Elizabeth Warren says by 2020, Trump 'may not even be a free person'


Speaking to voters Sunday in Iowa, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said by 2020, President Trump might not be on the ballot — because he'll be behind bars.
Warren is one of several Democrats running for president, and during an event at the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids, she said next year, "Donald Trump may not even be president. In fact, he may not even be a free person." Speaking to reporters later, Warren asked, "How many investigations are there now? It's no longer just the [Special Counsel Robert] Mueller investigation. They're everywhere and these are serious investigations, so we'll see what happens."
She also said Trump is "not the only problem we've got. Donald Trump is the symptom of a badly broken system. So, our job as we start rolling into the next election is not just to respond on a daily basis. It's to talk about what we understand is broken in this country, talk abut what needs to be done to change it, and talk about how we're going to do that, because that is not only how we win, it's how we make the change we need to make."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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