Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, speaking outside a Trump-branded high-rise in Manhattan on Sunday, launched a frontal attack on President Trump, calling him a “coward” and the building bearing his name “a shrine to greed, division and vanity.”The speech by Ms. Gillibrand, part of what her campaign billed as the official kickoff of a 2020 bid that has unofficially been underway since January, appeared to be a calculated effort to elevate a candidate who has so far struggled for traction and attention in a crowded Democratic field. [Make sense of the people, issues and ideas shaping American politics with our newsletter.] In a 30-minute speech, Ms. Gillibrand called for the full report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to be made public, saying, “Not even the president is above the law.”

Source: New York Times March 24, 2019 21:32 UTC