Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, and three times is a trend. That means there is now a trend of Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts misrepresenting details of her personal background.

The 2020 Democratic candidate last week appeared to deny that she sent either of her two children to a private school. The problem is that Warren did indeed send her son, Alex, to a private school in Texas starting at about 5th grade, according to a yearbook uncovered first by the Cato Institute’s Corey DeAngelis and confirmed later by the Washington Free Beacon.

In Atlanta last week, the Massachusetts senator was confronted by pro-school choice demonstrators who oppose her anti-charter and anti-voucher platform. Warren met later with one of the demonstrators, a black activist named Sarah Carpenter, who said that she and the other school choice supporters want only to enjoy the same educational benefits that Warren’s family has enjoyed.

"We are going to have the same choice that you had for your kids, because I read that your children went to private schools," Carpenter said to the senator.

Warren responded flatly, “My children went to public schools."

Though it may be true the senator’s children went to public schools, her son also attended a private school in the 1980s, when Warren was a professor at the University of Texas in Austin. The 2020 candidate's communications director, Kristen Orthman, confirmed separately to the Washington Free Beacon that Alex Warren “went to public school until 5th grade.”

At the very least, then, this is a lie of omission by Warren. Her statement that her children went to public schools was intended to mislead, as it leaves out the relevant fact that, yes, her son attended a private school as well. From my reading of the exchange in Atlanta, the entire point of Warren mentioning that her children went to public school was not to add context to the conversation but to dispute Carpenter's true statement, “Your children went to private schools.”

Over and again, Warren presents dubious versions of her personal story, and up to now the press has run interference for her. For example, there was that questionable anecdote about how she was fired in from her job in 1971 at an elementary school after only one year because she was "visibly pregnant." That story is contradicted by contemporaneous school documents and news reporting, and by Warren herself when she explained the incident previously.

There is also obviously the debacle involving Warren claiming minority status as a Native American, including on official employment-related documents, despite that there is nothing to show that she is anywhere close to being of Cherokee Indian descent. She had long claimed never to have used her supposed American Indian heritage to advance professionally, but it turned out she had.

If it were just one example of Warren fudging the details of her personal story, I would be tempted to chalk it up to a memory lapse or a "misspeak." But three is a trend.