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Rosario dawson cory booker1/13/2024 “To cut funding to investigate these domestic terrorist groups, these white supremacist groups, is making us less safe,” Booker added. I know that’s going to come out,” Booker said, before talking about the “larger context where hate crimes in this country are on a rise, where white supremacist violence is on the rise.” “I don’t know all the details in the prosecutor’s decision. Booker, who initially likened the Smollett incident to lynching, dodged the question. The answer came in response to a question about actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a hate crime against himself before all the charges were dropped on Tuesday. Cory Booker on Wednesday said President Donald Trump is “complicit” in the rise of white supremacist violence, slamming the Republican president for failing “to condemn Nazis or even to talk about white supremacy as a problem in this country.” “I don’t need to wait to be president,” Booker said, “to fight for the rights of my brothers and sisters in this country.” “We need to be a nation that protects all of its residents.”īooker also touted his co-sponsorship of the Equality Act, which would ban discrimination against LGBTQ Americans, who - as he said on Wednesday- “can post on about their gay marriage on their website, the next day when they go to work, they can be fired just because they’re gay, with no legal recourse whatsoever.” “We now live in a country where 30% of LGBTQ kids report not going to school because of fear. “I will unite this country in the fight to make sure that LGBTQ Americans, all Americans, have justice and equality under the law.”īooker also took aim at Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her efforts to “gut” her department’s civil rights division. “Then I will take on the larger fight of uniting this country like we did it for civil rights, for workers’ rights, for women’s rights,” Booker said. That process, he said, begins with reversing Trump’s decision to ban “transgender patriots” from serving in the military. Cory Booker on Wednesday said the Trump administration has dealt a series of harrowing blows to LGBTQ rights, but that he has a plan to turn the tide if he’s elected in 2020. “If I am President of the United States, I will fight every day to put more indivisible into this one nation under God,” Booker said to applause. We were formed on the ideal that many of us in our diversity can come together and create one strong whole. “One of the best sights I’ve ever saw was a bunch of Jewish Americans… cheering and dancing as Muslim countries came into this community,” he added.īooker also called for unity: “We are the United States of America. Reflecting on President Donald Trump’s travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries, Booker said: “I remember running out to the airport, where I saw the whole concourse full of Americans yelling and chanting and singing patriotic slogans as people came into this country, like Abraham welcoming strangers in the desert.” To be tough, you don’t need to be mean.”īooker also called out the US immigration system for “ not only American values but the values of our faith traditions.” The New Jersey senator later explained the importance of “radical love” in guiding his faith, noting how “to be strong, you don’t need to be cruel. That would be like our Royal Wedding.“I would rather hang out with a nice Atheist than a mean Christian any day of the week.” "If you go in single, and then you have a wedding in the White House - I mean, we would watch. “She’s just a deeply soulful person and has taught me a lot of lessons about love already, and sometimes you show the greatest strength when you make yourself vulnerable.”īut the glow doesn't end there, he adds, “She really has this nurturing spirit that’s made me more courageous, not just in the love that I project and want to see in our country, but even in our personal relationships, to love more fearlessly."Įllen then tries to convince Booker to hold off on the wedding until 2021, so he can have the wedding at the White House. She’s just an incredible human being.”Īs DeGeneres discusses the difficulty of their relationship now being brought under a microscope, the presidential hopeful acknowledged the difficulties, but says she inspires him. I suddenly get this little video from her that ‘I got TMZ’d.’”īut the senator notes that her confirmation of their relationship “was wonderful. He adds, “She was visiting me in D.C., and she left for the airport, and she got ambushed at the airport. Cory Booker officially joins the 2020 presidential race Senator, presidential hopeful Cory Booker takes U.S. DeGeneres notes that the two were trying to keep the relationship private, but Booker says, “She got TMZ’d.” Dawson confirmed the two were dating earlier this week on Monday.
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