US senator suffers cramps when setting up with Trump-Record speech in the video

Reder record in the US Congress: With the longest speech in the history of the Senate, the Democratic Senator Cory Booker in the Congress Chamber protested President Donald Trump’s policy. The 55-year-old ended his combative marathon address on Tuesday evening at 8:05 p.m. (local time, Wednesday 02.05 CEST) after a record time of 25 hours and five minutes. Booker spoke 47 minutes longer than the previous Record holder Strom Thurmond.

Booker had stepped into the Senate on Monday evening at 7:00 p.m. (Tuesday 1:00 a.m. CEST). He spoke throughout the night and continued on his feet in the further course of the day to scourge Trump’s politics.

“I’m rising this evening because I honestly believe that our country is in a crisis,” said Booker. “These are not normal times.”

The senator and former presidential applicant criticized Trump’s radical cuts of the state apparatus with the dismissal of thousands of public service. Booker also accused the right-wing populist to tear more and more power and endanger US democracy. He spoke of a “unconstitutional” approach of Trump.

“In just 71 days, the President of the United States has caused so much damage to the basics of our democracy,” said the democratic senator, who represents the state of New Jersey in the Congress Chamber in just 71 days.

The United States was at a crucial moment of moral decisions. “It’s not about left or right. It’s about right or wrong,” the senator appealed to his colleagues.

Booker showed remarkable stamina in his speech: In order not to lose the right to speak, he had to stop continuously and was not even allowed to go to the toilet. The senator not only filled the time with criticism of Trump, but also with reading poems and explanations about sport. He also answered questions from colleagues in the Senate and was even joking with a view to his “biological” needs.

Even when Booker ended his speech after 25 hours and five minutes, his voice still sounded powerful, although the senator looked a bit more emotional.

When Booker’s speech came to an end and he was in the process of breaking the record, the spectator ranks of the Congress Chamber filled again. While more and more democratic parliamentarians joined the session, their Trump’s Republicans remained largely far away.

Similar, albeit shorter marathon speeches have always existed in the US Senate. Under the name Filibuster, they are known to be able to delay votes beyond laws. Record holder What the right -wing Senator Strom Thurmond so far. His speech held in 1957 took 24 hours and 18 minutes. At that time, Thurmond tried to block a civil rights law for African Americans.

The record of Strom Thurmond has always “itched,” said Booker, even African American, later the broadcaster MSNBC. He was particularly outraged that “the longest speech in our great Senate Hall” had been kept by someone who tried to take a seat there to stop “people like me”.

Technically speaking, Booker’s current speech was not a filibuster because the Senate has no vote on a legal text. Rather, Booker wanted to set a sign against Trump’s politics and probably also shaken his party.

Many supporters of the Democrats accuse the opposition party not to counteract Trump and his politics. In view of the flood of measures, announcements and targeted crossing of border by the President, the Democrats often seem paralyzed.