Donald Trump thinks Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) cashed in on some affirmative action gravy train by claiming her Native American heritage. “Without it, she’d be nothing,” he tweeted recently.
If Goofy Elizabeth Warren, a very weak Senator, didn't lie about her heritage (being Native American) she would be nothing today. Pick her H
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 17, 2016
Really? He doesn’t know that Warren was a law professor at Harvard long before she was a Senator from Massachusetts?
Books Written
To start with, she earned a law degree. She became a respected scholar in a challenging field of law, creditors’ rights and bankruptcy. According to her resume and Wikipedia, Warren has taught at Rutgers, her alma mater, and at the following law schools: University of Texas, University of Houston, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan between 1978 and 1995. In 1995, she joined the faculty of Harvard Law School.
Warren published many articles on bankruptcy policy and what causes people to go bankrupt. She and her coauthor found that half of all consumer bankruptcies result from medical bills, not lack of responsibility.
She has written or co-authored eight books about bankruptcy law:
- As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America (1989)
- The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt (2001)
- The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle Class Parents Are Going Broke (2004)
- All Your Worth (2006)
- Casenote Legal Briefs: Commercial Law (2006)
- The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems (2008) (6th Ed.)
- Chapter 11: Reorganizing American Businesses (2008)
- Secured Credit: A Systems Approach (2008)
She also wrote her autobiography, A Fighting Chance (2014), unlike Trump, who had a ghostwriter.
Advisory Roles
Senator Warren served as advisor to several government entities as they made policy decisions:
- The National Bankruptcy Review Commission (1995 to about 2005)
- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Commission on Economic Inclusion (2006 to 2010)
- Chair, Congressional Oversight Panel for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (a/k/a the “bailout”) November 2008 to 2010
She also worked hard as Special Assistant to President Obama to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was primarily her idea.
Warren accomplished all that before she was elected to the Senate in 2012.
Get over yourself, Donald. Senator Warren grew up in poverty and supported her extended family while she worked for her success. And she never escaped her debts through bankruptcy. You, by comparison, got a $1 million loan from your daddy and put your own businesses through bankruptcy four times.
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