On MS NOW’s “The Briefing” Thursday, Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said that if Democrats win control of the Senate after the midterm elections, they would have to shut down the Trump administration.
Planter said: “We all understand that Donald Trump is uniquely horrible. Donald Trump really is kind of an avatar of the worst elements of our politics in our society.”
Host Jen Psaki said, “If you’re elected to the Senate, it’s possible, I started the show talking about this, that you could be in the majority. How do you think power should be wielded if Democrats are given that, for people who are just getting to know each other, are you trying to figure yourself out?”
Planter said: “One thing we’re going to have to do if we’re in the majority, we need to use the power that we have to shut down this White House. We do that. I think one of the best ways is through committee hearings and investigations. I want the Trump administration to not work, because everyone in the White House is being subpoenaed before a Senate committee, day after day, not only because one, we have so many crimes to investigate right now. We could probably be doing this for the next 30 years, but two, because it’s a lever of power that uses “The power to subpoena people to be investigated, that keeps them busy and that doesn’t allow them to start another stupid war that doesn’t allow them to continue giving billionaires more and more of our economy. And that’s why I think it’s very important that, if we are the majority, we are going to exercise the power we have to control this.”
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