Cory Booker EXPLODES on DHS secretary about Trump’s racist comments, gets eyeroll response
New Jersey senator eviscerates Homeland Security secretary after she claimed she doesn't recall Trump's racist statements.
New Jersey senator eviscerates Homeland Security secretary after she claimed she doesn't recall Trump's racist statements.
Cory Booker delivered an impassioned rebuke of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen after she appeared to have amnesia over President Trump’s “shithole” comments about Haiti and African nations.
During a Homeland Security Oversight Oversight committee hearing, Kirstjen Nielsen claimed to not recall if Trump indeed used the racist rhetoric that has already been confirmed by senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham.
Watch Cory Booker’s passionate delivery below: (A very visible Nielsen eyeroll appears at around 4:28)
‘Your amnesia is complicity’
“The commander in chief, in an Oval Office meeting, referring to people from African countries and Haitians with the most vile and vulgar language — that language festers,” Booker said during his lengthy speech. “When ignorance and bigotry is alive with power, it’s a dangerous force in our country. Your silence and your amnesia is complicity.”
Booker read off a list of recent hate crimes committed by white supremacists, including the church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina and the white nationalist riots that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“Tens of millions of Americans are hurting right now because of what they’re worried about what happened in this White House,” he said. “That is unacceptable.”
Nielsen eventually replied saying, “I do clearly—and I want to be clear on this—abhor violence in all of its forms. I couldn’t agree with you more that the Department of Homeland Security has a duty to stop and prevent violence in all of its forms.”
