Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, called Donald Trump “a loser” Monday in a series of increasingly critical tweets about the billionaire businessman.
“Let’s be honest — [Trump] is a loser. Count all his failed businesses. See how he cheated people [with] scams like Trump U,” she said in the first of many notes. “See how [Trump] kept his father’s empire afloat using strategic corporate bankruptcies to skip out on debt.”
“Listen to experts who say [Trump] might have more money today if he’d put his inheritance in an index fund & left it alone,” she added. “[Trump] knows he’s a loser. His insecurities are on parade: petty bullying, attacks on women, cheap racism, flagrant narcissism.”
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Warren, 66, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, handily defeating the incumbent Republican, Scott Brown. Since assuming office, she has made Wall Street reform and “breaking up the big banks” the focus of her career in Congress.
The senator’s anti-Trump tirade comes after the leading Republican presidential candidate responded to criticisms she leveled at him last week.
“She’s got about as much Indian blood as I have. Her whole life was based on a fraud,” he said in an interview with The New York Times. “She got into Harvard and all that because she said she was a minority.”
Trump’s comments were a reference to questions that arose during Warren’s 2012 senate campaign when her claim to American-Indian heritage, and the fact she identified as a minority when she applied for a teaching position at Harvard, came under close scrutiny.
In a radio interview Monday, Warren punched back against Trump, and called on “decent people everywhere” to fight the “bigger, uglier threat” that is his 2016 presidential campaign. She then followed this call to action with a barrage of disparaging tweets on social media.
“But just because [Trump] is a loser everywhere else doesn’t mean he’ll lose this election,” she said. “Many of history’s worst authoritarians started out as losers — and [Trump] is a serious threat.”
“The way I see it, it’s our job to make sure [Trump] ends this campaign every bit the loser that he started it,” she added.
Warren also said she is worried about the threat of violence at the casino tycoon’s campaign rallies.
Trump has been criticized for encouraging rally-goers to confront protesters at his campaign events. He even promised to pay the legal fees for whoever took a swing at a disruptor. Since making this and similar comments, Trump rallies have grown increasingly violent, and he was prompted last weekend to cancel an event in Chicago over security concerns.
Trump also raised eyebrows last week when he said there would be riots if the Republican Party denies him the nomination.
“I think you’d have riots. I think you’d have riots,” he said in an interview with CNN. “I’m representing a tremendous — many, many millions of people, in many cases first-time voters.”
