Booker: On the National Stage, Trump ‘Took the Side of the Attacker’ of the U.S.

Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said President Donald Trump is taking the side of the “attacker,” when he qualifies the intelligence assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections by saying it “could be other people also.”

Booker said, “It is absolutely contradicting the intelligence community again. He basically threw them under the bus yet again. There’s been a conclusion, a consensus of the intelligence community, a consensus of the Senate intelligence committee in a bipartisan fashion of the Russians attacking us. So for him to say it could be this person, that person is him undermining us, undermining our safety.”

When asked if members of the Trump administration should resign, Booker said, “I’m hoping people are going to look at this in the long shadow of history. I guarantee you there will be generations to come that will be talking about this moment in history. The first time —you can go back to World War II, World War I — where a president has stood on the national stage and took the side of the attacker of the United States as opposed to the side of the American people. And so where do you want to stand with that?”

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