康涅狄格州民主党参议员克里斯·墨菲(Chris Murphy)周日在接受美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)“本周”采访时警告说，在总统的领导下，“宪法受到了攻击”唐纳德·特朗普.
墨菲说:“我认为这是自水门事件以来，美国面临的最严重的宪法危机。”。"总统为了腐败的目的，正试图夺取政权。"
指出特朗普政府改革联邦政府的努力，包括通过冻结外国援助项目在美国国际开发署(USAID)的领导下，墨菲表示，美国正处于“红色警报时刻”，并认为特朗普正在迎来“亿万富翁接管政府”。
特朗普和新政府效率部的亿万富翁领袖埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)呼吁关闭美国国际开发署(USAID)，特朗普也是如此在社交媒体上发帖，“关了它!”
墨菲说:“总统希望能够决定如何和在哪里花钱，这样他就可以奖励他的政治朋友，惩罚他的政治敌人。”"这是民主的精髓所在。"
“你站在对政治暴力的大规模认可旁边，赦免了1月6日的每一个暴徒——包括用棒球棒殴打警察头部的最暴力的人——你可以看到他在这里试图做什么，”墨菲继续说。“他试图通过让他们害怕失去联邦资金，通过让他们害怕身体暴力来摧毁他的反对派。”
墨菲指责马斯克的动机是为了促进自己的商业利益而关闭美国国际开发署。
“这让美国在全球变得不那么安全，但却帮助了中国。美国国际开发署是中国政府的眼中钉，”墨菲说。“埃隆·马斯克在北京有许多重要的商业利益，因此让北京高兴将会给埃隆·马斯克和许多将工作外包给中国的亿万富翁带来经济利益。”
墨菲说，这相当于“为了服务亿万富翁阶层而对宪法的攻击”，需要“全面反对”。
“你不能只依靠法院，”他说。“最终，你必须让美国公众参与到这场对话中来，因为我们需要我们在众议院和参议院的共和党同事最终阻止这种情况。当对宪法和亿万富翁收购的挑战如此尖锐和紧迫时，你不能仅仅依靠法院系统。”
墨菲还回击了宾夕法尼亚州民主党参议员约翰·费特曼，他上周在冰球播客“有人必须赢”上说，民主党人需要缓和他们的言辞，称如果民主党人“继续大喊大叫”并使用“最严厉的语言”，美国人“不会注意到”
“我不同意。我不会冷静下来，”墨菲说。“这是一种根本性的腐败，民主不会永远持续下去，那些试图摧毁民主的人想要的是每个人都保持安静，让每个人都相信这一时刻并不紧迫。”
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy warns of Trump's 'assault on the Constitution'
In an interview on ABC News' "This Week" on Sunday, Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy warned of an "assault on the Constitution" under PresidentDonald Trump.
"I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate," Murphy said. "The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes."
Pointing to the Trump administration's efforts to overhaul the federal government, including byfreezing foreign aid programsunder the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Murphy said the country is in the midst of a "red-alert moment" and argued that Trump is ushering in "the billionaire takeover of government."
Trump and Elon Musk, the billionaire leader of the new Department of Government Efficiency, have called for a shuttering of USAID, with Trumpposting on social media, "CLOSE IT DOWN!"
"The president wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can reward his political friends, he can punish his political enemies," Murphy said. "That is the evisceration of democracy."
"You stand that next to the wholesale endorsement of political violence with the pardons given to every single Jan. 6 rioter -- including the most violent, who beat police officers over the head with baseball bats -- and you can see what he's trying to do here," Murphy continued. "He is trying to crush his opposition by making them afraid of losing federal funding, by making them afraid of physical violence."
Murphy accused Musk of being motivated to shutter USAID in order to promote his own business interests.
"It makes America much less safe around the world, but it helps China. USAID is a thorn in the side of the Chinese government," Murphy said. "Elon Musk has many major business interests at stake inside Beijing, and so making Beijing happy is going to accrue to the financial benefit of Elon Musk and many billionaires who outsource work to China."
Murphy said it amounted to an "assault on the Constitution in order to serve the billionaire class" that will require "full scale opposition."
"You can't just rely on the courts," he said. "Ultimately, you've got to bring the American public into this conversation, because we need our Republican colleagues in the House and in the Senate, ultimately, to put a stop to this. You cannot just rely on the court system when the challenge to the Constitution and the billionaire takeover is so acute and so urgent."
Murphy also pushed back against Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, who said on the Puck podcast "Somebody's Gotta Win" last week that Democrats need to tone down their rhetoric, saying Americans are "not going to pay attention" if Democrats "keep yelling" and using "the most severe kinds of language."
"I don't agree. I'm not going to calm down," Murphy said. "This is a fundamental corruption, and democracies don't last forever, and what those who are trying to destroy democracies want is for everyone to stay quiet, for everyone to believe that the moment isn't urgent."
