Harry Reid blasted Republicans telling them it’s time to “stop the Frankenstein they created.”
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) slammed Republicans for creating Donald Trump during a fiery speech n the Senate floor this Wednesday, saying “It’s time for Republicans to stop the Frankenstein they created.”
Reid appeared on the Senate floor with a huge poster depicting a headline from a recent Washington Post op-ed calling Trump the “GOP’s Frankenstein.”
“[H]ere is something that appeared in The Washington Post headlined ‘Trump is the GOP’s Frankenstein Monster,’” Reid said pointing to the poster. “This was the headline in The Washington Post opinion piece offered by Robert Kagan, a former official of the Reagan State Department who is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute.”
“It’s true. Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s Frankenstein,” Reid said, adding: “Today, the Republican establishment acts like it is surprised by Trump. They feign outrage that a demagogue spewing xenophobia is somehow winning in a party that has spent years telling Latinos and immigrants they are not welcome in America.
Reid also stated that the Republican-led obstruction in Congress set the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump:
“They express shock and outrage that Republican voters cheer Trump’s schoolyard taunts, even as they trounce the most common courtesies extended to every president — even as they deny a fair hearing to a president’s Supreme Court nominee for the first time in history. Republicans shouldn’t be surprised. They spent eight years laying the groundwork for the rise of Trump.”
“It’s time for Republicans to stop the Frankenstein they created,” Reid said, predicting: “If Republicans fail to stop Donald Trump, he will tear their party apart.”
You can watch the speech, below:
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