Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha dismissed New York Times columnist Ezra Klein’s claim that President Donald Trump corrupts the country “the way the Mafia would.”
“It’s hard to take [Klein] seriously at this point where he says that Trump’s running the government like the Mafia,” Concha said Tuesday on Fox News’s Fox & Friends First.
“It’s funny, I never heard that during the Biden administration when they literally weaponized the Department of Justice against Donald Trump, tried to take him off ballots in states like Colorado and Maine, and install the candidate without one vote from the public in Kamala Harris.”
Klein implied there’s not a “better plan than a shutdown” during a recent episode of the Ezra Klein Show.
“Donald Trump is corrupting the government. He is using it to hound his enemies, to line his pockets, and to entrench his own power. He’s corrupting it the way the Mafia would corrupt the industries it has controlled,” Klein said.
According to Concha, a government shutdown would do more harm than good.
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“Take two seats, Ezra, if that’s the strategy to shut down the government in order to defeat Trump. That hurts people when you shut down the government,” Concha said. “And that is what this is all about: power, and not making the country better, and Ezra Klein actually supports this.”
The Senate has a deadline to fund the government by Oct. 1.