Eric Holder Hits Trump: 'Make America Great' Mindset Is 'Rooted In Fear'
- 6 years ago
Eric Holder slammed President Trump during a speech on Saturday.
Eric Holder, who served as attorney general under former President Barack Obama, went after President Trump's 'Make America Great Again' slogan at the Human Rights Campaign's annual dinner event on Saturday.
"This 'Make America Great' mindset is not only flawed, it's rooted in fear, and it favors an imagined past over a realistic future," Holder said.
"If one looks at the story of America and ignores historic deficiencies or forgets the people denied rights to which all Americans are entitled, then the past can be for some, for a minority, a comforting place," Holder continued.
"But that mindset betrays a lack of courage," Holder added. "It speaks to a fear of the future, which by its nature is always uncertain and this is antithetical to who we are as a people. We have always embraced the possibility of the future and not the comfort of the past."
Holder and Trump have frequently traded barbs.
Frustrated with his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, Trump tweeted a quote from Lou Dobbs on Tuesday: "'ERIC Holder could be running the Justice Department right now and it would be behaving no differently than it is.'"
Eric Holder, who served as attorney general under former President Barack Obama, went after President Trump's 'Make America Great Again' slogan at the Human Rights Campaign's annual dinner event on Saturday.
"This 'Make America Great' mindset is not only flawed, it's rooted in fear, and it favors an imagined past over a realistic future," Holder said.
"If one looks at the story of America and ignores historic deficiencies or forgets the people denied rights to which all Americans are entitled, then the past can be for some, for a minority, a comforting place," Holder continued.
"But that mindset betrays a lack of courage," Holder added. "It speaks to a fear of the future, which by its nature is always uncertain and this is antithetical to who we are as a people. We have always embraced the possibility of the future and not the comfort of the past."
Holder and Trump have frequently traded barbs.
Frustrated with his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, Trump tweeted a quote from Lou Dobbs on Tuesday: "'ERIC Holder could be running the Justice Department right now and it would be behaving no differently than it is.'"