Sen. Elizabeth Warren lashed out at Donald Trump's selection of Steve Mnuchin for treasury secretary, calling the multimillionaire Hollywood producer and former Goldman Sachs partner "the Forrest Gump of the financial crisis."
In a statement obtained by Politico, Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said:
“Steve Mnuchin is the Forrest Gump of the financial crisis — he managed to participate in all the worst practices on Wall Street.
"He spent two decades at Goldman Sachs helping the bank peddle the same kind of mortgage products that blew up the economy and sucked down billions in taxpayer bailout money before he moved on to run a bank that was infamous for aggressively foreclosing on families.
"His selection as Treasury Secretary should send shivers down the spine of every American who got hit hard by the financial crisis, and is the latest sign that Donald Trump has no intention of draining the swamp and every intention of running Washington to benefit himself and his rich buddies."
Mnuchin is the executive producer of such box-office hits as "Sully," "Mad Max: Fury Road," "The Lego Movie," "American Sniper" and "The Conjuring 2." His latest movie, released last week, was "Rules Don’t Apply," written and directed by Warren Beatty.
Warren's comparison of Mnuchin to Forrest Gump refers to the slow-witted character played by Tom Hanks in the Oscar-winning 1994 drama of the same name. In the PG-13 movie, Gump ricochets through time to some of history's most noted events, in some cases influencing them.
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