Cory Booker: President Trump Is Grifting and Not Governing, What He’s Doing Is an Offence to Voters

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BOOKER: "Well, American people are clearly hurting. Prices are going up. They’re losing their health care because they can’t afford it. They can’t pay their rent or their mortgage and their prescription drugs and their child care. And then they look up and they see the president of the United States grifting, not governing, but being the biggest kleptocrat we have ever seen. And it is deeply, penetratingly offensive that this president, at a time when so many Americans are hurting, is concerned about his ballroom and asking taxpayers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it, or this marble arch that he’s asking taxpayers to pay for, or even his foreign policy. So, again, this is an offense to the average voter. And I think that’s one of the reasons why it’s a principal concern. But, Jen, I want to tell you, this president is an accelerant, an extreme version, but we have normalized corruption from the Supreme Court that is — takes unlimited gifts from billionaires who have interest in matters to even Congress itself, where people are trading stocks and this corporate cash flowing in. It’s why I don’t take corporate money, don’t take issue area PAC, and I’m trying to say that we need to get rid of corruption from all three branches that has been so normalized that Donald Trump is so taking advantage of."