While reading this WaPo article on Presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) earnings over her years at Harvard in terms of outside work, it suddenly occurred to me that Senator Warren might be able drag up her poll numbers through some artless nattering. First, here’s a little bit from the article:
“Elizabeth was one of the nation’s top experts on how to make sure victims hurt by bankrupt companies eventually got paid,” Warren’s website said Wednesday night. “Throughout her career, she worked to help set up trusts and other mechanisms to return $27 billion to victims and their families.”
In a separate review, The Post found that a wave of Warren’s legal work came in the early 2000s as manufacturing companies whose products contained asbestos were forced into bankruptcy by waves of personal injury claims.
A nationally recognized expert in bankruptcy law, Warren consulted for more than a dozen committees representing claimants and creditors in these cases, often in partnership with the law firm Caplin & Drysdale. …
Warren did not release details about her compensation, and that information was scant in court records. Documents reviewed by The Post showed that she made at least $462,322 from her work on 13 cases, although the total for those cases might be much higher. Warren has released only her past 10 years of tax returns, and much of her legal consulting work is not reflected in those documents.
Trustees in several asbestos cases initially objected to or raised questions about her qualifications and proposed hourly rate. In an affidavit replying to one such objection in 2001, Warren defended her expertise.
My idea is that she simply say that she’s fairly certain that she’s had a higher income than Trump. Don’t even make it a challenge, just a throw-off line that reads as a bit of ad lib. Let him find it for himself. Let him rage about it a bit, as he would with anyone who challenges him in anything.
And then tell him to prove he’s had a higher income.
Go for it, Trump-boy, she could say. But I’ll bet you won’t, because your base is addicted to the idea that you make immense amounts of money, and once they see you’re not, why, I’ll bet they’ll vote for me, instead!
It’d be at least interesting to see how he’d dance around releasing his tax returns. Each succeeding day she might mention that she’s received X e-mails from former Trump supporters who are switching their votes to Warren because she’s more successful than Trump.
That’d fry his gourd.
And he just might release his tax returns just out of spite.
