Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid released a scathing statement on Friday tearing into President-elect Donald Trump.
“If this is going to be a time of healing, we must first put the responsibility for healing where it belongs: at the feet of Donald Trump,
a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate,” Reid said.
Reid’s statement further declared that
The Nevada senator and former boxer is well known for his willingness to lob political grenades into the national discussion. In late October, the Democrat claimed that the FBI had “explosive information about close ties and coordination” between Trump and the Kremlin. After his comments, CNN reported that the FBI had opened an investigation into ties between Trump aides and the Russians.
Reid, in his final weeks in office, clearly has no interest smoothing a transition to the upcoming Trump administration.
In his Friday statement, Reid accused Trump of demonizing wide swaths of the American public.
“If Trump wants to roll back the tide of hate he unleashed,” Reid concluded, “he has a tremendous amount of work to do and he must begin immediately.”
Yahoo News reached out to Trump’s spokeswoman for comment.
View Reid’s full statement below:
“I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections and I have never seen anything like the reaction to the election completed last Tuesday. The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America.
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