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Warren: Trump like Ryan, McConnell in GOP's 'full-scale assault' on judiciary
Warren: Trump like Ryan, McConnell in GOP's 'full-scale assault' on judiciary
(CNN)Sen.
Elizabeth Warren will link Donald Trump's recent criticism of a federal
judge to a larger indictment of the Republican Party's "full-scale
assault" on the federal courts system during a speech Thursday.
The
progressive senator, set to speak to the American Constitution Society,
will charge Trump and top Republicans -- including House Speaker Paul
Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- with attempting to
delegitimize the judiciary in order to favor "the rich and powerful,"
according to a preview of Warren's remarks.
"Donald
Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned, fraud who has never risked
anything for anyone and serves nobody but himself. And that is just one
of the many reasons why he will never be president of the United
States," Warren will say.
Citing Trump's treatment of
the federal judge overseeing the Trump University lawsuit as an example
of this effort, the Massachusetts senator will say: "Judge (Gonazalo)
Curiel has survived far worse than Donald Trump. He has survived actual
assassination attempts. He'll have no problem surviving Trump's nasty
temper tantrums."
Trump
has called the Indiana-born judge of Mexican heritage a "hater" and "a
Mexican," claiming Curiel is biased against him because of his proposal
to build a border wall.
Warren will
argue Trump's broadsides against the judge -- which received widespread
condemnation from many Republicans -- are part of a pattern established
by Senate Republicans who have stymied judicial appointees from the
Obama administration.
"Where
do you suppose Donald Trump got the idea that he can personally attack
judges, regardless of the law, whenever they don't bend to the whims of
billionaires and big business? Trump isn't a different kind of
candidate. He's a Mitch McConnell kind of candidate ...Trump is also
House Speaker Paul Ryan's kind of candidate," Warren will say.
Ryan
and McConnell, for their part, have publicly criticized Trump for
targeting Curiel -- though both have also maintained they will support
Trump despite the blowback.
Ryan called Trump's comments about the judge "the textbook definition of racism" earlier in the week, but on Wednesday, he reiterated his support for Trump at a closed-door meeting with House Republicans and asked his colleagues to unite behind the presumptive nominee, according to several members who attended the session.
McConnell,
meanwhile, had called Trump's attacks "totally inappropriate" and urged
him to apologize. But the Senate majority leader told CNN's Erin
Burnett on "OutFront" Wednesday night he thinks there's "still time for (Trump) to act like a presidential candidate" and called the businessman's more subdued primary night speech "a good step in the right direction."
Sources familiar with Warren's thinking say the senator is treading cautiously entering into 2016 waters,
planning to put the full backing of her progressive star power behind
Hillary Clinton -- but is also eager to avoid the appearance of pushing
out Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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