Cummings Predicts More Trump Protests ‘to Make Sure that the Government Becomes Afraid’

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD) predicted in response to President Donald Trump’s agenda we are going to see “more and more people going into the streets” to “make sure that the government becomes afraid of the people.”

Cummings said, “There is something happening here. What we are finding is that more and more people are looking at some of the appointments that are being made by President Trump. They are looking at the policies that he’s putting out — as a matter of fact just recently we got four different documents where we see that there has been put a gag order on federal employees — And so I think federal employees feel like they are under a gun. And they feel like they cannot do the job they need to do. So it doesn’t surprise me. I think you are going to see even more of that. I think you are going to see something else.”

“I think you are going to see more and more people going into the streets,” he continued. “You know in some countries, the people are afraid of the government. And I think people are trying to make sure that the government becomes afraid of the people. and I anticipate that you are going to see more and more Republican congressmen with members of their community knocking on their doors and complaining because a lot of people are scared. They don’t know where we’re going. They see their country changing literally by the minute. And things like torture and things of that nature, and gag orders, these are — this is not the America and not the democracy that they want.”