Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand calls Donald Trump coward

New York: Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, speaking outside a Trump-branded high-rise in Manhattan, launched an attack on President Donald Trump, calling him a “coward” and the building bearing his name “a shrine to greed, division and vanity”. The speech by the New York Senator on Sunday, part of what her campaign billed as the official kick-off of her 2020 presidential bid that has unofficially been underway since January, appeared to be a calculated effort to elevate a candidate who has so far struggled for traction and attention in a crowded Democratic field, The New York Times said.

In a 30-minute speech, Gillibrand said: “It is not often that I agree with (former President) Richard Nixon, but he was right to say that the American people have a right to know whether their president is a crook.” “He does this because he wants you to believe he’s strong... He is not. Our President is a coward.”

The Senator with Indian and Jamaican descent, for her part, was campaigning in Houston, the home state of former Representative Beto O’Rourke, at a rally that drew several thousand. (IANS)

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