Elizabeth Warren Slams Senate Republicans Over Trump Nominee’s Ethics

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:46 pm

Elizabeth Warren took to Twitter to show the country what an informed Tweetstorm looks like, warning that GOP senators are trying to rush the process of confirming Trump’s “crime wave” cabinet, and demanding that they “must put our country’s interests before their own.”

.@SenateMajLdr & the @SenateGOP are desperately trying to rush Senate confirmation hearings for @realDonaldTrump’s cabinet nominees.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 7, 2017

The @SenateGOP are bypassing important steps to make sure these billionaire cabinet nominees are free of dangerous conflicts of interest.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 7, 2017

Confirmation hearings historically aren’t conducted until the @OfficeGovEthics certifies that each nominee has no unresolved conflicts.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 7, 2017

Confirmation hearings start Tuesday, so @SenSchumer & I asked @OfficeGovEthics how the ethics reviews are going. pic.twitter.com/z04Vyhxx5b

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 7, 2017

.@OfficeGovEthics wrote back with “great concern” about the @SenateGOP’s confirmation hearings. pic.twitter.com/YIC6e5TBSs

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 7, 2017

This is ridiculous. @realDonaldTrump’s noms can’t drag their feet on ethics paperwork while their Senate friends try to run out the clock.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 7, 2017

Cabinet officials must put our country's interests before their own. No conf hearings should be held until we’re certain that’s the case.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 7, 2017

Warren has been an outspoken critic of Wall Street hijinks and corruption. Now faced with the specter of a corrupt Trump administration abetted by the Republican-controlled Congress, she made it clear Republicans do not have the best interest of their constituents at heart, but rather their own.

CNBC reported today that the U.S. ethics office said ‘We seem to have lost contact’ with Trump Team since election, but the truth is, the Trump Team lost contact with the idea of ethics long before the election.

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Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen's Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.

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