Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy warns of 'assault on the Constitution'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

February 9, 2025, 12:00 PM


In an interview on ABC News' "This Week" on Sunday, Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy warned of an "assault on the Constitution" under President Donald Trump. "I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate," Murphy said. "The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes."

Pointing to the Trump administration's efforts to overhaul the federal government, including by freezing foreign aid programs under the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Murphy said the country is in the midst of a "red-alert moment" and argued that Trump is ushering in "the billionaire takeover of government."

Trump and Elon Musk, the billionaire leader of the new Department of Government Efficiency, have called for a shuttering of USAID, with Trump posting on social media, "CLOSE IT DOWN!"

"The president wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can reward his political friends, he can punish his political enemies," Murphy said. "That is the evisceration of democracy." "You stand that next to the wholesale endorsement of political violence with the pardons given to every single Jan. 6 rioter -- including the most violent, who beat police officers over the head with baseball bats -- and you can see what he's trying to do here," Murphy continued. "He is trying to crush his opposition by making them afraid of losing federal funding, by making them afraid of physical violence."

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[JohnSJ]

1. Wonder how long it will take ABC to remove that interview and apologize to the sociopath.

[Evolve Dammit]

2. Not sure it's sarcasm at this point

[JohnSJ]

3. Very true.

[creeksneakers2]

4. Here's what VP Vance posted on Twitter very recently

"If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.
If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.
Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power. "

They've declared themselves about the law. Its time that they start being threatened with having Trump removed under the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause. If Trump won't obey the law he has to be removed/.