Why did Warren blast a hedge fund manager who has criticized Trump?
WASHINGTON — A little over a week ago, a powerful politician read something disagreeable in a news article, logged on to social media, wrote a post blasting a private citizen, and sent it to millions of loyal followers.
The politician wasn’t Donald Trump. It was Elizabeth Warren.
And the private citizen, a wealthy hedge fund manager named Whitney Tilson, is going public with his belief that Warren misunderstood the comments he made to a Bloomberg News reporter that prompted the Facebook denunciation from the liberal Massachusetts senator.
Tilson is, it turns out, an outspoken critic of president-elect Trump and a big fan of Warren’s — and, according to him, one of the few people on Wall Street who agree with much of what she says.
“I wasn’t surprised at all about her views on the financial industry and about Donald Trump. I was shocked that she was using me as an example, given that she had obviously completely misread the article and what my views really are, ’cause my views are the same as hers,” Tilson said in an interview with the Globe.
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