Sen. Elizabeth Warren continued making the case against Donald Trump in classic Warren fashion in a Tuesday speech (video below):
"Donald Trump was drooling over the idea of a housing meltdown because it meant he could buy up more property on the cheap. What kind of a man does that? What kind of a man roots for people to get thrown out of their house? What kind of man roots for people to get thrown out of their jobs?" Warren asked in a speech at the Center for Popular Democracy.
"I’ll tell you exactly what kind of a man does that," she continued. "It is man who cares about no one but himself. A small, insecure money-grubber who doesn’t care who gets hurt, so long as he makes a profit off it. What kind of man does that? A man who will never be president of the United States."
Warren went on to point out that Trump is vowing to help Wall Street by undoing Dodd-Frank, snickering slightly as she asked “Can Donald Trump even name three things that Dodd-Frank does? Seriously, someone ask him.” Oh, and on Trump’s taxes?
… she attacked the GOP nominee for saying that paying taxes is the equivalent of throwing money down the drain.
“Let’s be clear,” she said. “Nurses, and teachers and dock workers pay their fair share to keep Trump’s businesses going. Programmers and engineers and small business owners, they pay their fair share to support our military who show courage and sacrifice every day. Donald Trump thinks that supporting them is throwing money down the drain? Then I say we throw Donald Trump down the drain.”
It’s a thing of beauty—rhetorical devastation of a target that’s up there with Joe Biden’s owning of Paul Ryan in their 2012 vice presidential debate. Of course, Trump is stuck with the same kind of crap he directs against everyone, with an added dose of racism in Warren’s case.
Trump also went after Warren because she bought foreclosed homes in the 1990s. Warren’s Senate campaign said in 2012 that “Elizabeth and (her husband) Bruce are fortunate to be in a position where they can help their family. They have been able to help relatives buy their homes and her nephew - a contractor - fix up houses.”