Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand calls on President Trump to resign amid credible sexual assault allegations

[oberliner]

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Monday urged President Trump to step down over the "credible" and "numerous" allegations of sexual harassment against him, joining a fellow Democratic senator who made a similar plea on Sunday.

If Trump refuses to resign, Gillibrand told CNN that Congress should launch a sweeping investigation into the President, who stands accused of sexually harassing or assaulting nearly two dozen women.

"I've heard these women's testimony and many of them are heartbreaking," Gillibrand said. "Whether (Trump) will ever hold himself accountable is something you really can't hold your breath for so Congress should have hearings."

On Sunday, Gillibrand's Democratic colleague, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, similarly urged Trump to resign while campaigning for Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate fending off against accused child molester Roy Moore in Alabama's highly-publicized Senate election.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-resign-sexual-assault-claims-sen-gillibrand-article-1.3691904

[Dorian Gray]

1. Obviously this will never happen

But it's probably why she (and others) pushed for Franken to resign. So they wouldn't be seen as hypocrites. (Even though it's different.)

[LisaL]

2. So they got Franken to resign (which they did) so they can make an empty

request for Trump to resign. Empty because obviously he won't.
What a great idea.

[Dorian Gray]

3. Right...

I'm not defending it. Just expressing it's their reasoning.

[oberliner]

10. Probably not - but good to take this stand

As several senators are doing.

[SFnomad]

4. The lynch mob around here was calling for Gillibrand to do exactly this

So now that's she's doing it, I expect to hear everyone around here giving her credit for it.

[Thor_MN]

6. She did it after receiving blowback for lynching Franken. She's had a year to go after Trump.

Only after negative feedback did she call for Trump to resign. So now that she is doing it, I expect the lynch mob against Franken that she enabled to spend hours and hundred of posts going after Trump.


You will forgive me if I don't hold my breath...

[cwydro]

9. Yes, exactly. nt

[OnDoutside]

15. +1000

[ollie10]

7. It was a lynch mob alright.....Gillibrand led it against Franken

When good Democrats noticed that all this time Gillibrand had never ever called for Trump to resign, she....er.....obliged.

[Demsrule86]

8. No, we lose a sitting Senator possibly a seat for empty threats...no does't fix it and I never

called on Sen. Gillibrand to do this...it just doesn't matter to me. I would vote for any Democrat in a general, but in the 2020 primary, then I get to choose who I think can best represent us.

[Fullduplexxx]

5. Lol. Is this why she went after franken

[MrsMatt]

11. Everyone loves a bandwagon. n/t

[stonecutter357]

13. time to primary Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

I wish Hillary would take her seat back..

[oberliner]

16. Huh?

What the heck are you talking about?

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. And KG's Rent-A-Mob franchise bumbles along...