Elizabeth Warren calls Trump a white supremacist

Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Joint Chiefs chairman says he regrets participating in Trump photo-op | GOP senators back Joint Chiefs chairman who voiced regret over Trump photo-op | Senate panel approves 0B defense policy bill Trump on collision course with Congress over bases with Confederate names MORE (D-Mass.) told The New York Times on Wednesday that she thinks President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE is a white supremacist, becoming the latest Democratic presidential candidate to take that view publicly.

“Yes,” Warren said, asked by the paper if she thought the characterization applied to Trump.

“He has given aid and comfort to white supremacists. He’s done the wink and a nod,” she added during a campaign swing in Council Bluffs, Iowa. “He has talked about white supremacists as fine people. He’s done everything he can to stir up racial conflict and hatred in this country.”

“Donald Trump has a central message. He says to the American people, if there’s anything wrong in your life, blame them — and ‘them’ means people who aren’t the same color as you, weren’t born where you were born, don’t worship the same way you do,” she said.

The Democratic presidential field has stepped up its criticism of Trump as a white supremacist in the wake of a Saturday mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. Police believe the shooting was motivated by the suspect’s fear of a “Hispanic invasion of Texas,” as outlined in a manifesto the suspect allegedly wrote.

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), an El Paso native who has left the campaign trail to return to his hometown since the shooting, also called Trump a white supremacist on Wednesday on MSNBC and drew a direct line between his rhetoric on immigration, which has also frequently invoked an “invasion” by immigrants, and the shooting.

“He’s dehumanized or sought to dehumanize those who do not look like or pray like the majority here in this country,” O’Rourke said on MSNBC.

Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Trump finalizing executive order calling on police to use ‘force with compassion’ The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook MORE, meanwhile, said Trump has “fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation” in a speech Wednesday, while Sen. Cory BookerCory Anthony BookerRand Paul introduces bill to end no-knock warrants Black lawmakers unveil bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk MORE (D-N.J.) this week condemned Trump’s history on race in a speech at Charleston, S.C.’s Emanuel AME Church, where white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine African Americans in 2015.

Trump publicly condemned white supremacy in the wake of the El Paso shooting, but in a Wednesday night tweet accused Democrats of making accusations of racism for political gain.

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