Billionaire Lloyd Blankfein Hits Back at Elizabeth Warren With ‘Tribal’ Dog Whistle
Elizabeth Warren included footage of the former Goldman Sachs CEO attacking her in new campaign ad.
Brian Snyder / Reuters
Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein fired back at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Twitter Thursday morning with a provocative joke that clearly served to remind voters about her Native American heritage controversy. “Vilification of people as a member of a group may be good for her campaign, not the country,” he wrote, adding, “Maybe tribalism is just in her DNA.”
The billionaire businessman was responding to a new Warren 2020 campaign ad that features clips of him and several other billionaire businessmen attacking her policies. The ad is currently scheduled to run on CNBC. “She probably thinks more of cataclysmic change to the economic system as opposed to tinkering,” Blankfein says in the ad before the words “Earned $70 million during the financial crash” appear over his face.
Surprised to be featured in Sen Warren’s campaign ad, given the many severe critics she has out there. Not my candidate, but we align on many issues. Vilification of people as a member of a group may be good for her campaign, not the country. Maybe tribalism is just in her DNA.
— Lloyd Blankfein (@lloydblankfein) November 14, 2019
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