U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) , an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump took some shots, as expected, at the administration during a keynote address at a gathering Sunday night for a fundraiser for the Detroit chapter of the NAACP at Cobo Conference Center.
“I haven’t come to Detroit in a moment of triumph,” Warren said, according to Oralandar Brand-Williams of The Detroit News. “ No, I’ve come to Detroit today in a moment of crisis.”
Warren said that “a man who calls African-Americans ‘thugs’ is now the president of the United States” and pervasive racism still blocks African-Americans and other people of color from opportunities.
“A man who was too racist to become a judge runs the Department of Justice,” she said, referring to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session. She said Sessions “is on a mission. A mission to turn back the clock 157 years [to the Civil War's start]. We need to be on a mission too, a mission to stop him from turning this country back.”
