This article on the Warren vs Bernie story calls Warren's credibility into question. It lists a number of lies or questionable statements she's made in the past.
The Credibility Gap ❧ Current Affairs
The Credibility Gap ❧ Current Affairs
- Saying she opposed fancy wine fundraisers even though she held them herself
- Raising money using exactly the methods she now denounces as corrupting, and falsely claiming her presidential campaign was “100% grassroots funded” when it carried over millions from a Senate campaign funded by the wealthy
- Claiming her father was a janitor when her brother insists he wasn’t
- Pretending to have been representing the interests of consumers when she was in fact working for corporations who were contesting the legal claims of retired coal miners, women sickened by faulty breast implants, rural cooperatives, and dead NASCAR drivers. (The New York Times and Washington Post both investigated her claims and documented ways in which her campaign had manipulated the truth.)
- Claiming for years on government forms that her race was “American Indian”
- When a mother accused her of having sent her children to private schools, insisting her children “went to public schools” when one of them actually did go to private school
- Claiming to support Medicare For All but then, when criticized for it, backing off it completely and promising to pass something else
- Claiming that only billionaires would pay more under her Medicare For All plan, when that wasn’t true
- Allowing Harvard Law School to claim her as its first “woman of color”
- Claiming that a DNA test supported the contention that she was an American Indian, then deleting the evidence she had done this
- Claiming to have been the first nursing mother to take the New Jersey bar, then when asked for evidence, saying that she “was making a point about the very serious challenges she faced.”
- Telling a dubious story about her grandparents having to elope because of discrimination
- Saying she was “not political” in her younger years when she was in fact a “diehard conservative” Republican
- Claiming recipes she copied word for word from the New York Times were ancient Cherokee family dishes
- Pretending that she was releasing a health-care plan that did not raise middle class taxes
- Claiming to have “created the intellectual foundation” for Occupy Wall Street
- Criticizing the revolving door between the banking sector and government despite personally putting bankers in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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