Elizabeth Warren’s Fierce 2016 Attacks on Trump Revisited

It's hard to believe it has been nearly 10 years already since U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) first launched a vile and vicious attack against Donald J. Trump.

Warren's ugly rant has yet to cease, with Trump recently referring to the bespeckled former college professor as a "nutjob."

The 2016 Election Context

The 2016 presidential campaign was one for the ages.

While Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton won the popular vote by almost three million votes (48.2 percent to 46.1 percent), Trump took the Electoral College vote (304 to 227) and carried 30 states to Clinton's 20.

There was no shortage of venom-laced vitriol aimed at Trump by Clinton and her surrogates in the Democratic Party and the media, but few so sharp as Sen. Warren.

Warren’s Senate Chamber Criticism

A week after Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 contest, Warren delivered remarks to a near-empty Senate Chamber for the benefit of those watching on C-SPAN, calling Trump a "white supremacist" and accusing President-elect Trump of lying.

"It's barely a week, but we have already seen disgusting ideas emerge from Trump Tower," Warren scoffed in the congressional address. She accused Trump of floating a plan to "register all Muslim Americans" and a "plot to round up millions of humans and rip families apart across this nation."

Warren called it "sickening" and pledged to "fight back."

Aftermath and Apology

A week after the 2016 election, Warren accused Trump of inviting the "biggest, ugliest swamp monsters in the front door" of the White House, while "turning them loose on our government and our economy," and wanting to "cut and privatize Social Security."

Warren called Trump a "giant con," and his transition team "swamp monsters wearing clean shirts and ties" that are "bought and paid for by special interests."

Egads! All of that and Trump still hadn't even been sworn in yet.

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By the way, just two and a half years later, Warren issued an apology to the Cherokee Nation for lying about being a Native American.