Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” on Wednesday that Republicans are caught up in a “revenge obsession” over the conviction of former President Donald Trump in the New York business documents trial.
“This obsession with revenge is really disturbing,” Warren said. “I understand these are people who have sworn allegiance to Donald Trump, not to the Constitution. They’ve sworn allegiance to this one man, not to the people. They’re going to suck up and do whatever he wants.”
She continued, “It’s wrong to use our justice system for retaliation. There is absolutely no evidence that the 34 felony convictions against Donald Trump had anything to do with political retaliation. And yet Republicans have decided in this fever pitch that the only way to explain it is that their candidate is a convicted felon — can I say that again? A convicted felon who said from day one that he wants to be a dictator. The only way to explain it is to be preemptive, and they’re planning retaliation and somehow they think it’s going to flow back into what happened in a New York court.”
Warren added, “What Republicans want is to use government to serve Donald Trump and themselves, and that is a threat to our democracy.”
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