Warren Rails Against Ad ‘Where I Look Like A Commie Dictator’

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday night tore into an ad that ran during the Fox Business Network debate that criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and portrayed Warren as a dictator on a red banner at an oppressive CFPB office.

The 30-second ad from the conservative American Action Network portrays the CFPB as a Soviet-style sweat shop with workers robotically denying loans to American consumers. The narrator says that the bureau is “designed to interfere with your personal financial decisions.”

“With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, those who need help the most are are denied,” the narrator says.

The American Action Network spent $500,000 on the ad that ran during the debate and will continue to run the spot on cable in Washington, D.C., this week, according to Politico.

On Twitter, Warren called out Wall Street lobbyists for working to undermine the CFPB.

Watch the American Action Network ad:

H/t The Hill

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