President Donald Trump reacted to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s genealogy test results during his Montana rally Thursday. “The one good thing about her test is there was so little -- she had less than the average American. I used to say, 'I have more Indian blood in me than she does and I have none,' and I was right,” he said. He said that Warren is “probably disqualified” from running for President in 2020 and that she “made a fool of herself.” Now, Trump surmised, “I can’t call her Pocahontas anymore.” He continued: “She has so little Indian blood she has none that I cannot call her Pocahontas anymore. But if you don’t mind I will continue.” “It’ll show everybody what a phony she is,” he added. Some background: The Massachusetts senator released a DNA test showing she has distant Native American ancestry, in an apparent attempt to pre-empt further questions and attacks should she run for president in 2020. Warren first faced scrutiny for her purported Native American heritage during her 2012 Senate race. But Trump has revived and amplified the controversy as he eyes Warren as a possible rival, frequently mocking her with the nickname "Pocahontas." Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. released a statement Monday saying using a DNA test to claim a connection to any tribal nation is "inappropriate and wrong." "It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven," he said. "Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."<doc-sep>President Donald Trump will continue his series of rallies for Republican candidates Thursday night in Missoula, Montana. The rally is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. MDT at the Minuteman Aviation hangar. It is Trump's first stop in a three-day tour of the West ahead of the November 6 midterm elections in which Democrats will seek to retake one or both houses of Congress. In Missoula, Trump will be calling on his supporters to vote for state Auditor Matt Rosendale, who is running against incumbent Democratic Senator Jon Tester, as well as Representative Greg Gianforte, who is being challenged by Democratic candidate Kathleen Williams. The rally will be streamed live on YouTube by CBS News: Tickets to the rally, up to two per reservation, are available at Trump's campaign website up until the event kickoff. The crowd size is estimated to range from 6,000 to 8,000 people, according to the Missoulian. Trump is only the fourth president to visit Missoula while serving and the first to do so in 64 years, by the newspaper's account. In 1909, President William Taft's train stopped late at night at the Northern Pacific station. In 1950, President Harry Truman spent a few hours one morning at a rail stop, while four years later President Dwight Eisenhower dedicated a new smokejumper base at the airport. While running for the White House in 2008, Trump's defeated 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton held a rally in Missoula's Neptune Aviation hangar with about 2,000 people inside and outside the venue. Controversy erupted ahead of the rally when former Montana Republican Party chairman Will Deschamps Sr. wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday that some GOP members at the Missoula event will have guns and "know how to use" the firearms. "For all the prospective attendees to the Trump event. Come early. Also all you protesters, show up as well. This is a concealed and open carry state and we know how to use em," Deschamps wrote. Deschamps told the Missoulian that he was worried about protesters from the far-left "antifa" group. "My concern is with antifa," Deschamps said. "Someone is going to get hurt at those protests." In another Facebook post on Wednesday, Deschamps said that protesters "have become more and more brutal." "They are in fact, now carrying fire arms, hardened gloves and other violent articles with them that can kill, or harm those they disagree with," he wrote. "Apparently, those of us that want peacful [sic] marches, are not allowed to suggest we defend ourselves." Trump's schedule will continue at pace ahead of the midterms. On Monday, he will hold a rally in Houston, Texas, for Senator Ted Cruz, who faces a rough race against Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke.<doc-sep>Dana Bash: This is so telling about where the Republican party is NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 24: Trump Tower stands on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on August 24, 2018 in New York City. Following new allegations over hush money that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen paid to an adult-film actress, the Manhattan district attorneyÕs office in New York City may seek criminal charges against the Trump Organization in the coming days. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Why GOP is standing in the way of Capitol riot investigation WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 08: US Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner (R-VA) remarks on the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the US Capitol November 8, 2006 in Washington, DC. Warner said he supports President George W. Bush's nomination of former CIA Director Robert Gates for Secretary of Defense. Warner said he anticipates Gates' confirmation before the end of the year. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), joined by Senate Assistant Minority Leader John Thune (R-SD) (L) and Senate Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO), speaks following a Senate Republican Policy luncheon at the Russell Senate Office Building on May 18, 2021 in Washington, DC. (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s sprint to the midterm elections continued Thursday night in Montana, where he appeared at a campaign rally to boost Republican Matt Rosendale’s challenge against Democratic Sen. Jon Tester. Trump, as he often is when in front of crowds who rabidly support him, was in full voice – savaging Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and praising a Montana congressman who pleaded guilty to assaulting a political reporter. (Yes, you read that right.) Below, the lines worth taking note of from Trump’s speech – in the order he said them. 1. “I love these hangars. I love a hangar. There’s nothing like a hangar. You get out of the plane, you walk over, and we have massive crowds.” I admit that I would probably buy a T-shirt with the phrase “I love a hangar” on it. Also, away we go! 2. “I wouldn’t want to be the one that walks into your house and says, ‘Give me that gun.’ Right? Nobody has the courage to do that. But Matt is going to protect your Second Amendment.” Here Trump is relying on one of his oft-repeated falsehoods about those who support gun control measures: That their ultimate goal is confiscation of all guns, including from law-abiding citizens. While there is the occasional radical voice within the gun control movement who suggests something like this, no mainstream Democratic politician has come close to saying it. In fact. both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton expressly rejected the idea that they had any interest in any sort of gun collection program. Trump knows that. He just doesn’t care. Because the prospect of a politician coming to your house and taking your gun is something that works for him politically. 3. “The unemployment rate just fell to the lowest level in over 50 years.” TRUE! 4. “More Americans are now working than ever before.” This is also true but with an asterisk. And the asterisk is that there are just more Americans today than there were 50 years ago. So, yes, more are working. Because there are more of them. 5. “That was one of those quickies. I love those states. You know, the polls close. Polls have just closed in the state of Montana. Trump has won Montana.” The 2016 election ended 710 days ago. 6. “We like the – we like the – it’s just a flowing. They do comma. They don’t do – they do a comma.” I genuinely have no idea what the hell he is talking about here. But it is flowing. With the comma. You always do the comma. 7. “In a beautiful ceremony at the White House, we proudly swore in the newest member of the United States Supreme Court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh.” Technically, Kavanuagh was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice days earlier by Chief Justice John Roberts and retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. The ceremony Trump is referencing here was purely for show. 8. “And come Election Day, Americans will remember Kavanaugh and they will remember all sorts of other things, because that was a shameful act.” There’s no question that the Republican base was fired up in the wake of Brett Kavanuagh’s confirmation fight. Trump – and Republicans – are hoping this passion keeps burning for the next 18 days. 9. “This will be an election of Kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order, and common sense.” Ads – and polling – suggest this is going to be an election about health care. 10. “But a lot of money has been passing to people to come up and try and get to the border by Election Day, because they think that’s a negative for us. Number one, they’re being stopped. And number two, regardless, that’s our issue.” OK. So the President of the United States is suggesting money is being paid to people traveling in a caravan headed to try to gain entry into the United States for baldly political reasons – which, I think, he is suggesting are that it will make immigration an issue in the election and that Democrats think they win on that issue. I mean, I think? There’s a whole lot of logic jumps happening here. 11. “The one thing, they stick together, but they wanted that caravan and there are those that say that caravan didn’t just happen. It didn’t just happen. A lot of reasons that caravan, 4,000 people.” Again, Trump signaling – with zero proof – that Democrats are somehow behind the caravan of immigrants moving toward the US. 12. “You have some hardened, bad people coming in.” “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” – Donald Trump, June 2015 13. “Because I have created such an incredible economy, I have created so many jobs. I have made this country with you so great that everybody wants to come in.” “I.” “I.” “I.” 14. “Do you ever see when the fake news interviews them? And then they try and cut it, but they – they’ll go to a person holding a sign who gets paid by Soros or somebody, right? That’s what happens.” Another common Trump conspiracy theory: The news seeks out protesters – and these protesters are paid for by George Soros, the liberal billionaire. This is, um, not true. 15. “But did you see the signs? They’re brand-new. They’re beautiful, the black-and-white signs. Everybody has the same size, right from the finest printer in Washington. Do you think the people – those are not signs made in the basement. They were all identical.” Trump can keep saying that the protests against Kavanuagh were not organic. But that doesn’t make it true. 16. “It’s a whole – hey, look, there’s a lot of rigged things going on in this country, you know about that. There are a lot of rigged things going on.” These lines are at the heart of Trump’s appeal. The system is rigged against you, normal person, and only Trump will tell you the truth about it. And only Donald Trump will fight for you, the little guy, against these elites who think they are smarter and better than you. 17. “Obstruction. You know, I just walked in, and a big, strong guy grabbed me. And he was almost crying. It happens every time. And many times. And he said, sir, ‘Mr. President, thank you so much for saving our country.’” Two thoughts here: a) How did Trump go from attacking the Mueller probe for looking into whether he obstructed the investigation to a big guy hugging him? b) Trump says that big, strong guys hug him and thank him for saving America outside every rally. Does this actually happen? 18. “He’s – he runs eight times. ‘Sir, I won five elections.’ I said, well, you got me there. I ran once, and I won one election, but it’s the presidency, right? That’s right.” Always, always, always the obsessions with how he is better and special. 19.<doc-sep>
Before President Donald Trump stepped foot onto a hangar in Missoula, Montana, to rally for GOP candidates in the midterm elections on Thursday evening, he was greeted by two large, capitalized words lettered on the mountains that could likely be read from aboard Air Force One: "IMPEACH" and "LIAR." The white M on Mount Sentinel was accompanied by six other letters to spell impeach. The white L on Mount Jumbo had three letters added to spell liar. Another one here in Missoula. Reads "IMPEACH"... pic.twitter.com/IKYCpYUzr6 — JimInMissoula (@JimAtSunburst) October 19, 2018 It is unclear whether Trump saw the lettering. They were the actions of people who were not thrilled about the president coming to town to campaign for two Republicans in one of the six counties in Montana that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Missoula is a blue island in the red state, which Trump won by 20 points that year. Trump is stumping for Republican Senate candidate and state auditor Matt Rosendale, who seeks to unseat two-term incumbent Democratic Senator Jon Tester, as well as Republican Representative Greg Gianforte, whose challenger is Democratic candidate Kathleen Williams. The president said he has "a lot of respect for" Rosendale and bashed Tester for lodging allegations that Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, whom Trump nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, was improperly prescribing medication and drinking while at work. It led to Jackson withdrawing his nomination. "What [Tester] did was unfair, what he did was vicious, what he did was…almost, almost, if this is believable, worse" than Democrats did to try to stop Brett Kavanaugh from sitting on the Supreme Court, Trump said. Trump applauded Gianforte for assaulting Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs while the candidate campaigned last May. "Never wrestle him, you understand that?" Trump said of Gianforte. "Any guy who can do a body slam is my kind of guy." Trump's actions and sometimes untruthful words have prompted Democrats and others to call for his impeachment. Two forced votes in the House to begin impeachment proceedings on Trump have failed by large margins. Democratic leaders saying they are awaiting the results of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians in the 2016 election. Impeachment efforts could receive a boost if Democrats win one or both houses of Congress come the midterms in November. The "LIAR" letters were organized by Maggie Williams and Betty Tschudi, and about 50 volunteers sat and guarded them on Thursday. "We chose 'liar' because it felt like the strongest word," Tschudi told the Missoulian. "It's unbelievable how many times he lied and says things about people that aren't true. And we needed something that started with a 'L.'"