WATCH: Donald Trump Gets Roasted By Elizabeth Warren On Fire

Today was a busy news day for political junkies. Leading off was the official endorsement of Hillary Clinton by President Obama. Obama released video of his support following a White House meeting with Sen. Bernie Sanders. However, what is likely to be best remembered is the scorching treatment Donald Trump got from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the woman he derisively and offensively calls “Pocahontas.”

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In a speech before the American Constitution Society, Warren held nothing back as she blistered the GOP’s most embarrassing nominee in decades. The best way to appreciate this is to watch the whole speech yourself (video below), but here are some choice excerpts. Warren began by setting up the problem:

“What we’ve seen over the past three years, accelerating over the past three months and even the past three weeks, is alarming. Powerful interests are launching a full scale assault on the integrity of the federal judiciary and its judges.”

Warren went on to criticize Republicans in Congress for trying to “undermine the fundamental principle of equal justice under law” by “extremist Republicans who reject the legitimacy of President Obama” in order to “advance the agenda only of the wealthy and powerful.” She tied all of this to the unprecedented obstruction of Judge Merrick Garland, Obama’s appointment to the Supreme Court, who Senate Republicans refuse to even consider.

And then she put forth the main event: “Even disqualifying judges based on their professional background isn’t enough for Donald Trump.”

“Trump tells everyone who will listen that he is a great businessman. But let’s be honest. He is just a guy who inherited a fortune and kept it rolling along by cheating people. And you know, when that’s you’re business model, sooner or later you’re gonna run into legal trouble. And Donald Trumphas run into a lot of legal trouble.”

This was Warren’s introduction to her commentary on Trump University. She noted that Trump’s own former employees referred to it as “one big fraudulent scheme.” She also pointed out how Trump U’s playbook directed his salespeople to target financially vulnerable victims who would be unable to fight back.

Warren’s speech also covered Trump’s vile, racist attacks of Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over the Trump U case in San Diego. She noted that Trump sent his “army of surrogates” out to smear Curiel and ridiculed Trump’s theory that his “own bigotry compromises the judge’s neutrality.”

“As all federal judges, Judge Curiel is bound by the federal code of judicial ethics not to respond to these attacks. Trump is picking on someone who is ethically bound not to defend himself. Exactly what you would expect from a thin-skinned, racist bully.”

Then Warren outlined the heroic record of Curiel, a man who served as a prosecutor who took on Mexican drug cartels at risk to his own life. He lived for a year in seclusion, under the protection of federal agents. He was later appointed to a California state court by Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and then to the federal bench by President Obama. It is a record of honor that Warren then contrasts with Trump:

“That’s what kind of a man Judge Curiel is. What kind of a man is Donald Trump? Donald Trump says that Judge Curiel should be ashamed of himself. No Donald. 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 continued…

“Donald Trump says ‘they don’t look into what Judge Curiel is doing because Judge Curiel is a total disgrace.’ No, Donald, what you are doing is a total disgrace. Race-baiting a judge who spent years defending America from the terror of murderers and drug traffickers simply because long ago his family came to America from somewhere else? You Donald Trump are a total disgrace.”

The distinctions between Judge Curiel and Donald Trump could not be more stark. And Warren laid them out with righteous vigor:

“Judge Curiel is one of countless American patriots who has spent decades quietly serving his country. Sometimes at great risk to his own life. Donald Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraid who has never risked anything for anyone and who served no one but himself.”

With that Warren promised that Trump would “never be President of the United States.” Then she made sure to tie Republican leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to Trump’s bigotry. She called Trump a Mitch McConnell kind of candidate who would “execute a full-scale assault on the integrity of our courts.” And she said that the GOP wants the law to tilt “in favor of big businesses and billionaires,” they just want Trump to “quit being so vulgar and obvious about it.”

Warren closed with a rousing appeal to activism saying that…

“Now is not the time to stand by. Now is the time to stand up.” And that “We will not allow a small, insecure, thin-skinned, wannabe tyrant, or his allies in the Senate, to destroy the rule of law in the United States of America”

This speech is well worth watching in full for the inspirational drama it provides. You can be sure that Trump will watch it and respond with some asinine and insulting crack about “Pocahontas” or what a loser she is. Rest assured that he will not respond with anything substantive to the issues she raised because he is simply incapable of doing so.

[Update: As predicted, Trump responded in his typically juvenile way with a tweet saying “Pocahontas is at it again! Goofy Elizabeth Warren, one of the least productive U.S. Senators, has a nasty mouth. Hope she is V.P. choice.” No substance, no counter-argument, no sign of intelligent life, just insults]

How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.
Available now at Amazon.

Not Satisfied With Destroying The GOP, Donald Trump Is Also Destroying Fox News

There is a rapidly escalating sense of desperation on the part of the Republican Party. More and more GOP politicians and pundits are publicly expressing their dismay, if not outright disgust, for Donald Trump as their nominee for president. Conservative radio talker Hugh Hewitt is even advocating that the party dump Trump at their convention next month or “get killed” in the November election.

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Now there is evidence that it isn’t just the GOP that Trump’s hateful rhetoric and childish demeanor are bringing down. TVNewser is reporting that the Nielsen ratings for last Tuesday’s primary night show Fox News getting knocked off of their top tier status among cable news networks:

“CNN was No. 1 in the key A25-54 demo […] And in a rare occurrence, MSNBC topped Fox News in the demo in both prime time (8 p.m. – 11 p.m.) and extended coverage (7 p.m. – 2 a.m.) MSNBC finished No. 2 in total viewers from 10 – 1 a.m. ET.”

It’s one thing for CNN to rank first in the ratings, which they have done several times in the past year. But for Fox News to be losing to perennial third-placer MSNBC is a monumental failure that indicates much deeper problems for both the network and the Republican Party for which it shills. This upset on primary night is significant because it reveals that the television audience in general is keenly interested in Hillary Clinton’s victory and historic achievement as the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party. At the same time it shows that Fox’s viewers were too depressed to even tune in, except for the brief remarks made by Donald Trump and his new friend, the TelePrompter.

It should come as no surprise that Trump’s affect on Fox News has produced negative results. He has been perhaps the harshest critic of the network, despite the fact that they have coddled him and devoted more of their airtime to him than to any other candidate. For that generosity Trump unleashed a non-stop tirade against numerous Fox News personnel. As News Corpse reported in April:

Ordinarily, any Republican candidate would be conscious of the sway that Fox holds over the party and the fate of anyone hoping to rise up in it. But Trump, with an apparently reckless lack of concern, has spent much of the last nine months mercilessly battering the network and its staff. He said of Megyn Kelly that she “is the worst” and has a “terrible show.” He called Karl Rove a “total fool” and “a biased dope.” He said that George Will is a “broken down political pundit” and “boring.” Chris Stirewalt was deemed “one of the dumbest political pundits on television.” Trump laughed off Charles Krauthammer as “a totally overrated clown,” “a loser,” and “a dummy.” And wrapping up the whole network for his disapproval, he tweeted that he was “having a really hard time watching Fox News.” Then he called on his followers to boycott the network. He even went after one of the major shareholders of Fox’s parent corporation.

Now that Trump is the GOP’s nominee, his legions of glassy-eyed disciples are all too happy to obediently shun Fox News. And the rest of Fox’s audience is cowering under the covers, too afraid to turn on the television and be faced with the reality of an imploding Republican campaign and a Hillary Clinton presidency.

How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.
Available now at Amazon.

Trump’s contribution to the decline of both the Republican Party and its media mouthpiece, Fox News, is certain to exacerbate the anxiety of the nation’s right-wingers. This may not be what Sarah Palin meant when she called Trump “a golden wrecking ball.” But in an oddly ironic twist of fate, America’s Democrats and liberals might want to send The Donald a thank you note.