Pocahontas thought she could get one over on the Trump Administration, but instead she got totally roasted to her face by a Trump nominee who pulled no punches in showing her up and trolling her in front of the nation. That came on Tuesday, April 21, when Federal Reserve nominee Kevin Warsh appeared in front of the Senate Banking Committee for a confirmation hearing.
During it, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tried to go on the attack against him, and Warsh, unconcerned, just trolled her by mocking her questions. Particularly, when Warren asked Warsh, who Trump has picked to replace Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, to name an aspect of the Trump “agenda” with which he disagrees, he trolled her with a very funny and very sarcastic reply. That drover her up the wall.
Kicking off that absurd and pointless part of the hearing, Sen. Warren asked Warsh, “Name one aspect of President Trump’s economic agenda with which you disagree … I’m asking for something you disagree with Donald Trump on.” He first responded by telling her, “That’s not something I’m prepared to do. The Fed should stay in its lane.”
But she insisted, saying, “Just one, just one little place where you disagree with Donald Trump.” Warsh wasn’t having it with her antics, and fired back with a heavy dose of sarcasm. He began by leading her on, saying, “Well, I do have a disagreement actually, Senator, with the president.”
Then, getting to the punchline, Warsh joked, much to her discomfiture and fury, “I think even this morning, he said that he thought I was out of central casting. I think central casting, I’d look older, grayer, maybe show up here with a cigar of sorts.”
Warren then started rambling about the independence of the Federal Reserve, saying, “Quite adorable. But, you know, we need a Fed chair who is independent. That’s the only way we preserve the independence of the Federal Reserve. If you can’t answer these questions, you don’t have the courage and you don’t have the independence.”
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During the hearing, Warren also attacked Warsh for being involved in designing the post-Great Financial Crisis bank bailouts, declaring, “In our meeting last week, we discussed the 2008 financial crash, where 8 million people lost their jobs, 10 million people lost their homes and millions more lost their life savings. Giant banks, however, got hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts… and he said to me that he has no regrets about anything he did.”
She also bizarrely and absurdly insisted that Warsh was tied to communist China and Epstein, ignoring that her own party is the actually guilty party in that regard. She said, “The Fed has been plagued by deeply disturbing ethics scandals in recent years. It’s critical that the next chair have no financial conflicts — none. You have more than $100 million in investments that you have refused to disclose. So let me ask: do the Juggernaut Fund or THSDFS LLC invest in companies affiliated with President Trump or his family, companies tied to money laundering, Chinese-controlled firms, or financing vehicles linked to Jeffrey Epstein?”