Elizabeth Warren calls Donald Trump a 'selfish little sleazeball'
She's called him a "pathetic coward," a "thin-skinned racist bully," and a "chicken," and on Tuesday during a Hillary Clinton rally in North Carolina, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) came up with a new way to insult Donald Trump.
"I hope you heard Donald Trump in the debate, when he said he was smart not to pay any taxes," she told the crowd. "He is smart, and all of you who pay taxes are dumb. Everyone who pays taxes to keep our roads and bridges working is dumb. Everyone who pays taxes to support our world-class military is dumb. Everyone who pays taxes to support medical research and scientific research is dumb, dumb because Donald Trump doesn't plan to pay, he just plans to use all those things you pay for." So, Warren asked, "what kind of man does that? A selfish little sleazeball, a man who will never be president of the United States."
Warren then set her sights on Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, who is seeking a third term. Trump "hasn't been hiding who he is," Warren said, and Burr is "like a puppy on a leash, sticking right there with Donald Trump. If Richard Burr is just going to be Donald Trump's lap dog, then let him go off and do that, but the people of North Carolina need a strong, independent voice to fight for the families of North Carolina, and that is Deborah Ross," the Democratic nominee. Trump has yet to respond, but it's easy to imagine him high up in Trump Tower muttering, "That nasty woman!"
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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