Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) reacted to President Donald Trump criticizing her during his CPAC speech over the weekend.
Hirono said, “When the president goes off-script which he is proud to do because that seems to really gin up his base he just gets it a lot of things wrong. I found his criticism of me and The Green New Deal totally incoherent, but that’s also par for the course. We talked about impeachment earlier, and I said that we don’t need to make the president a martyr so we should proceed with caution.”
She continued, “What’s going to happen is that I hope that it’s the voters that will finally figure out that this is not the person who is protecting our security interests or anything else for that matter. What he cares about is himself and money. That’s not the kind of president we want. And when the election happens, I hope that he will be voted out. That’s how we’re going to see the end of Trump.”
She added, “I think all of the damage that he’s caused by evoking people’s fears and animosities toward immigrants, toward women toward the LGBTQ communities, all of that, that’s not going to go away any time soon. So we’ll have to work all together to bring the country back together because he is very busy continuing to tear this country apart.”
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