伊丽莎白·沃伦周日对前总统川普进行了反击因为他打电话抗议他可能被捕与支付成人电影明星斯托米·丹尼尔斯有关。
“暴力从来都不是正确的答案，我一直为此担忧。但这是唐纳德·特朗普的另一个例子，他只是试图促进唐纳德·特朗普的利益，而不是国家其他人的利益。，告诉美国广播公司“本周”联合主持人乔纳森·卡尔。
沃伦说:“让我们清楚这里发生了什么:没有人可以凌驾于法律之上，即使是美国前总统，如果已经进行了调查，并且应该允许调查适当进行，如果是时候提起公诉，那么他们就会提起公诉。”“这就是我们的法律体系的运作方式。”
周六，特朗普在社交媒体上发表声明称，他将于周二被捕，他的支持者应该抗议“夺回我们的国家”。一名发言人后来反驳说，这位前总统只是“强调他的无辜和我们不公正制度的武器化”，没有任何即将被捕的通知。
曼哈顿地区检察官阿尔文·布拉格办公室一直在调查特朗普是否伪造商业记录关于他向丹尼尔斯付款-据称是为了掩盖丹尼尔斯声称与特朗普的婚外情-消息人士此前告诉美国广播公司新闻。
虽然布拉格的办公室没有对特朗普的社交媒体帖子发表评论，但布拉格在美国广播公司新闻频道获得的一封给员工的电子邮件中写道，“我们不容忍恐吓我们办公室或威胁纽约法治的企图。”
特朗普否认有不当行为，包括与丹尼尔斯有染，但承认他付钱给她，一度辩护说这是“名人和富人中非常常见的”他的律师已经投了钱作为勒索的报酬。
在周日的“本周”节目中，沃伦表示，特朗普声称受到政治迫害是错误的，他的前副总统迈克·彭斯也赞同这一观点。在另一个“本周”的会谈中。
“没有理由抗议这一点。这是法律应该发挥的作用，没有对任何人的恐惧或偏袒，”沃伦说。
2023年3月16日，在DC华盛顿州国会山，参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦在参议院财政委员会关于2024年拟议预算请求的听证会上发表讲话。
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她的采访主要集中在金融行业随着硅谷银行的倒闭这导致联邦政府介入，以确保SVB的所有储户收到他们的钱。
卡尔向参议院银行委员会成员沃伦施压，询问她认为应该采取的任何后果，包括刑事指控，以及她是否已经从监管机构那里了解到是否有任何其他机构处于危险之中。
她拒绝谈论“私人谈话”，但表示，“让我明确一下我现在的呼吁:我呼吁对(美联储)和这里的整个监管体系进行独立调查。美联储不仅仅是要这么做。”
“你认为我们会受到刑事指控吗?”卡尔问道。
“看情况。...司法部已经开始调查。我认为他们这样做是合适的。我们会看到事实将他们带向何方。但我们必须仔细研究这个问题，”她说。
沃伦重申了她对她所称的银行破产和救助周期的愤怒，并表示政府是时候对那些不在全国最大银行之列但仍拥有数十亿美元资产的银行实施监管了。
“我也呼吁国会...削弱美联储削弱监管的能力，并要求这些首席执行官承担责任，这样我们就有法律收回他们的奖金和巨额工资。而且，当你炸掉一家银行时，你应该永远被禁止从事银行业，”她说。
她特别指出了最近放松对SVB等银行监管的历史，这是由SVB前总裁兼首席执行官Greg Becker等高管敦促的，他淡化了对整体经济的危险。
就在他的银行倒闭前几天，贝克尔出售了超过350万美元的公司股票，同时公开向投资者表现出信心，美国广播公司新闻先前报道。(贝克尔没有回应ABC的多次置评请求。)
“这些价值数十亿美元的大银行承担了大量风险，他们提高了短期利润，给自己发放了巨额奖金和高薪，并让自己的银行破产。沃伦在“本周”节目中说:“所以，我们现在的立场是，联邦政府现在必须介入并支持这些价值数十亿美元的银行。”
“我认为这分为两部分:一部分是政府显然在这么做。但也有很多人说，哎呀，如果他们这么长时间以来一直受到如此宽松的监管，那么看看其他银行的情况就很重要了。"
然而，沃伦拒绝在2018年支持解除监管法案的一些民主党人之后采取行动，称她对取消社区银行的压力测试没有问题，但应该对更大的机构重新实施监管。
“你得到了500多亿美元?然后，天哪，你应该接受压力测试和适当的资本要求等等，”她说。
Warren reacts to Trump's call for protests over possible arrest: 'No one is above the law'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday pushed back on former President Donald Trumpover his call to protest his potential arrestrelated to paying the adult film star Stormy Daniels.
"Violence is never the right answer, and I always worry about it. But this is another case of Donald Trump just trying to advance the interests of Donald Trump, not of the rest of the nation," Warren, D-Mass., told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
"Let's be clear about what's going on here: No one is above the law, not even the former president of the United States, and if there has been an investigation, and that investigation should be allowed to go forward appropriately, if it's time to bring indictments, then they'll bring indictments," Warren said. "That's how our legal system works."
In a statement on social media on Saturday, Trump claimed he would be arrested on Tuesday and that his supporters should protest to "take our nation back." A spokesperson later walked some of that back, saying the former president was merely "highlighting his innocence and the weaponization of our injustice system" and that there was no notification of an imminent arrest.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's officehas been investigating whether Trump falsified business recordsin connection with his payment to Daniels -- to allegedly cover up what Daniels claimed was an affair with Trump -- sources previously told ABC News.
While Bragg's office had no comment on Trump's social media post, Bragg wrote in an email to staff obtained by ABC News that “we do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York."
Trump has denied wrongdoing, including having an affair with Daniels, but has admitted he paid her, once defending it as "very common among celebrities and people of wealth." His attorney has cast the moneyas an extortion payment.
On "This Week" on Sunday, Warren said Trump was wrong to claim political persecution, a view echoed by his former vice president, Mike Pence,in a separate "This Week" sit-down.
"There's no reason to protest this. This is the law operating as it should, without fear or favor for anyone," Warren said.
Much of her interview was focused on the financial industryin the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, which led to the federal government stepping in to ensure all depositors at SVB received their money.
Karl pressed Warren, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, on any consequences she believes should be meted out, including criminal charges, and whether she had learned from regulators if any other institutions were at risk.
She declined to speak about "private conversations" but said, "Let me be clear about what I'm calling for right now: I'm calling for an independent investigation of the [Federal Reserve] and the whole regulatory system here. The Fed doesn’t just get to do it."
"Do you think we could see criminal charges?" Karl asked.
"It depends. ... The Department of Justice has opened an investigation. I think that’s appropriate for them to do. We’ll see where the facts take them. But we’ve got to take a close look at this," she said.
Warren reiterated her anger with what she described as the cycles of banking busts and bailouts and said it was time for the government to impose regulations on banks that are not among the biggest in the country but still hold billions of dollars in assets.
"I'm also calling on Congress ... to roll back the ability of the Fed to weaken regulations and calling for these CEOs to be held accountable so that we have laws in place to get claw-backs of their bonuses, of their giant salaries. And, when you explode a bank, you ought to be banned from banking forever," she said.
In particular, she singled out the recent history of lessening regulations on banks like SVB, urged on by executives like former President and CEO of SVB Greg Becker, who had played down the danger to the broader economy, she said.
Just days before his bank's collapse, Becker sold more than $3.5 million of his company stock holdings while publicly appearing confident to investors,ABC News previously reported. (Becker has not responded to multiple requests for comment from ABC.)
"These big multibillion-dollar banks loaded up on risk, they boosted their short-term profits, they gave themselves huge bonuses and big salaries and they exploded their banks. And so, where we stand now is now the federal government's got to step back in and back up these multibillion-dollar banks," Warren said on "This Week."
"And I think there's two halves to this: One half is the government is clearly doing that. But there are a lot of people saying, 'Gee, if they've been so lightly regulated for such a long period, it's important to look under the hood and see what's happening with the other banks.'"
Warren, however, declined to go after some of her fellow Democrats for supporting a deregulatory bill in 2018, saying she had no problem with removing stress tests for community banks but that regulations should be reimposed on larger institutions.
"You got more than $50 billion? Then by golly, you ought to be subjected to stress tests and decent capital requirements and so on," she said.
