Senior Adviser for the U.S. Agency for Global Media Kari Lake ripped into Democrat Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar to his face Wednesday on British journalist Piers Morgan’s show over his push to impeach President Donald Trump.
Thanedar, elected to Congress in 2023, introduced articles of impeachment Monday against Trump, accusing the president of abusing executive and trade powers and defying Congress by allegedly removing its power of the purse. While debating his stance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Lake called out the Democrat representative, saying his party’s fixation on Trump proves they have “no play.”
“First of all, where did this guy come from? With all due respect, this is an idiotic thing to do. It’s proving that the Democrat Party has no play. They don’t know what to do right now because Trump is winning on everything,” Lake said. “He’s strategizing how to fix the economy that Joe Biden drove not only into a ditch but off a cliff. This is why the American people were suffering.”
“It sounds to me like this is a political move to try to put him in good graces with the AOC crowd and the very, very far left radical crowd ahead of another election,” Lake added. “This is ridiculous. The American people were sick of the previous attempts of impeaching President Trump before. They don’t want to see this again.”
Democrats have ramped up their pushback of Trump since March, focusing on the administration’s efforts to shut down the southern border and conduct mass deportations of illegal migrants. Thanedar, in his impeachment push, cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s April 10 ruling, which ordered the administration to aid in facilitating the return of illegal migrant Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s mega-prison after his March deportation. (RELATED: ABC News’ Terry Moran Challenges Trump To ‘Pick’ Up Phone And Order Alleged Gangbanger Returned)
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Lake went on to say she felt embarrassed for Thanedar.
“I’m embarrassed for this gentleman. I’m embarrassed for that congressman that he’s doing that, that he’s fallen to that level to try to impeach President Trump in his first 100 days as he tries to save us from the serious missteps of Joe Biden and that administration that almost broke the backs of every American in this country,” Lake said.
“What about the fentanyl that’s no longer pouring across the border? What about the lives that are saved there? What about a president who’s trying to end a war that’s killing thousands, tens of thousands of people and costing all kinds of our treasure over in Ukraine? What about that?” Lake asked. “No. He’s trying to concentrate on something to make people all of a sudden know who he is so that he can raise money and run for reelection. I find it despicable.”
During the four-year Biden-Harris administration, an estimated 11 million border encounters took place, with daily averages peaking at 15,000. Officials like former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre attempted to blame congressional Republicans. Voters quickly made the crisis a top concern heading into November.
According to a White House 100-day fact sheet shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation, Trump’s second administration has seen daily border encounters drop by 93% and migrant crossings fall by 99.99%.
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