On Sunday’s State of the Union, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ answer to Trump’s threatened military crackdown on Chicago was a canned, consultant-crafted set of talking points that did nothing to convey the urgency of the moment.
In response to Dana Bash’s question about Trump’s threat, Jeffries ran through reasons why Trump is unpopular, as if saying that will turn off the march toward fascism.
And we should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he’s deeply unpopular. Here is the transcript to his full answer, which would have been an fine, bland response to something like Republicans defunding local police.
The one big ugly bill is deeply unpopular.
Ripping health care away from millions of Americans is unpopular.
Enacting tax breaks for their billionaire donors is deeply unpopular and that’s why a lot of this is taking place Donna.
You think it’s manufactured that Americans even likely in the city of Chicago are worried about crime?
Of course people are going to be worried about public safety all across America.
I represent a community that for decades has had to deal with the crack cocaine epidemic, the failed war on drugs, gun shots going off at different points in time in communities.
