Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sharply criticized President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday for populating his transition team with the very lobbyists and political insiders he had previously targeted with his “drain the swamp” campaign.
“The American people are watching to see if you were sincere in your campaign promises,” Warren wrote in a letter to Trump, referencing his pledge to “not be controlled by the donors, special interests and lobbyists who have corrupted our politics and politicians for far too long.”
The reality of Trump’s transition team and rumored cabinet choices, Warren noted, is a harsh departure from that rhetoric.
Warren spent the bulk of her letter describing to Trump the various industry ties of the “over twenty Wall Street elites, industry insiders, and lobbyists making decisions that could have huge implications for their clients or employers” who Trump has either staffed on his transition team or flagged as possible members of his administration.
She listed several Wall Street financiers “with demonstrated records of failure during the 2008 financial crisis:” David Malpass, Paul Atkins, Steve Mnuchin and Lewis Eisenberg. She also pointed to lobbyists advising the transition team who represent the oil industry, telecommunications companies and defense manufacturers, who could then recommend colleagues to police the corporations they used to represent.
“The early reports of who is on your transition team indicate that, despite your campaign promises, you are looking to industry insiders, lobbyists and other special interests to shape Washington D.C. under your administration,” Warren wrote.
But she ended the letter optimistically: “I would be more than happy to provide you with a list of qualified advisers and potential nominees.”
Pence is clearing house of the lobbyists.
BTW, is there any context where liberal dykes is ok to say or put into print ? King’s response to quote from Bannon.
Besides agreeing with her politics, I find Warren’s deft trolling to be refreshing.
Don’t look for HO’s supporters to start expressing buyer’s remorse because, like their Dear Leader, they cannot ever believe themselves to be wrong. About anything.
So look forward to Grandma living on your couch once Ryan succeeds in gutting Social Security and Medicare and don’t expect those great coal and infrastructure jobs to appear anytime soon.
But hey, you did get that red hat so all’s good, right?
Deft trolling needs to be replaced by whatever passes for Hellfire missile trolling.
I think it would be more effective to target nominees one at a time, targeting those who are most prominent and most corrupt first with a fusillade of accurate oppo information.