Elizabeth Warren's Fiery Attack On The Bankers' Club That Runs America
IS ELIZABETH WARREN AUDITIONING TO BE CLINTON’S V.P.?
Warren’s scathing new anti-Trump speech looks like her strongest bid yet for the number two spot.
Elizabeth Warren is livid. On the heels of reports that the Massachusetts senator will endorse Hillary Clinton for president within the coming weeks, Warren is reportedly preparing to deliver a blistering attack on the G.O.P. leaders who have endorsed Donald Trump, further positioning herself as the Democrats’ go-to attack dog and a potential vice-presidential candidate.
In prepared remarks Warren is set to deliver on Thursday, the senator will take House Speaker Paul Ryanand Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to task for their decision, however reluctant, to support Trump’s turbulent White House bid in order to seize control of the Supreme Court. “Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell want Donald Trump to appoint the next generation of judges. They want those judged to tilt the law to favor big business and billionaires like Trump,” Warren will say, reports Business Insider.
The former Harvard Law Professor, who has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of the New York billionaire over the past several months, plans to argue that despite prominent Republicans’ ongoing efforts to distance themselves from Trump, his constant stream of inflammatory comments is actually consistent with mainstream Republican politics and policies. “He’s a Mitch McConnell kind of candidate. Exactly the kind of candidate you’d expect from a Republican Party whose script for several years has been to execute a full-scale assault on the integrity of our courts,” Warren plans to say, in reference to Senate Republican leaders’ ongoing efforts to block Obama’s judicial nominees, in particular his Supreme Court pick,Merrick Garland.
Warren also plans to highlight Trump’s recent racially charged remarks about Indiana-born Judge Gonzalo Curiel, whom the real-estate mogul said couldn’t remain unbiased in the lawsuit against Trump University because of his Mexican heritage. The Huffington Post reports she will call the presumptive G.O.P. candidate a “loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud” and argue that “Donald Trump chose racism as his weapon, but his aim is exactly the same as the rest of the Republicans.” Ryan and McConnell have bothcondemned the former reality-TV star for his comments, but both fell short of renouncing their support of the candidate. Ryan, the House Speaker, called Trump’s statement a “textbook definition of a racist comment” but argued that a Trump presidency would still be better than Clinton in the Oval Office. McConnell similarly said he “couldn’t disagree more” with what was said but dodged labeling Trump’s remarks as racist.
Since clinching the Democratic nomination on Tuesday night, Clinton is fast approaching Warren levels of anti-Trump rhetoric, experimenting with intensified attacks against her presumptive general election opponent. In an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, the former secretary of state likened Trump’s behavior to that of a “demagogue” and said “we’ve seen it many, many places and times in the world, and that’s why I think it’s so dangerous.” She added that regardless of the sincerity of Trump’s rhetoric, “it’s wrong and it should not be tolerated by anybody.”
As Clinton and Warren ramp up their attacks, the possibility of the latter becoming the former New York senator’s vice presidential running mate is looking more and more like a possibility. Warren has reportedlyconsidered joining Clinton on the ticket, and sources say Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid wants the populist-progressive to take the number-two spot. For now, Clinton-Warren speculation is just grist for the Beltway rumor mill. But Warren certainly looks like she’s auditioning for the job.
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