Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Slamming Donald Trump For Prioritizing His Own Vanity & Corruption Instead Of Lowering Costs For American Families
Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor to condemn Donald Trump and his administration for continuing to waste time and resources on corrupt, failed beautification projects, while American families struggle with an affordability crisis. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:
Trump’s reflecting pool saga continues to show how his corruption comes back to bite him.
Last Friday, Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News host turned U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia – he loves these television hosts to have places in his administration when they’re qualified or not, look at the defense department. Well, this host who was a U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and she admitted in court that Trump’s own grifting caused the reflecting pool renovation to fail. How dare she? How dare she speak the truth against Donald Trump when one of the requirements of being chosen by Trump for any important office is that you just go along with him.
I’ll tell you this: if we had serious people leading the DOJ and serving as U.S. Attorney, we would never have seen these nonsense legal cases in the first place.
Trump is living in an alternate reality when not even Pirro – an ardent Trump loyalist – will defend his lies.
What did Trump expect? Shoddy work is inevitable when you award a multi-million-dollar–no-bid contract to your personal pool guy at the taxpayer’s expense.
Trump’s reflecting pool debacle is so unbelievably stupid it would be funny except the taxpayers are paying for it — and some nearly faced jail time for it. Trump is so delusional he’d rather prosecute innocent Americans than own up to his own failure. Is it any wonder that 80% of Americans think Trump doesn’t have the right priorities?
Trump keeps spending his time – and Americans’ tax dollars – on these vanity projects.
Donald – Americans want you to lower their costs, end your war, and stop your corruption. The reflecting pool can wait.
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