Alabama Democratic Party vice chairwoman Tabitha Isner blasted former President Trump for how he reacted to his guilty verdict in New York and criticized Republicans for continuing to back him.
Isner took to Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” to condemn Trump, Alabama’s Attorney General, and the Republican party as a whole.
‘[I]n the sense that the Republican Party has become a party of victimhood,” Isner argued. “Republicans love to cry victim and that’s a fascinating phenomenon to watch. Donald Trump loves to be the center of attention…Trump’s a crybaby, nothing that ever happens is his fault. When things don’t go his way. He he always blames someone else.”
Isner thinks that the GOP is too willing to follow Trump no matter what he does.
“[H]e has said out loud, ‘I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and the Republicans would still back me,’ and I think he’s right about that,” Isner explained. “So I’m concerned about the future of the Republican Party. Now let me be clear, I’m a Democrat. I would much prefer Democrats to be winning. But I like to live in a two party system where both parties are functional. And I’m very concerned that the Republican Party has become the party just of Donald J. Trump and his victimhood.”
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In response to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall recently going to New York to criticize the trial against the former president, Isner said he should be working on more important things for Alabamians.
“Attorney General Steve Marshall went to New York to be there for Donald Trump during the trial, to support him to stand by him to get his picture taken with the President,” Isner continued. “Meanwhile, back in Alabama, there’s child labor being used at auto manufacturing plants here in the state, and Attorney General Steve Marshall is too busy traveling to New York to do anything about it. There is a coal mine, where a man was killed and his grandson nearly killed when their home exploded above a coal mine in Alabama. Attorney General Steve Marshall could be looking into that but he’s too busy paying attention to Donald Trump. And the list goes on and on and on of the things that we could be talking about and getting done.”
Isner also blamed Republicans for being unwilling to work with Democrats to solve the illegal immigration crisis.
“Let’s solve the problem at the border. Let’s solve it,” she said. “We wanted to via congressional action, but Donald Trump didn’t want to solve the problem because he wanted to be able to keep all the cameras on him while he talked about the problem. He enjoys talking about problems. He doesn’t enjoy finding solutions.”
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee
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