Two-Time gubernatorial loser Stacey Abrams defends ejected Dem rep’s antics during Trump speech

Two-time failed Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams told “CNN News Central” host John Berman Wednesday that Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas “did his job” when he disrupted President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress.

Green was ejected from the House Chamber in the Capitol building after heckling Trump during the speech and disregarding warnings from House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Abrams claimed that Trump was surrounded by “complicit flunkies” and enabled by a “complicit Congress.”

“We have to call out Donald Trump on his lies. We have to point out that an unelected oligarch is doing his best to steal America from its people in Elon Musk,” Abrams claimed. “We have a complicit Congress that is allowing him to fire thousands of people that should be delivering services to Americans and he is now starting trade wars to cover for the fact that he has failed to deliver on his day one promises.”

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“Donald Trump is an early failure and he’s hoping that by attacking folks like me and others that we won’t notice that he has failed and that he has no intention of delivering anything other than retribution,” Abrams continued. “He is a petty tyrant who is surrounded by complicit flunkies and it is the job of Americans to stand up and say ‘We want what we voted for and that is progress for America not petty revenge for Donald Trump.’”

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which Trump established by rebranding the United States Digital Service in a Jan. 20 executive order, has conducted layoffs of federal government employees and identified over $105 billion in savings, according to its website. A non-profit tied to Abrams received $2 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the closing months of the Biden administration.

“In an opposition position, your job is to show people what is true and we have a president who’s doing his best to clamp down on the media, to shut down on protest. He does not want us to use our First Amendment rights,” Abrams claimed. “Let’s not forget who is in power. They control both branches of government and they have appointed the majority of the Supreme Court. If Republicans can’t deliver when they hold all of the power then what they’re telling us is that they’re powerless and it’s up to Americans to take our power back, to take our country back, and to create the future that we deserve.”

Abrams refused to concede the 2018 gubernatorial election she narrowly lost to then-Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp, saying, “concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true, or proper” and that she could not do that, alleging voter suppression. Abrams again lost a gubernatorial rematch to Gov. Kemp of Georgia by over 8% in 2022.

Abrams was among those who labeled the 2021 election integrity law passed in Georgia after the results of the 2020 election were disputed as “Jim Crow 2.0.”

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