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Schumer calls Texas governor an ‘absolute fraud’
The Hill ^ | 05/26/22 12:49 PM ET| | BY MONIQUE BEALS

Posted on 05/27/2022 12:54:46 AM PDT by RandFan

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) an “absolute fraud” in remarks from the Senate floor regarding the governor’s response to this week’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school.

“Yesterday, after Beto O’Rourke confronted Texas Gov. Abbott’s press conference, the MAGA governor gave some empty platitudes about healing and hope,” Schumer said Thursday, referencing former President Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.”

“He asked people to put their agendas aside and think about someone other than themselves. My God. How dare he. What an absolute fraud the governor of Texas is,” the majority leader said, noting that Abbott was scheduled to speak at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) upcoming convention in Houston.

After the shooting, Abbott held a press conference during which O’Rourke, his Democratic gubernatorial opponent, interrupted him.

“You are doing nothing,” O’Rourke told Abbott. “You said this was not predictable, this was totally predictable, and you choose not to do anything.”

O’Rourke was later escorted out of the auditorium where the press conference was taking place.

“Gov. Abbott, will you ask your MAGA buddies and your NRA pals to put aside their agendas and think of someone other than themselves, like you asked the families to do? … Of course not,” Schumer added on Thursday, saying Abbott was “more likely to outline some new plan to further loosen gun restrictions.”

“No amount of bloodshed seems to be enough for MAGA Republicans. This nation is enraged as well as being exhausted,” he said.

Tuesday’s shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, left 19 children and two adults dead, the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: chuckschumer; gregabbott; maga
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1 posted on 05/27/2022 12:54:46 AM PDT by RandFan
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He calls him a “MAGA governor”, trying to tie in Trump as well no doubt.

Sickening.


2 posted on 05/27/2022 12:56:49 AM PDT by RandFan (For some reason I'm interested in politics, particularly the U.S. Senate)
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Chuck can go Brandon himself.


3 posted on 05/27/2022 1:07:23 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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Schumer is Meshugge.


4 posted on 05/27/2022 1:11:07 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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“Chuck U.” Schumer calling anyone a fraud is rich. This from an ignorant, arrogant, incompetent knothead who couldn’t find his @$$hole with both hands and a funnel.


5 posted on 05/27/2022 1:13:15 AM PDT by twister881
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When it comes to Make America Great Again, I’m all in, and I can’t even understand anyone who is not.#UltraMAGA pic.twitter.com/6KyTP7ftus— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) May 7, 2022


6 posted on 05/27/2022 1:38:52 AM PDT by conservative98
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Maybe we should put forward vouchers to supplement gun purchases. Make the Schumers of the world have to pay to arm citizens.


7 posted on 05/27/2022 1:42:46 AM PDT by Dragonspirit (CNN is the enemy. Ashli Babbitt is the hero.)
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I watched this guy on a Waco documentary video on the hearings. He was an Awh0le then, and he is an Awh0le now. Why people like him are allowed to stay in power for so long is an indication there is something seriously wrong going on in this country.


8 posted on 05/27/2022 1:43:04 AM PDT by sumuam
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Schumer knows all about being a fraud.


9 posted on 05/27/2022 1:47:39 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Fai Mao

democrats prove every day they are our enemy, not the russians or the chinese.


10 posted on 05/27/2022 1:51:26 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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Take the subway without a bodyguard, twerp.


11 posted on 05/27/2022 1:55:28 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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How is Chuck E Cheese calling anyone a fraud?


12 posted on 05/27/2022 1:58:11 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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That’s not a bad thing.

I’d be worried if Upchuckie Schumer was singing my praises, not by lame attempts to slam me.


13 posted on 05/27/2022 2:00:00 AM PDT by markomalley (Directive 10-289 is in force)
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The dangerous part is that most people in the U.S. who don’t think outside the box they’re put in everyday, will think Chuck Schumer is right. They actually vote, and it’s been going on for decades.


14 posted on 05/27/2022 2:09:11 AM PDT by sumuam
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More of that “unity” thing coming from the dems.

There is no coexisting with these foul people…. None whatsoever.


15 posted on 05/27/2022 2:20:58 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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Its OK. I’d call Schumer an absolute scumbag.


16 posted on 05/27/2022 2:37:06 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Just when you’re sure Schumer can’t possibly out-do himself.....he does.


17 posted on 05/27/2022 2:39:02 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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Oh gee, don’t you just love it with him lecturing to the rest of us, particularly in the wake of what happened in Buffalo? And also more so when the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop is now fully confirmed? Maybe I’ll listen when darling Amy asks for the armed security at the Oscars to no longer be required.


18 posted on 05/27/2022 2:42:42 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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Schumer dancing to the same old recording of “Projection”.


19 posted on 05/27/2022 2:44:56 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (The only good Democrat is one that remains dead. )
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Gee, ChuckU, when your “Senate” gets us the TRUTH about how this killer knew to use THAT UNLOCKED DOOR, how he got a $60G truck and $5Gs in tactical gear, and why the “police” waited 40 minutes to neutralize the KILLER, then you can criticize anyone. But that will never happen. In fact, your Goons will try to obscure the truth and continue yours and the rest of the Demoncrats goal of disarming Citizens. Ain't gonna happen ChuckU.
20 posted on 05/27/2022 2:45:23 AM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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