Yesterday Senator Elizabeth Warren ramped up the assault on Donald J. Trump, speaking in Orlando Florida to the Hispanic advocacy organization, National Council of La Raza:
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) blistered Donald Trump at an appearance in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, telling the crowd “We will never build Donald Trump’s stupid wall” and that the Republican nominee was “born with cash in his hand and hate in his heart.”
The fantasy that Trump could construct a wall on the country’s southern border that would somehow prevent undocumented immigrants from entering the U.S. is an article of faith among Trump’s magical-thinking base of support, despite the fact that its utter unfeasibility has been repeatedly explained. The Hispanic community rightly sees the emphasis on building this wall as the collective, offensive effort of Trump and his supporters to reject and rid the country of anyone of Latino and Hispanic origins, not simply those undocumented folks who they imagine are to blame for their economic insecurities. The threat of the “wall,” while a non-starter from a practical standpoint, is seen as a cudgel wielded by Trump and his supporters to threaten and berate the Hispanic community. It is a metaphor for hatred and xenophobia.
Warren’s speech was given on the first day of the NCLR’s annual national conference. Trump was not been invited to speak to the organization, an unusual departure. La Raza ‘s President, Janet Murguia officials cited his “indiscriminate vilification” of Latinos and Hispanics as the reason, adding that Trump "has not earned the privilege of our platform." Coordinating on the same day the Clinton campaign introduced its Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine in Miami, Warren specifically tailored her message to the concerns of the Latino and Hispanic community:
She contrasted an Hispanic man from Nevada, who testified in a Senate hearing on the 2008 mortgage crisis and "struggled not to cry" about telling his daughters they would lose their home, with Trump, who "was excited for the real estate market to crash. ... He was drooling over the idea of a housing meltdown, because it meant he could buy up more properties on the cheap.”
In fact Trump not only cheered the prospect of a potential housing meltdown in 2006, he released his statements in an audiobook for his scam-tainted “Trump University”:
"If there is a bubble burst, as they call it, you know you can make a lot of money," Trump said in the 2006 audio book, "How to Build a Fortune." "If you're in a good cash position -- which I'm in a good cash position today -- then people like me would go in and buy like crazy."
According to a report issued earlier this year by Trulia, a real estate listing site that examined American Community Survey data, Hispanics were hit harder by the housing and foreclosure crisis than any other ethnic group, losing their homes to vultures like Trump who capitalized on the subprime mortgage crisis while millions of Americans lost their homes through foreclosure.
Senator Warren also maintained her role as the Democratic ticket’s Twitterer-in-Chief:
Previously, Warren had tweeted at Trump saying he should catch her speech, and "I don't think you'll like it."
The state of Florida has the third largest Latino population in the country.