Lloyd Blankfein, former chairman and chief government officer of Goldman Sachs GroupMichael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty PhotosBillionaire funding ban
Lloyd Blankfein, former chairman and chief government officer of Goldman Sachs Group
Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Photos
Billionaire funding banker Lloyd Blankfein on Thursday took a swipe at 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, making him the newest uber-rich man to take a shot at her whereas she requires increased taxes on the rich.
“Vilification of individuals as a member of a gaggle could also be good for her marketing campaign, not the nation,” mentioned Blankfein, the 65-year-old Goldman Sachs senior chairman, in a tweet.
“Perhaps tribalism is simply in her DNA,” Blankfein added in an obvious dig at Warren’s much-criticized prior claims of Native American ancestry. President Donald Trump has additionally mocked Warren over her claims, usually calling her “Pocahontas.”
He served as CEO and chairman of Goldman Sachs from 2006 till the top of 2018.
Blankfein was responding on to Warren’s most up-to-date marketing campaign advert — which premiered on CNBC Thursday — which takes purpose at him and different billionaires who’ve excoriated her rhetoric and insurance policies, most notably her proposed wealth tax on the richest People.
Her most outspoken adversary on this entrance, investor Leon Cooperman, had written a prolonged public letter to Warren admonishing her to desert her “soak-the-rich positions” and highlighting the philanthropic achievements of the wealthy.
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