‘What Has Happened To You?’: Salinas Rails Against GOP For Silence After Trump’s ‘Horrifying’ Remark

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During House floor remarks on Thursday, Rep. Andrea Salinas (D-OR) called out the GOP for their silence on President Trump’s response to a reporter question about upholding the Constitution.

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00:00Mr. Speaker, it has been five days since President Trump told a reporter I don't

00:07know when asked if he had to uphold the Constitution. It has been five days of

00:12silence from my Republican colleagues. I keep waiting to see if a single

00:17Republican will speak up about this and denounce this horrifying remark. My

00:22Republican colleagues, what has happened to you? You know that if Obama or Clinton

00:29or Biden had said such an outrageous thing, you would be tripping over

00:34yourselves to get in front of the cameras. And yet now, in this moment, you say

00:38nothing. You do nothing. I was at the inauguration. I saw all of you. We sat

00:44together and watched the president swear his oath of office to uphold the

00:49Constitution. I am pleading with you. Speak up. Your fear is keeping you

00:58so small. And it is to the detriment of our country and our constitutional

01:04democracy. I yield back.

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