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Trump takes a shot at Elizabeth Warren

Donald Trump on Monday took a shot at Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, sarcastically calling her “the Indian,” as he also called for unity in American politics.

“The problem with the country right now [is] it’s so divided, and people like Elizabeth Warren really have to get their act together because it’s going to stay divided,” he told reporters during a news conference Monday.

Trump also referred to Warren as “the Indian” — a swipe at the controversy that touched her Senate campaign after it was revealed that she had in the past claimed minority status, citing Native American ancestry.

In a series of tweets and a Facebook post earlier Monday, Warren branded Trump a “loser” but warned that he could win the general election if voters don’t wake up and oppose him. "His embarrassing insecurities are on parade: petty bullying, attacks on women, cheap racism, and flagrant narcissism," she wrote. "But just because Trump is a loser everywhere else doesn’t mean he’ll lose this election. People have been underestimating his campaign for nearly a year – and it’s time to wake up."

Warren later followed up with fresh attacks, questioning via Twitter how Trump could be a unifier “while basing his campaign on racism, sexism, xenophobia and hatred.” She added that the Republican front-runner is “WRONG” if he thinks Americans won’t fight back and maintained that voters can’t “elect wannabe tyrants to the White House. Not now, not ever.”

Trump also went after Warren in a New York Times interview published on Saturday, in which he bitingly said: "She’s got about as much Indian blood as I have. Her whole life was based on a fraud. She got into Harvard and all that because she said she was a minority.”

In his remarks on Monday, Trump also accepted blame for some of the divisive politics. “That includes Hillary and probably includes me. It includes everybody,” Trump said. “This country has to get together because we’re in serious trouble.”

The real estate mogul rejected the notion that he would appoint liberal judges to the Supreme Court and said he was working with The Heritage Foundation and others on a list of potential justices.

“Probably between seven and 10 judges that I think will meet the highest standards — the highest standards — and from that list, we’ll pick Supreme Court judges,” he said. “And I’d make that pledge because I want people to understand that is the single biggest problem. It would be terrible losing the election because the country’s going in the wrong direction. But if the new president is a Democrat and picks very liberal people, this country is in big, big trouble.”

Trump’s news conference followed meetings with The Washington Post’s editorial board, in which he named some of his foreign policy advisers, and later with roughly two-dozen current and former congressional Republicans and lobbyists.

The New York billionaire was scheduled to deliver a foreign policy speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington later Monday.

