'A convicted felon and a liar': Dem spits fire at C-SPAN host believing Trump's promises

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) disagreed with C-SPAN host Mimi Geerges after she repeated campaign promises from President Donald Trump, who the lawmaker called "a convicted felon and a liar."

During a Wednesday interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal program, Watson Coleman argued that Republicans paved the way to slash America's social safety net.

"This budget cuts $880 billion out of energy and commerce, that's where you have Medicaid, that's where you have the Affordable Care Act and other kind of supplementals that help people stay healthy, get access to their prescriptions and things of that nature," she said. "At the same time, increasing the probability of additional taxes, tax breaks for the wealthiest corporations."

Geerges pushed back: "Congresswoman, I mean, Republicans are saying that Democrats are fear-mongering and that the president has promised not to cut Social Security, not to cut Medicare or Medicaid."

Watson Coleman, however, explained why Trump and Republicans could not be trusted.

"The one thing we know about Donald Trump is that he is both a convicted felon and a liar," she pointed out. "You don't have to believe anything that he says, nor do you have to believe the things that Republican colleagues in both the House and the Senate are saying, because they're scared to death of this dictator."

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"And so Republicans at this stage of the game will say anything Donald Trump tells them to say," she added. "And since Donald Trump is incapable of saying the truth every time he opens his mouth and breathes, then we shouldn't have any expectation that his minions, which represent the majority in the House and the majority in the Senate, can tell the truth either, because at the end of the day, he'll tell them something, and then he'll turn on them if it's to his advantage."

Watch the video below from C-SPAN.