‘Do you like bullying?’ GOP rep cornered at town hall as crowd shouts ‘Deport Musk!’
Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) became the latest in a long string of GOP representatives this year to face angry questions about Trump from constituents at a town hall on Thursday — and one constituent in particular demanded he answer for the president’s controversial foreign policy moves.
“Do you support the annexation of Canada and/or Greenland?” asked the constituent. “And this is a yes or no question. I don’t want you to wander off into the woods, I don’t want to hear about your latest week in your office … so I’m trying to get your opinion on this as a yes or no. Do you support Trump on annexing Canada or Greenland, and do you like the way he treats the premier or the president of Canada, calling him ‘governor’? Is that the way you’d do as a diplomat? Is that, is that the way the United States should act to our closest neighbors?”
The room erupted in applause.
“Do you enjoy the way he’s tried to extort minerals from the Ukraine?” the constituent added. “Do you like bullying people that need your help? Do you go for kicking the guy when he’s down? Do you support Trump in these things? This is a yes or no.”
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“Let me answer the first one, and then there was one that really stuck out at me that I’d like to also answer,” said Edwards. “I believe that your first question, that you wanted yes or no, is do I support annexing Greenland and Canada? The short answer to that is no, I do not.”
The congressman got a smattering of applause for his response.
“There was another question in there, I think it was, do I support a deal — I’m going to paraphrase a little bit — do I support a deal with Ukraine in obtaining minerals and helping the United States taxpayer recoup the $140 billion or so that we’ve sent over there? The answer is yes, I do support that.”
At this, the crowd grew angry and began shouting.
The questioning came as a large, angry overflow crowd gathered outside, which according to footage posted by retired Air Force veteran and former Democratic congressional candidate Moe Davis, began chanting “Deport Musk!”
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