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Harry Reid is definitely not here for Donald Trump.

The soon-to-be retired senator has nothing to lose as his service in American politics comes to an end—Reid announced he would not seek re-election in March of 2015.

The Nevada senator released a scathing page-length rebuke of the new president-elect, condemning his hate speech and laying the nation’s division at his feet, The Washington Post reports.

Reid begins the statement by saying that after 26 elections, he’s never seen anything like Tuesday’s election and its subsequent fallout. Reid gives fair warning against the media’s normalization of Trump, while also lashing out at him and questioning his legitimacy.

“Winning the electoral college does not absolve Trump of the grave sins he committed against millions of Americans,” Reid writes. “Donald Trump may not possess the capacity to assuage those fears, but he owes it to this nation to try. If Trump wants to roll back tide of hate he unleashed, he has a tremendous amount of work to do and he must begin immediately.”

Reid weaves in and out of personal narrative to express his contempt for Trump and his incendiary rhetoric that has severely frightened many in this country including African-Americans, the LGBT community, Muslims, Mexicans and women.

Read Reid’s statement in full below:

“I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections and I have never seen anything like the reaction to the election completed last Tuesday. The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America.

White nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory, while innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear – especially African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, LGBT Americans and Asian Americans. Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America.

I have heard more stories in the past 48 hours of Americans living in fear of their own government and their fellow Americans than I can remember hearing in five decades in politics. Hispanic Americans who fear their families will be torn apart, African Americans being heckled on the street, Muslim Americans afraid to wear a headscarf, gay and lesbian couples having slurs hurled at them and feeling afraid to walk down the street holding hands. American children waking up in the middle of the night crying, terrified that Trump will take their parents away. Young girls unable to understand why a man who brags about sexually assaulting women has been elected president.

I have a large family. I have one daughter and twelve granddaughters. The texts, emails and phone calls I have received from them have been filled with fear – fear for themselves, fear for their Hispanic and African American friends, for their Muslim and Jewish friends, for their LBGT friends, for their Asian friends. I’ve felt their tears and I’ve felt their fear.

We as a nation must find a way to move forward without consigning those who Trump has threatened to the shadows. Their fear is entirely rational, because Donald Trump has talked openly about doing terrible things to them. Every news piece that breathlessly obsesses over inauguration preparations compounds their fear by normalizing a man who has threatened to tear families apart, who has bragged about sexually assaulting women and who has directed crowds of thousands to intimidate reporters and assault African Americans. Their fear is legitimate and we must refuse to let it fall through the cracks between the fluff pieces.

If this is going to be a time of healing, we must first put the responsibility for healing where it belongs: at the feet of Donald Trump, a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate. Winning the electoral college does not absolve Trump of the grave sins he committed against millions of Americans. Donald Trump may not possess the capacity to assuage those fears, but he owes it to this nation to try.

If Trump wants to roll back tide of hate he unleashed, he has a tremendous amount of work to do and he must begin immediately.”

SOURCE: The Washington Post | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty

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The Reid Of 2016: The Senator Blames Trump For Country’s Civil Unrest  was originally published on newsone.com