“Donald – what you are doing is a total disgrace,” said Warren. “You should be ashamed of yourself. Ashamed for using the megaphone of a presidential campaign to attack a judge’s character and integrity simply because you think you have some God-given right to steal people’s money and get away with it. You shame yourself and you shame this great country.”
Warren’s searing rhetoric, delivered to the largest ballroom in the Capitol Hilton, came just two hours before she told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that she was endorsing Hillary Clinton as the Democrats’ nominee for president. Warren, who once signed a letter encouraging Clinton to run for president, was the lone holdout among Democratic women in the Senate to back her. Instead, in recent weeks, she took on the role of leading Trump critic, going round after round with the candidate on his preferred social media platform, Twitter…
“I don’t think the framers envisioned a candidate accusing a federal judge being incapable of reaching a fair decision because of his ethnic descent,” said Biden. “It’s my view that when a presidential candidate attacks a federal judge, he cannot be trusted to respect the independent of the judiciary as president.” Not long after that, Biden subtly endorsed Clinton by describing the challenges facing “whoever the next president is, and in my view, God willing, it’ll be Secretary Clinton.”
Their speeches Thursday demonstrated that, throughout the summer and fall, Biden and Warren plan to play aggressive roles as political pitbulls going after Trump and linking him to congressional Republicans.
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