Warren proves a real challenge for Trump
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee has found someone who can go toe to toe with him on Twitter and crush him. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), is smart, funny, passionate and a true wordsmith when it comes to doing battle with Trump.
Just before heading over to the NBC News complex to endorse Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, she had some work to do. Warren spoke to the American Constitution Society and attacked Trump as a “loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud.”
Trump “has never risked anything for anyone and serves nobody but himself. And that is just one of the many reasons why he will never be president,” Warren said in the scathing broadside also aimed at the top two Republicans in Congress.
The liberal lawmaker increasingly has tangled with Trump, taking on an attack-dog role that she seems able to execute more effectively than other Democrats, including Clinton herself. Trump has lashed back, labeling her “Goofy Elizabeth Warren” and ridiculing her claims to Native American heritage.
Warren took aim at Trump’s contention that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel can’t preside fairly over a case involving Trump University because the U.S.-born Curiel is of Mexican descent and Trump wants to build a wall along the border with Mexico.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., both have strongly condemned those comments, but Warren, D-Mass., argued that McConnell and Ryan are really no better than Trump on the issue of judges. She cited what she contends is McConnell’s blockade of Obama’s judicial nominees and Ryan’s acquiescence in the strategy.
“Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell want Donald Trump to appoint the next generation of judges. They want those judges to tilt the law to favor big business and billionaires like Trump. They just want Donald to quit being so vulgar and obvious about it,” Warren said.
“Donald Trump chose racism as his weapon, but his aim is exactly the same as the rest of the Republicans. Pound the courts into submission to the rich and powerful.”
Warren threw her support behind Democrat Hillary Clinton for president Thursday, following President Barack Obama in sending a signal to progressive voters now backing Bernie Sanders that it’s time to unite around the presumptive Democratic nominee.
“I am ready to get in this fight and work my heart out for Hillary Clinton to become the next president of the United States and to make sure that Donald Trump never gets anyplace close to the White House,” the Massachusetts senator said on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.”
Then on Friday, Warren went to Clinton’s Washington home so the two could talk about how they can work together. Warren has suddenly shot to the top of the vice president list for Clinton and while there is a long way to go before someone will be chosen. You have to think Warren’s ability to handle Trump and Progress credibility are two good reasons to keep her in Clinton’s Inner Circle.
Video in this story courtesy of CNN.
