Bernie's Sexist Tree

TWO women on a ticket!!! Gosh!.

https://goddesskerrilyn.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/the-racist-roots-of-bernies-sexist-tree/

Well - there is some precedent for a single gender ticket I suppose.

[sheshe2]

2. My Senator!

Brilliant take down.

Warren also posed a question of her own: “I hoped you were going to ask me if I thought he was a sexist,” Warren said.

“That’s like asking if he has bad hair,” she said. “He wears the sexism out front for everyone to see.”

BOOM!

[Phentex]

12. Great lines!

[LenaBaby61]

3. Elizabeth Warren ....

Will hopefully be one of Hillary Clinton's surrogates should things continue on the path it appears to be heading, and that's with Hillary Clinton securing the Dem nominee for President.

That would be fabulous, because she'd be one hell of a surrogate for Hillary Clinton--she's already one of the best/brightest surrogates for the Democratic Party around. I really admire Elizabeth Warren, and she's not afraid to "give it right back" to the GOP. Love that about her. She doesn't back down from from a bully or from a very weak man like Donald Trump, and Elizabeth Warren is 100% correct, Trump is a very weak coward and bully of a "man," and I use the term man extremely loosely.

[olddad56]

4. Hilary's surrogate... that is insulting to Elizabeth Warren.

[silvershadow]

6. +1

[LenaBaby61]

7. No, Donald Trump ...

Was insulting towards Hillary Clinton and towards women in general again. Mocking Hillary Clinton's accomplishments and qualifications to be president, and I've always found Elizabeth Warren to be the kind of person to say what she means and means what she says and she meant to tell Trump what she thought of him for dissing Hillary Clinton's accomplishments and for dissing women in general.

“Donald Trump clearly feels threatened by Secretary Clinton’s qualifications to be president so he’s attacking Hillary Clinton for being a woman,” Warren said in a telephone interview with the Globe. “That’s what weak men do. It is an old story, and I don’t think the American voters will fall for it.”

And to boot, Elizabeth Warren said Trump was weak and feeling very THREATENED because of Hillary Clinton's qualifications to be president. Elizabeth Warren came to Hillary Clinton's defense, so she clearly feels comfortable in doing so. I say again, that would love for Elizabeth Warren to be a surrogate for Hillary Clinton if possible.

[Pastiche423]

8. Yes

Calling Elizabeth a surrogate for Hillary is insulting not only to Elizabeth Warren but to all liberal women.

[Chico Man]

31. Here is someone

Who claims to speak for "all liberal women" (except those that support Hillary, of course).

[Javaman]

9. +1 nt

[hack89]

10. You know she will actively support and fight for Hillary

she's a good Dem that wants to see a Dem in the White House.

[LenaBaby61]

14. Who knows any better what's at stake with the Supreme Court than ...

Elizabeth Warren, especially if someone as horrible as Donald Trump is who can name the Scalia-type justices to the high court he said he'd love to appoint. A court stacked that far to the right will produce disastrous rulings for the next 25-30 years or even more. Elizabeth Warren KNOWS this, and hopefully will continue being a surrogate for Hillary Clinton, Dems etc. She obviously doesn't have a problem doing it, or she wouldn't be doing it.

Trump isn't just insulting Hillary Clinton, but people's daughters, sisters, Aunts, so's etc.

[JoFerret]

30. Without a doubt. She's a Democrat who

understands just what is at stake in this election.

[pnwmom]

15. Why would it be insulting to Elizabeth Warren if she chose to act on behalf of Hillary Clinton?

That's what a political surrogate does.

http://www.wisegeek.com/in-politics-what-is-a-campaign-surrogate.htm#didyouknowout

A campaign surrogate is a term used to describe a person who acts on the behalf of a candidate running for some sort of political office. The campaign surrogate often appears at public events that the candidate cannot make it to, or may simply appear to bolster the image of the candidate in a certain demographic.

[maddiemom]

33. Agree!

No insult to Warren at this point in the process. Just more Hillary bashing here for a really nit-picking reason. BTW, I voted for Bernie in our PA primary, but it looks like Hillary will be the nominee. I don't see how some of the trashing she's been getting on D.U. is of any benefit in stopping Trump ( I can't even think of Cruz). Vote Green if you don't like Hillary. I've voted my idealism for president several times in the past (but not for Nader). The older I get, the more I resent the "lesser of evils" thing, but the more I realize I don't want to throw my vote away. There are far worse choices than Hillary. Saying there was no real difference between Bush and Gore in 2000 got us eight disastrous years of Dubya and Cheney. Iraq alone disproved that argument. I have always thought that we need to do away with the electoral college, for a start.

[JoFerret]

24. Nah! Get over it N/T

[Blue_Adept]

11. That's my senator!

May she be the senior senator from MA for some time to come.

[greymouse]

13. And yet there's this

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/contribute/donate/om-official-woman-card/

Okay for Hillary to play it, but not okay for someone to call her on it.

[LenaBaby61]

16. But ...

It's Donald Trump who continues to insult and marginalize women and whose attempting to control a woman's reproductive rights IE: Recently saying, as I'm sure you know, that women should go to jail if they sought an abortion if abortion was overturned. Then when he was heavily criticized for saying that, he then said it should be doctors who should go to jail if they performed abortions.

Any way you look at it, Donald Trump is the one playing the woman card, and trying to use it against Hillary Clinton and other women in a negative way, and I'm happy that Elizabeth Warren called him on it.

[houston16revival]

18. Are you here to undermine everything Democratic?

[greymouse]

19. No, I've been voting Democratic for sixty years.

That's why I support Bernie, and not a Goldwater Girl who loves war and Wall Street money and supports trashing the environment with fracking.

[houston16revival]

20. I support Bernie, but he's a loser

he has no party to control at this point, no leverage, no touchstone with Congress

That's why he's a movement progressive

It will look a lot different in 4 years

I'm a Democrat, though, I support my party

Sometimes with, sometimes without, enthusiasm

That's because we're powerless if Trump gets in office

20% of a whole loaf is better than no loaf

To me anyway

[greymouse]

21. if we keep settling for 20% of the loaf

we'll be getting less and less of the loaf as the party moves further to the right.

I thought Nader was a disaster, not fit to be President and not enough support to win. But Bernie is different. Qualified and with massive support, which only grows as more people get to know him.

I support Democratic principles. The Democratic party has just about abandoned those principles and is pretty much totally corrupt at the national level. So I vote on the basis of candidates, not labels. That's why I'm #BernieorBust

By the way, if Bernie is a loser, what do you call a woman who ruined the lives of millions of civilians in Libya and Iraq.

[houston16revival]

22. I Hope

to call her President-elect

because the alternative will destroy our environment, national parks, world reputation, jobs, Social Security, Health care

and I know with Mrs. Clinton we'll be able to save some if not most of that in at least skeletal form, maybe more with a
Democratic Congress.

[JoFerret]

28. Demagoguery

Demagoguery is an unattractive trait.

And you are old enough to be wiser than that.

Losing is hard - ask Hillary on that one.

But the true measure of a person and a campaign is how they pick themselves up.

There's work to be done if we want victory in November.

[JoFerret]

27. It's all over

...bar the death throes

[maddiemom]

34. More and more I'm convinced that, if by some miracle Bernie were the nominee AND were elected---

he'd face as much obstructionism as President Obama. It goes without saying that the Repugs will fight to the death to thwart any Democrat OR woman president, and they despise the Clintons. Another four to eight years of continuing obstruction, however, ( and with the electorate growing younger), should pretty well finish off the GOP.

[JoFerret]

25. Time to stop with the GOP talking points already

Look - Losing a hard-fought political campaign is hard. Ask Hillary on that one.

But the real measure is how you pick yourself up and what you do next.

If you've been voting for sixty years as you claim you are in your 80's. You've seen a lot of elections. This may be the most critical of all of them.

Time to stop tearing Hillary down. She is the only qualified adult in the race.

Then - on to VICTORY in November.

It's gonna be a wild ride and the Democrats will need all the help they can get against a desperate and relentless and super-funded #GOP.

[Tanuki]

23. You have it backwards. The "official woman card" was the tongue-in-cheek response to

Trump's dismissive and demeaning sexism, not the cause of it. Thanks, though, for reminding me to order one of those cards so the probable Democratic nominee can "deal me in" for the rest of the campaign from now through the November election.

[houston16revival]

17. Taking on Trump

might be right in a Clinton-Warren ticket's wheelhouse

Double the pleasure, double the fun

[JoFerret]

26. There is some precedent

for a single gender ticket.

But she maybe more useful in the Senate. So let's get cracking on winning all the down-ticket races.

We need a filibuster-proof Congress.

[Thinkingabout]

29. Thank you Sen Warren, Trump is running the train off the tracks.