President Trump believes “winning an election is more important than the integrity of an election,” Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a floor speech Thursday denouncing Trump’s now-viral ABC News interview about accepting Russian opposition research.
“The president’s comments are undemocratic, un-American, disgraceful,” Schumer said.
“The president’s idea that winning the election is everything and the integrity of the election is nothing, is one small step away from dictators and autocrats who manipulate the results of an election because they care more about staying in power than than care about Democratic principles. Donald Trump seems to fall into that category.”
Trump told ABC News in a two-part interview that he wasn’t necessarily opposed to accepting opposition research from a foreign government but might report it to the FBI if he believed “something was wrong.”
