Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claimed that President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to invade other foreign territories are meant to distract from his embattled cabinet nominees.
Recently, Trump has not ruled out using military or economic force to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal. The president-elect has also referred to Canada as America’s 51st state in recent social media posts.
During a Wednesday interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper, Warren suggested that Trump’s recent threats of invasion are meant to distract the media from his embattled nominees, including Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard:
The United States respects international law. We respect the boundaries of other countries. We expect other countries to respect our boundaries. Vladimir Putin with Russia did not do that and invaded Ukraine and we have pushed back hard against that. That is world order. That’s international law. But I want to make a second point, and that is why is Donald Trump doing this? And I think the answer is let’s have a big distraction and several more questions so we don’t spend more time on Pete Hegseth, the nominee to be the head of the Department of Defense.So we don’t spend more time on Tulsi Gabbard, who has been in the pocket of Putin and is not someone who should be trusted with our secrets so that we don’t spend more time on Robert Kennedy’s
views on vaccines. In other words, we have a job in front of us right now, and that is advise and consent on the nominees who are there to run our government. Donald Trump would love it if we spend no time talking about this and all of our time talking about this idea and that idea and something else.
Watch the clip above via CNN.