Warren: Trump, Brown can't 'bully me into shutting up'

If Donald Trump and Scott Brown want Elizabeth Warren to shut up, the Massachusetts senator has news for them: It's not happening.

“You know, Donald Trump will say or do anything, and so will Scott Brown,” Warren said Tuesday on ABC’s “The View.” “Like most people, my brothers and I learned about who we are from our families, and people who have hired me for my jobs, the work I’ve done, have all said that my background didn’t have anything to do with it. In fact, they mostly didn’t know about it.”


Trump on Monday responded to Warren and Hillary Clinton’s tag-team attack on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. At a rally in Cincinnati, their first campaign stop together, the liberal firebrand countered Trump’s frequent “goofy” charge against her by suggesting that the billionaire in his “Make America Great Again” cap is the epitome of “goofy.”

Trump told NBC News’ Hallie Jackson later Monday that he hopes Warren is named Clinton’s running mate and called her “a total fraud” for allegedly making up her Native American ancestry, “which I think is racist.”

“She is one of the least productive senators in the United States Senate,” Trump said. “We call her Pocahontas for a reason.”

Brown, who was bested by Warren in the 2012 Senate race, backed Trump, telling reporters on a conference call Monday that Warren isn’t Native American. He insisted that either Harvard University release her records, she permits the release of her records or she takes a DNA test.

“What this is really about is can they bully me into shutting up?” Warren said Tuesday. “Can they just be nasty enough and ugly enough and throw enough stuff in my direction that I’ll say, ‘Oh,’ and just go back into the shadows. And the answer is: nope, not happening.”

Warren has emerged as a fierce, unrelenting Trump critic that even Clinton hailed for her proclivity to get under the real estate mogul’s skin. And she has no plans to let up.

“The way I see it is the Republicans waited way too late to go on the attack after Donald Trump, and they waited until he had basically seized the nomination and then a bunch of them are saying: ‘Oh my God, that man is not ready to be president of the United States. That man is dangerous. That man holds a bunch of views that are really horrible views,’” Warren said. “But it was too late for the Republicans.”

But it’s not too late for the Democrats, she said, and she isn’t waiting to go on the offensive.

“Now is the time to go after him. You bet,” she said.

Warren downplayed the vice president chatter, despite speculation that Monday’s event with Clinton was a veep audition for the senator.

“Yesterday was not about vice president,” she said. “Yesterday was about having a chance to get out there with the woman who is going to be the next president of the United States.”

Asked about the perception of a historic two-woman ticket, Warren maintained that she was focused on getting one woman into the White House: Clinton. But she also admitted that campaigning with the former secretary of state gave her goosebumps.

“I walked in with Secretary Clinton, and we come up and people start cheering,” Warren recalled. “And I see these little girls. I see these very, very senior women. I see people holding signs — ‘I’m with her,’ ‘Go Hillary.’ People holding signs that say ‘Girl power,’ and I stood on that stage with my arm around the woman who will be the next president of the United States, and I’ll tell you, I got goosebumps.”