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Thursday, February 27, 2020

Fact Check: Elizabeth Warren Falsely Claims She Was Fired from Her First Teaching Job for Being Pregnant

CLAIM: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claimed at the Democrat debate in Charleston, South Carolina, broadcast on CBS Tuesday night that she was fired from her first teaching job for being pregnant. Specifically, Warren said that after she was visibly pregnant, her principal “wished me luck and gave my job to someone else. Pregnancy discrimination? You bet.”

VERDICT: False. Warren has been making this claim on the campaign trail since June 2019, but all the documentary evidence surrounding her departure from her first job as a public school teacher in New Jersey during the 1970-1971 academic year indicates it was voluntary. In a 2007 interview, she also described her departure from that job as voluntary.

CBS reported on the story back in October:
Fresh out of the University of Houston, Warren was hired by the Riverdale Board of Education in New Jersey as a speech pathologist for the 1970-1971 school year. Since she began her campaign for the presidency, she has repeatedly said that she was “shown the door” after just a year as a result of her pregnancy.

“By the end of the first year I was visibly pregnant, and the principal did what principals did in those days: wished me luck, showed me the door, and hired someone else for the job,” she said at a town hall in Oakland in June.
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

She also claimed to be an Indian !!!! LIE LIE LIE

Anonymous said...

Doubling down on her lies.

Anonymous said...

This claim by Warren was debunked months ago, I guess the stupid Indian didn't get the message that she's been outed.

Anonymous said...

Was it from a Student ?? Hint Hint

Anonymous said...


Even Snopes doesn't believe this flat out lie. As noted, previously debunked and conclusively refuted by her former employer school district.

She's called Liawatha for very good reasons (plural)!

Anonymous said...

Who would breed that wench?

Anonymous said...

Well, she is an established liar and embellisher. What more is there to know about her?