Senator Reid calls Trump ‘Frankenstein Monster

 

US Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has censured the Republican Party in the run-up to the November election, calling the GOP nominee Donald Trump "Frankenstein."

Reid, the Nevada Democrat who has served in the Senate since 1987, made the comments on the Senate floor on Thursday, saying, "Trump is no anomaly. He is the monster the Republicans built. He is their Frankenstein monster. They own him. All you have to do to see that the Republicans are the party of Trump is to look at the way they've treated him."

During his speech, Reid aimed his invective against Republicans, saying, "They are the party of Trump. They say they're not the party of Trump, but they are. They would have us believe that Trump just fell out of the sky and somehow mysteriously became the nominee of the party."

The top Senator from Nevada has repeatedly used the Senate floor as well as weekly press conferences to denounce the New York businessman, suggesting that he is being backed by the Republican Party.

“Racist,” “human leech,” “scammer in chief,” are just to name a few of the insults Reid has used so far in his verbal assaults against Trump.

Reid also took a swipe at his Republican colleagues and said the GOP lawmakers had treated US President Barack Obama with contempt over the past eight years, creating the conditions ripe for the candidacy of Trump.

"History will look back and note that Republicans in Congress treated President Obama with unprecedented disrespect. No one expected them to agree with everything that he did or tried to do, but Americans deserve better than the way Republicans behaved toward President Obama," Reid said.

"Everything, anything that President Obama wanted — they filibustered things they agreed with just to slow things down," he added.

Trump’s campaign has been marred by his disparaging remarks against minorities in the US. His comments include a call to ban all Muslims from coming to America as well as forced deportation of Mexican migrants by building a long wall along the US-Mexico border.

He has also sought a database to track Muslims across the United States and said that the US would have "absolutely no choice" but to close down mosques.

Trump’s proposal has been condemned by Muslim and human rights groups as well as his Democratic rivals and many of his Republican proponents who describe the proposal as divisive, counterproductive and contrary to American values.

This is while an American professor, who has correctly predicted all the last eight presidential elections, says Trump will win the race for the White House.

Allan Lichtman, a distinguished professor of history at American University, told The Washington Post that based on a system he calls "the Keys to the White House", Trump will emerge victorious in the November election.