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Elizabeth Warren Turns To The Internet To Defeat Trump Appointees
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Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren turned to Twitter to find dirt on President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury pick Steve Mnuchin Friday.
The Democratic member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Development reached out to her followers on Twitter for help finding ways to delay the Senate confirmation of Mnuchin Friday afternoon.
Were you or someone you know hurt by Steve Mnuchin, OneWest Bank or Financial Freedom? Tell the @SenateDems: https://t.co/KBXukZcO1k
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 16, 2016
The tweet calling for those who were “hurt” by Mnuchin was the last in a series that attacked the investment banker for his ties to the financial community.
Steve Mnuchin & OneWest Bank swooped in after the 2008 crash & aggressively – & sometimes illegally – foreclosed on people’s homes.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 16, 2016
Steve Mnuchin & OneWest also ran Financial Freedom, which serviced 17% of reverse-mortgages but were responsible for 39% of foreclosures.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 16, 2016
.@realDonaldTrump wants to hand Steve Mnuchin the keys to @USTreasury – where he can make big banks even richer at the expense of families.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 16, 2016
Democratic leaders in both chambers of Congress are running blind in the weeks after Trump won the 2016 election, according to a Monday report from Politico. Senior members of Congress were forced to call third-party advocacy groups to use their opposition files on Trump and his appointments. The Clinton campaign apparently hasn’t shared its central Trump file with other ranking Democrats, according to the report, forcing leaders like Warren to turn to alternative methods.
As of press time, the responses to the progressive senator haven’t been positive. Most users attacked her, citing Warren’s alleged profit from bank foreclosures, and others gave advice for Warren not to “fall down the establishment rabbit hole” in her reelection bid in 2018.
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