Gillibrand, who is one of a number of Democratic 2020 hopefuls, blamed Trump for helping to spread hatred and bigotry in the U.S.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has launched a scathing attack against Donald Trump, saying what he has done to the country is one of the reasons why she decided to run for president.
The audience member asks what the candidate will do about white nationalism and whether she will revoke the Muslim ban, adding the recent mass shooting at the mosques in New Zealand means their place of solitude and sanctuary has now been compromised. “Donald Trump did not create hate and racism and bigotry and anti-Semitism, but what he has done is poured fuel on a fire that is raging more than I’ve ever seen it in my lifetime. Hate crimes have gone up exponentially all across my state, all cross the country, all because of what President Trump has unleashed.
“The truth is we miss him and people loved him, but he had eight credible allegations against him of sexual harassment for groping, two of them since he was a senator and the eighth one was a congressional staffer,” she said, reported Fox News. “I had a choice to make whether to stay silent or not, whether to say, ‘That’s not OK with me,’ and I decided to say that.”
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