“I can’t think of a more shameful display by a president of the United States in my lifetime.”
Washington D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) blasted President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s disastrous Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Read the full transcript below:
So, I literally just got off the plane and of course read all the clips about what just took place in the Oval Office.
I can’t think of a more shameful display by a president of the United States in my lifetime. And when I think about all that the Greatest Generation did, the values that it fought for, when I think of what the country has stood for since, how we have defended democracy around the world, how we have come to the aid of our allies and friends—To see that all so shamefully betrayed is just heartbreaking.
What will it take to wake the conscience of this country?
Is this now what America is? We are reduced to some kind of extortionary protectionist racket, where a leader of a country whose citizens have fought and died valiantly standing up to a Kremlin dictator is so abused, where we stand for nothing but using our might to extort the weak or the vulnerable?
Is this where we are right now? Because this is what we witnessed in the Oval Office today.
Decades of hard work and sacrifice by our parents and grandparents, all to be betrayed in such a tawdry fashion.
If the president of the United States won’t defend American allies and friends and interests, then the Congress needs to step up and do our damn job.
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