Warren bashes Trump, money acts at town-hall event
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed President Trump as “a bully” yesterday and railed against Republican tax cuts in a town-hall event in Natick.
“Donald Trump is a bully,” Warren told reporters after the event at the Belkin Family Lookout Farm in Natick. “Donald Trump wants us to talk about anything other than what’s going on in the Trump administration.”
Warren’s comments come a few days after Trump at a rally of his own swiped at one of his favorite targets — the Massachusetts senator’s claims of Native American heritage. The president told the audience he’d give $1 million to a charity of Warren’s choice if she took a DNA test that proved her right.
“He tries to bully me in order to shut me up,” Warren said, later adding, “I seem to be in his head.”
Warren’s name is often floated as a likely Democratic frontrunner for the 2020 presidential election. Though she continues to brush off speculation — “I’m not running for president,” she said again yesterday in response to a question about it — she barely mentioned her own current race for re-election to the
‘Donald Trump wants us to talk about anything other than what’s going on in the Trump administration.’ — U.S. Sen. ELIZABETH WARREN
U.S. Senate this year.
Warren focused on national politics, bashing Republicans on the tax cut bill passed in December and attempts to unravel the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. Warren repeated her populist themes, saying the GOP was simply benefitting rich people and corporations through tax cuts instead of spending more on opioid addiction, infrastructure and education.
“Right now America won’t spend the money,” Warren said, saying the tax cuts should be repealed and the regained revenue should go toward her list of priorities.
Warren also objected to Trump choosing a new Supreme Court justice off the list from The Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization she called “right-wing extremists.”
Warren told the Herald she would be willing to vote for someone like retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, known as a swing voter on the court, saying he has been fair-minded and respects the rule of law.
“I would like to see a Supreme Court nominee what would adhere to those principles,” Warren said.