President-elect Donald Trump’s talk of expanding the United States is a distraction from his Cabinet picks and major White House appointments, said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
“I’m going to do this one on two levels. The first one is the United States respects international law. We respect the boundaries of other countries,” Warren told CNN Wednesday when asked about Trump’s statement that he couldn’t assure the world that he wouldn’t use military force or economic coercion to assume control of Greenland or the Panama Canal.
“But I want to make a second point, and that is: Why is Donald Trump doing this?” Warren added. “And I think the answer is, let’s have a big distraction and several more questions so we don’t spend more time on Pete Hegseth, the nominee to head the Department of Defense, so we don’t spend more time on Tulsi Gabbard, who has been in the pocket of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and is not someone to be trusted with our secrets, so that we don’t spend more time on Robert Kennedy [Jr.]’s views on vaccines.”
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