The Democratic Senator Cory Booker accused US President Donald Trump to attack the nation’s democratic institutions “ruthless” in a marathon speech that the Associated Press set a record on Tuesday after the first start.
The 55-year-old legislator of New Jersey started in a speech that started on Monday at 7 p.m. and continued the night and until Tuesday evening, criticized the Republican President and his most important advisor Elon Musk, the richest person in the world to reduce great swaths of the federal government.
“Our institutions are ruthlessly and unconstitutionally attacked and even destroyed,” said Booker, who was elected in the US Senate for the first time in 2013.
In his first weeks of office, the administration of Trump has published certain weapons from the government, including the US Ministry of Education, to approve the expenditure and asked the authority of the federal courts to restrict its guidelines.
Democratic voters have become angry in the past few weeks because Trump, supported by a congress controlled by Republicans, shaken the long-term US alliances and cut more than 100,000 federal workers. This trouble was based on the Republican legislators and the own leaders of the Democratic Party, including the Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, for the cooperation with the Republicans of the Senate to adopt a law to finance the government that has turned off a partial shutdown.
“Cory Booker is looking for another moment” I’m Spartacus’ moment, but that didn’t work for his failed presidential campaign, and it did not work to block the candidate of the Supreme Court of President Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, “said the deputy press spokesman for the White House, Harrison Fields.
The Democratic Senator of New Jersey Cory Booker broke the record for the longest speech in modern Senate history on Tuesday evening. He exceeded Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957, which lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes.
Language breaks the record of Thurmonds
Booker’s speech broke the record of the Senate for the longest continuous speech, which had previously been held by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond in South Carolina.
In the summer of 1957, Thurmond started a filibuster against civil rights laws that lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes. In the end, Thurmond failed in his mission to block a bill that expanded the federal protection for voting rights for blacks.
Booker’s speech is completed after the 25-hour mark; The Associated Press reported on Tuesday evening that it had set the record for the longest continuous speech in the history of the chamber.
The only breaks that Booker took was when a stream from with Democrats, one to one, came to the ground to ask him a question that allowed him to keep control of his office hours.
On Tuesday afternoon he showed signs of stress. When he dropped a piece of paper from his desk, he looked down and began to bend very slowly and carefully to record it just to be saved by the democratic colleague Michael Bennet from Colorado who jumped to his help.
A uniform topic of Booker’s anger was Musk’s campaign to lower the size and scope of the US government.
