New York – Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand on Sunday called President Donald Trump a “coward” who “punches down” and says that he is “tearing apart the moral fabric of our country.”
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Gillibrand also urged the full release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in the Russia investigation, stressing that “nobody in this country, not even the president, is above the law, or immune from accountability.” Attorney General William Barr was expected to release a summary of principal conclusions as soon as Sunday, but Democrats want to see the full details.
In what her campaign billed as Gillibrand’s first major speech as a presidential candidate, the New York senator said the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Manhattan is “a shrine to greed, division and vanity.”
Gillibrand is trying to position herself in the crowded field of Democrats seeking the party’s nomination. While some hopefuls have shied away from mentioning Trump, Gillibrand has not hesitated to do so.
“He demonizes the vulnerable and he punches down. He puts his name in bold on every building,” Gillibrand said. “He does all of this because he wants you to believe he is strong. He is not. Our president is a coward.”
Gillibrand’s speech comes as the nation awaits the key findings of Mueller’s report, which has loomed over Trump’s presidency.
She said Sunday, “It is not often that I agree with Richard Nixon, but he was right to say that the American people have the right to know whether their president is a crook.”
The speech in front of the Trump International Hotel & Tower appears to be a re-launch of Gillibrand’s campaign. She announced last January that she was exploring a run, then spent months traveling the country campaigning and raising money.
Gillibrand praised the bravery of high school students organizing to end gun violence, young people brought to the country illegally as children who are fighting for “their right to call this country home,” and “of course, the formerly well-behaved women who organized, ran for office, voted and won in 2018.”
“That is brave,” she said.
Gillibrand also talked about her own courage, which she said is evidenced by her ability to win a House seat in a district seen as a Republican stronghold, by fighting for funds to cover the cost of medical care for rescue workers and survivors of the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, and by fighting on behalf of survivors of sexual assault and harassment at the Pentagon, in Congress and on college campuses.
Hypocrite senator. When she was a yuckel congresswoman representing upstate trump voters she was a moderate / right wing dem who was pro guns etc.. Once she became senator and wanted to appeal to the NYC nutties she flipped flop and became a progressive and into women’s rights etc…
Gilbrand is a flip flop con lady
This personification of a total NOTHING dares to open her ugly mouth against POTUS. She doesn’t even come anywhere near to POTUS droppings !
She proved her “bravery ” by voting FOR the Iran deal. She is running to break the glass ceiling and unfortunately for her, she is not the only female in the race. Her positions on issues are neither innovative or compelling. Just another vanilla candidate who will melt under public scrutiny of her ego driven compulsions. Too bad – not one candidate in the crowded Democratic field has enunciated a plan that the country can believe in that realistically addresses the multitude of issues facing our country. A true debate between parties would help inform our citizens- slogans and shouting merely polarizes.
She’s a nobody. She has zero chance of getting close. So no need to even comment on her trash!
Very brave for high school kids to advocate for gun control; and very smart for adults and policy makers to listen to these children’s opinions. And for Gillibrand to back the 3 Anti-Semitic Socialists and attack Trump, also shows what Kirsten is made of; the stuff that if it gone on my shoes; I would just burn them; they would forever reek.
Memory tells me she was appointed to her present position. While she was reelected later on, it is always easier to run as an imcumbent.
COWARD? hardly! he might be a buffoon, he might not be politically polite, he might be arrogant, he might be pig headed, but a coward? No way!
Democratic presidential candidate Gillibrand is just another Demo cratic jerk looking to slander Trump to make a name for himself.
As for ruining America’s moral fiber? Obama did that with his giving the green light to social acceptance of perverts and ruining the concept of marriage.
I agree that Trump is a coward. Otherwise, why did he need two Podiatrists to lie, to claim that he had bone spurs in his heels, so he would not be subject to conscription?
She’s wasting her money and time running. She’s toast.