Jen Psaki Mocks Chuck Schumer’s ‘Very Strong’ Letter to Trump: ‘If That’s Not Going To Make You Shake In Your Boots…’
Jen Psaki joined Stephen Colbert in mocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) “very strong letter” to President Donald Trump about his attacks on Harvard.
Psaki, a former White House press secretary and now an MSNBC host, joined Colbert on The Late Show on Wednesday to promote her new book Say More. When Colbert asked about the Democratic Party’s current “communication” problems, Psaki accused her party of relying on “old tactics.”
“But Chuck Schumer, he wrote a very strong letter,” Colbert sarcastically objected.
“With eight strongly worded questions,” Psaki added. “You left out that part.”
“What more can you ask of a leader?” Colbert asked.
“If that’s not going to make you shake in your boots, I don’t know what it is,” Psaki said.
Schumer told CNN’s Dana Bash this week that he sent a “very strong letter” to Trump about freezing Harvard’s federal funding. Trump has called for broad reforms at the university and accused them of not doing enough to curb antisemitism on campus.
“A bunch of us Jewish senators just sent a letter to the administration saying, detail the specific incidents of antisemitism and why cutting money off to cancer research or to Alzheimer’s research has anything to do with antisemitism. It doesn’t,” Schumer told CNN. “So we sent him a very strong letter just the other day asking eight very strong questions about why this isn’t just a pretext.”
Psaki was not impressed with Schumer, but she did offer praise to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D), who went after “do nothing” Democrats this week.
“It was incredibly powerful and strong. The message he was sending was, ‘I’m a fighter, I’m going to say the things, I’m gonna call out the do nothing Democrats,’ his words, not my words. He’s going to call out what he’s seeing in the Trump administration,” she said.
The former press secretary added she hopes more Democrats take action and join “the fighting side.”
“Go lead a protest. Go to a red state. Go hold a town hall. Go to El Salvador, whatever it may be. Do stuff. People want to know you’re fighting and doing things,” she said. “If Democrats are going to rely on the tactics of old, they will lose.”
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