WATCH: ‘This is not what our founders envisioned’ Spanberger says after Trump’s State of the Union

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s leadership is not what the nation’s founders envisioned.

“You have to ask, who benefits from his rhetoric, his policies, his actions, the short list of laws he's pushed through this Republican Congress. Somebody must be benefiting. He's enriching himself, his family, his friends -- the scale of the corruption is unprecedented,” Spanberger said in the official Democratic response to Trump's State of the Union address.

“There's the cover-up of the Epstein files, the crypto scams, cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes and billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name and face on buildings all over our nation's capital. This is not what our founders envisioned, not by a long shot,” she said.

Spanberger, Virginia's first woman governor and vocal Trump critic, was elected last November in an off-cycle election dominated by Democratic wins that was seen as a warning sign for Republicans in the upcoming midterms.

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