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Trump: Warren's 'psychiatrist' knows whether she thinks she can win White House in 2020

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In an exclusive interview aired during Fox News' "All-American New Year" special Monday night, President Trump suggested that only U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's "psychiatrist" knows whether she thinks she can win the White House in 2020.

Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat and progressive firebrand, announced Monday she is filing paperwork to launch an exploratory committee for president, becoming the first candidate to take the major step toward a 2020 run for the presidency.

Fox News' Pete Hegseth asked Trump whether Warren really thinks she could make him a one-term president.

"Well, that I don't know," Trump responded. "You'd have to ask her psychiatrist."

Warren, who rose to prominence during the 2008 financial crisis, angered many top Democrats and Native American groups in October by releasing inconclusive DNA test results in response to Trump's claims that she repeatedly lied about her heritage to obtain affirmative-action benefits in the course of her academic career.

The Cherokee Nation responded to the results at the time by asserting that "a DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship." And Kim TallBear, an associate professor at the University of Alberta in Canada, remarked that Warren's "very desire to locate a claim to Native American identity in a DNA marker inherited from a long-ago ancestor is a settler-colonial racial understanding of what it is to be Native American."

"Elizabeth Warren will be the first," Trump told Hegseth in the phone interview. "She did very badly in proving that she was of Indian heritage. That didn't work out too well."

According to Warren's DNA analysis, "the vast majority" of Warren's family tree is European and there is "strong evidence" she has Native-American ancestry "in the range of 6-10 generations ago." As reported by the Boston Globe, this means she could be between 1/64 and 1/1,024 Native American.

"I think you have more than she does, and maybe I do too, and I have nothing," Trump said, referring to tribal heritage. "So, we'll see how she does. I wish her well, I hope she does well, I'd love to run against her."

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