In yet another infuriating incident out of the mainstream media, woke Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with host Kristen Welker on Sunday, December 14, and accused President Donald Trump of corruption and using public chaos and division to hide it. Sen. Warnock did not provide evidence of his shocking claims of presidential corruption.
As a reminder, Sen. Warnock was elected in the chaotic and disastrous 2020 run-off elections in Georgia for both of its senate seats, which came because one seat was up for re-election and former Sen. Johnny Isakson passed away while in office for the other, meaning it had to go up for re-election. While the seat was initially filled by former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, Raphael Warnock ended up winning the runoff election.
So, he is now in office, and is extremely hostile to President Trump. Such came up when he spoke to Kristen Welker and accused President Trump of using the chaos that he is causing to shuttle money to his friends under the radar, an accusation of corruption for which the senator did not provide evidence.
Such came up when NBC host Kristen Welker asked Sen. Warnock about things he has said in the past about Trump and Trumpism. She asked, “You said my faith is not a weapon, my faith is a bridge. You also say, quote, ‘Trumpism is a plague on the American conscience.’ How do you square those two ideas for people?”
Responding, Warnock first responded with a vague comment on division in America, telling Welker, “As I point out, I think over the last several years, over the last 50 years and over the last year we have seen a deepening divide between what people need from their government and what government is delivering.”
Continuing, he got to his claims about “corruption”, claiming that “legalized bribery” is the reason that America doesn’t have socialized healthcare. He said, “There is a kind of corruption, legalized bribery, that exists in our politics, and you see it in basic health care for ordinary citizens. Truly, the wealthiest nation on the planet can afford to provide basic health care to its citizens. We suffer not from a poverty of resources, but a poverty of moral imagination.”
Adding to that, Senator Warnock insisted that President Trump is using chaos to divide Americans while allowing that corruption, saying, “And I do think that Donald Trump, if he’s better at something than anybody else, it’s dividing us. I think it is a distraction, and while we are distracted and divided, we have literally witnessed the largest transfer of wealth in American history from the bottom to the top.”
"*" indicates required fields
Concluding, Warnock doubled down on that claim, bizarrely insisting that inflation is representative of the corruption that the president is supposedly allowing, saying, “People are fighting, and they’re seeing their calls for healthcare are doubling while Congress engages in everyday political games. They’re seeing their utility costs go up, their grocery costs go up, and meanwhile, the president is saying he would rate this economy an A+++. The question is, who is he talking about? His friends, the well-connected and wealthy and certainly not the people.”
Posting on X about the ridiculous claims of the woke senator and how President Trump should respond, many called for President Trump to fire back with a lawsuit over what seems like defamation and libel. One such poster said, “President Donald Trump should sue Raphael Warnock for defamation for the lies he told on NBC during his Meet the Press interview.”
Watch him here:
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video