Sen. Elizabeth Warren took an unusual approach to prepping for the Democratic debate with a Monday stop in Ohio, where she fielded a hard hitting interview with Jaden Jefferson, an 11-year-old “freelance reporter” from Toledo.
“As an outspoken critic of the president, what do you think is the worst policy he initiated?” the youngster questioned in a video posted to his Twitter page, Jaden Reports.
“Oh, man. That’s hard. I mean, he’s done some really bad stuff every day,” Warren said in a somber and dramatic tone, “but when you think about the policy, I think it’s probably taking children away from their families down at the border, and doing it not to make our country safer, but really doing it to try to hurt human beings because if he can make them hurt a lot then maybe when they’re scared for their lives they won’t come here.
“And that just seems horrible to me,” she said.
The next softball: “What are you doing for equal opportunities for people of color?”
Warren delved into a long-winded response about housing discrimination, alleging the government subsidized homes for while folks but used “redlining and discriminated against” minorities with housing.
Warren told Jaden home ownership improved for blacks after the civil rights movement, but “around 2000 a lot of big banks … came in and targeted communities of color with the worst of the worst mortgages to strip value out of those communities and our federal government covered its ears, covered its eyes, and pretended nothing happened.”
The solution, Warren argued, is to create more government to fix all of the problems created by government.
“I have a housing policy, that’s a good thing. Build 3.2 million new housing units across America, that’s a good thing. There will be housing for middle class families and working families,” she said. “But it also says we have got to stop and recognize the role the federal government played in discrimination, decade after decade after decade, and so in my housing plan there is also a part for people who have lived in formally redlined neighborhoods, or people who got hit hard by the housing crash and haven’t been able to get back into a home and give them some assistance so they can buy a home.”
Bottom line: Warren’s government plan is the best, and it will fix the problems from “decade after decade after decade” of government interference in the market.
“We actually have to face up to what the government did wrong on behalf of all of America, and say we’re at least going to take steps to make it right,” Warren said.
Jefferson thanked Warren for the talk, the first stop to Toledo by any of the Democrat presidential candidates.
Of course, the mainstream media loved the four-minute fluff piece, which earned the praise of “journalists” like MSNBC’s Joy Reid, CNN New York bureau producer Sarah Jorgensen, Huffington Post editor Erin Evans, and others who create similar content.
Star of Elizabeth Warren reporter gaggle in Toledo is 11-year-old Jaden. He says he is a “freelance reporter.” He’s prepared with a list of questions — please give him a follow! @jaden_reports pic.twitter.com/thGKAwQmc1
— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) July 29, 2019
Great work, Jaden!!
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 30, 2019
“Great work, Jaden!!” Reid tweeted.
Great job Jaden!!!! Really smart questions!
— Sarah Jorgensen (@SarahLJorgensen) July 30, 2019
“Great job Jaden!!!!” Jorgensen posted. “Really smart questions!”
Scott Sands, a radio host, said on Twitter that Jaden’s follower count more than doubled after his interview with Warren, KHQ reports.
Way to go @jaden_reports!!! Love the shout out too! @cnn pic.twitter.com/IRFypRhDmc
— Chris Mercadante (@Mercbg2k) July 30, 2019
Jefferson is now at the Democratic primary debates in Detroit, where he’s working with CNN to cover the event.
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