"Early in the interview on Tuesday, Booker sank into his chair in stunned silence as I've Had It podcast host torched him on his heart-breaking decision to back Charles Kushner, father of Trump's son-in-law, as U.S. ambassador to France amounted to capitulation to President Donald Trump. Booker had deflected and appealed against the accusations, bemoaning Democratic tendencies to initiate a circular firing squad but only for the host to retort with: Such bullsh*t."
"I'm one of a handful of people that don't take corporate PAC money. I don't understand my Democratic Booker began. The host interrupted: What about AIPAC money? You take AIPAC money, don't you? He replied: A minuscule percentage of my resources come from I read it's like $800,000? Welch cut in. Yeah, but that's a lifetime number of raising tens of millions of dollars. Let me give you the right stat. The majority of my money comes from small-dollar contributions."
"Again, we could pick at each other, or we could do what we need to be doing right now is joining in a chorus of conviction to condemn it, the Democrat replied. He added: And again, I'm a child of civil rights activists. You think Malcolm X and Martin Luther King agreed on everything? No. But when it came to the fight, they joined together and created a movement that was successful. And that's really my focus."
Left-leaning podcaster Jennifer Welch confronted Senator Cory Booker about roughly $800,000 he received from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Welch criticized Booker's decision to back Charles Kushner as U.S. ambassador to France and slammed him for posing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Booker defended himself by saying he does not take corporate PAC money and that the majority of his funds come from small-dollar donors, disputing the emphasis on the AIPAC lifetime figure. Booker appealed to unity, invoking civil rights leaders who joined despite differences to advance a movement.
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