Elizabeth Warren blasts Trump for 'fanning flames of fear and hatred'

PHILADELPHIA — Sen. Elizabeth Warren blasted Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday "for fanning the flames of fear and hatred" to try to win the White House.

"That’s Donald Trump’s America," the Massachusetts senator and progressive favorite told a cheering crowd of delegates at the Democratic National Convention. "An America of fear and hate. An America where we all break apart. Whites against blacks and Latinos. Christians against Muslims and Jews. Straight against gay. Everyone against immigrants. Race, religion, heritage, gender — the more factions the better."

Warren said Trump is using the age-old strategy of "divide and conquer," which she called "an old story in America."

"Dr. Martin Luther King knew it," she said. "After his march from Selma to Montgomery, he spoke of how segregation was created to keep people divided. Instead of higher wages for workers, Dr. King described how poor whites in the South were fed Jim Crow, which told a poor white worker that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man. Racial hatred was part of keeping the powerful on top."

When Americans turn on each other, the people lose, she said.

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"When we turn on each other, bankers can run our economy for Wall Street, oil companies can fight off clean energy and giant corporations can ship the last good jobs overseas," Warren said. "When we turn on each other, we can’t unite to fight back against a rigged system."

"Well, I've got news for Donald Trump," she said. "The American people are not falling for it."

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Warren addressed the Philadelphia convention following remarks from first lady Michelle Obama and prior to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the other progressive rock star at the convention.

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Monday's speeches came after angry protests by Sanders' supporters — both inside and outside the convention hall — who continue to oppose Clinton's nomination despite Sanders endorsement of Clinton. Some of Sanders' own delegates even booed him Monday afternoon when he told them, "We have got to elect Hillary Clinton."

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Many on the left had hoped that Clinton would pick Warren as her running mate and were disappointed by Clinton's selection of the more-moderate Tim Kaine, a Virginia senator. Warren endorsed Clinton for president just last month as the Democratic primary season officially ended.

The Massachusetts senator has been an outspoken opponent of Trump, blasting him for his "racism, sexism, and xenophobia." Trump has labeled Warren as "Pochahontas," saying she "made up" her Native American heritage to try to claim that she was a member of a minority group.

Before becoming a senator, Warren was a professor at Harvard Law School and served as chairman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program — TARP — which was created in 2008 to try to stabilize the country's financial system as the recession hit. She has made Wall Street reform one of her top issues, calling for greater regulation of the big banks and investment houses that helped cause the recession.