Schultz: "I'm Going To Do Everything I Can To Remove Trump From Office," He Is Weak and Insecure

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said he has a strategy to defeat President Trump in the 2020 presidential election in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday's edition of 'Anderson Cooper 360.'





ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: What do you say to those who argue that President Trump proves that the presidency shouldn't be an entry level job in government and also do you feel like you know how to run against President Trump? I know you said you don’t -- you're not engaged in this Twitter war. You’re not paying attention to that, but there are a lot of very qualified Republicans who are running against him and he beat them all. Do you know how to beat him?



HOWARD SCHULTZ, FMR. STARBUCKS CEO, INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT: I've spent the last almost 40 years building the kind of company which we serve people, 100 million customers a week. We employ almost 400,000 people. I’ve spent my entire career building consensus, creating imagination and innovation and working well with people on both sides of the aisle. President Trump to me is not the litmus test for the presidency and not the litmus test for what I'm going to try and do. What I will say is I'm going to do everything I can to remove President Trump from office.







COOPER: And you think you have a strategy -- you know how to do that? That you've gone against people like him before?



SCHULTZ: Well, again, President Trump is a person that fights with hate and a lot of vitriol. I view that as insecurity and weakness. What I’m going to do is I’m going to speak directly to the hearts and minds of the American people and let them decide the future of the country with regard to who the next president’s going to be.