Article snippet: In a chamber packed with loud personalities, Sen. MORE (D-Hawaii) is not the obvious pick to be a pillar of resistance to the Trump administration. She’s not running for president. She’s petite, generally unassuming and for years had a reputation among reporters for refusing to talk in the Capitol. She is, in the words of her colleagues, a “workhorse.” But Hirono, 71, has emerged as an electrifying force for progressives as they battle with MORE’s probe and subsequent report. “Trump is a major motivation to be speaking out because I so disagree with some of the things that he decides on, and you notice there’s a lawsuit on just about everything he does? My gosh,” Hirono told The Hill. She captured headlines Wednesday during Attorney General MORE’s hearing before the Judiciary Committee, which has three Democrats running for president, when she used a blistering four-minute monologue to accuse him of lying to Congress and to tell him to resign. “Now the American people know that you are no different from Rudy Giuliani or MORE or any of the other people who sacrifice their once decent reputation for the grifter and liar who sits in the Oval Office,” Hirono said. The exchange marked one of the most aggressive moments of the hearing, and it underscored Hirono’s role as one of the caucus’s staunchest Trump critics and her penchant for making high-profile, viral moments that thrill progressives. It’s also made her a target for Republicans, who have nicknamed her “Crazy... Link to the full article to read more