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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Garcia

Why some Democrats are attending Trump’s address while others boycott it

Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania is an ardent opponent of Donald Trump’s. She served as a manager for his second trial when Congress impeached him over the January 6 riot.

Nevertheless, Dean says she will be coming to listen to Trump’s first joint address to Congress since returning to the White House earlier this year. Dean – wearing white, the color of the women’s suffrage movement – said she wants to “stand up to the lies that he will tell.”

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