WASHINGTON — Incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer outlined an aggressive legislative posture toward President Trump following Democrats’ landslide midterm election victory — calling him “corrupt” and a “wannabe king” who risks “legislative razor wire.”
“If they [Republicans] continue to embrace Trump, they’re going to be following him right over the cliff, as this election has shown, and it’ll get even worse for them,” the New York Democrat said Wednesday after Democrats gained at least seven seats in the upper chamber.
“Trump is the most corrupt president in American history. No American should have to make trade-offs at the supermarket while Trump is making insider trades on the stock market,” Schumer charged — giving short shrift to the president’s musings about bipartisan deals.
“The days of Trump’s supplicant Senate are over!” he declared.
Schumer vowed to end the war in Iran and pass affordability-focused legislation with or without buy-in from the White House.
“The American people don’t know what the heck we’re fighting for in Iran. He’s never made it clear he changes his mind day to day and minute to minute. This war must end. It must end,” he said.
“And make no mistake: whenever Trump defies the will of the American people or the law, we will launch investigations, take him to court, and entangle him in legislative razor wire.”
The top Democrat thundered that “elections have always been the strongest lever Americans have to counter a wannabe king. So long as Americans are willing to use it. Yesterday, America did.”
“We are going to end the war,” he went on, shortly after Vice President JD Vance blamed the conflict for the staggering political sea change.
“We have some Republicans already who have joined us in ending the war, and the founding fathers had the power of the purse as one of the ways of deterring a president who does war without the consent of the American people.”
Schumer swatted down reporter attempts to ask questions, adding: “We are going to work hard to drive costs down with the president or without him. Period.”
