Sen. Elizabeth Warren acknowledged that the Democratic Party apparatus “shouldn’t play favorites.” | John Shinkle/POLITICO Warren to Trump: 'I understand your desperation to change the subject'

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren fired back at Donald Trump on Friday, insisting the president called her “Pocahontas” in a desperate attempt to change the subject.

The president seized on Warren’s Thursday comment to CNN that “yes,” she agrees the 2016 Democratic primary was “rigged,” as former interim Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile suggested in a published excerpt of her upcoming book.


“Pocahontas just stated that the Democrats, lead [sic] by the legendary Crooked Hillary Clinton, rigged the Primaries!” Trump tweeted Friday morning. “Lets go FBI & Justice Dept.”

The tweet was among a series of posts nudging the Justice Department to probe Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. “People are angry,” he said in one post, adding that DOJ and the FBI must eventually “do what is right and proper.”

“The American public deserves it!” he exclaimed.

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“I understand your desperation to change the subject, @realDonaldTrump. Your campaign mgr was just indicted for conspiracy against the US,” Warren said, referring to special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates.

“You might think your tweets are cute, @realDonaldTrump, but they won’t stop Mueller's investigation or keep your people out of jail,” she continued.

Warren acknowledged that the Democratic Party apparatus “shouldn’t play favorites.”

“But that’s a whole lot different from illegally conspiring with Russia,” she contended. “The FBI knows the difference. Slurs, lies & trash talk won’t stop the FBI from doing its job. This isn't a dictatorship. It's our democracy. And it's stronger than you.”