Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that more Americans were “beginning to see” President Donald Trump is committing a “massive grift.”
Booker said, “It is them finally saying or showing what they’re all about. Donald Trump repeated over and over again, I’m not going to touch Medicaid. I’m not going to touch Medicare. I’m not going to touch Social Security, but now he is endorsing the legislation that will do just that. They are running to try to do everything they can to distract with misinformation and lies. And we’ve seen Elon Musk put up data after data after data that is just completely wrong, misleading or frankly, just misinformation about the cuts that they’re making. The truth of the matter is, in little over a month, they have cut some of the most precious things that Americans know and value, from our air safety to our protection from global infectious diseases. They are cutting the most valuable staffs that even have letters going out from Republicans, not public saying, do not do this, this is wrong.”
He added, “We are now at this, I think, a turning point in America where more Americans are beginning to see what this is really about. We saw it in his first time in office, where the first thing out of the block, he tried to take away our health care. He tried to take away valued things like, hey, if I have preexisting conditions, insurance companies can’t stop me from getting health care, and here he is again, doing what made him wildly unpopular, doing what made him one of the most unpopular presidents of the modern era, why he lost the 2020 election. Now we see him doing just the same thing again. This is a massive grift and grab of the resources of Americans in order to go to special deals, benefits, and wealth creation for people like the very conflicted Elon Musk.”
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