Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren went after Donald Trump on Twitter again. This time, the battle involves the Republican presidential nominee’s just-announced economic plan. This isn’t the first (or the second, or the third) time the Democratic lawmaker has used her 140-character limit to go after Trump.
Warren, who helped to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, said Trump’s plan was “written by rich corporate insiders for corporate insiders.” She went on to remind the business mogul about the collapse:
.@realDonaldTrump's econ plan was written by rich corporate insider advisors to make the economy even greater for rich corporate insiders.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
“Cut regulations massively,” @realDonaldTrump? No rules & no accountability means people get ripped off & markets blow up. Remember 2008?
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
A “moratorium” on agency regulations means stopping new rules on shady payday lenders & too-big-to-fail banks, @realDonaldTrump.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
W/o rules, @realDonaldTrump, too many huge banks juiced profits by cheating ppl on mortgages, credit cards, etc, then crashed our economy.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
Trump gets advice from Bear Stearns' fmr chief economist. So @realDonaldTrump: did BS need FEWER regs when they helped crash our economy?
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
Indeed, Trump’s economic advisory team (which, as Politico reported Friday, is entirely comprised of males) is homogenous group of wealthy white wall street types, including real estate investor Steve Roth; oil and gas tycoon Harold Hamm; Vector Group President and CEO Howard Lorber; banker Steven Mnuchin; Colony Capital founder and loyal fundraiser Tom Barrack; Federal Savings Bank chairman and CEO Stephen M. Calk; investment firm CEO John Paulson; banker Andy Beal; and Cerberus Capital Management co-founder and CEO Steve Feinberg.
Warren went on to scold Trump for his own ethics, accusing him of “cheating customers & gaming the system.” This dig may also imply there is something to the billionaire’s reluctance to turn over his tax returns.
Cheating customers & gaming the system might be your business, @realDonaldTrump, but it’s not the way America is going to do business.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
And taxes? @realDonaldTrump wants billionaires & giant corps to pay EVEN LESS – so there’s less money for ed, infrastructure & research.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
Even @realDonaldTrump's childcare plan gives billionaires w/ a nanny a tax break while millions of low-income households get nothing.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
In 2013, Warren led a bipartisan effort to reinstitute portions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which prohibited commercial banks from engaging in the investment business and were repealed in 1999. The Senator admonished Trump for creating an economic plan specifically designed to “[help] rich guys like Donald Trump get richer — & [leave] everyone else behind.”
.@realDonaldTrump's economics plan is all about helping rich guys like Donald Trump get richer – & leaving everyone else behind.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
The American people aren’t dumb, @realDonaldTrump. We don’t trust you with our nuclear codes AND we don’t trust you with our economy.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2016
Donald Trump has not yet responded to Warren’s tweets, but if you see “goofy Elizabeth Warren” or something offensive toward Native Americans on the timeline, you’ll know why.