The language Donald Trump used to label six Democratic members of Congress as seditionists for urging members of the military and intelligence community to put the Constitution first and disobey illegal orders should never be normalized or accepted.
Speaker Mike Johnson initially said, “For a senator like Mark Kelly or any other member of the House or Senate to behave in those types of conversations, to me, is outrageous.”
As the backlash worsened as the day progressed, Johnson said Trump’s words were not the words he would use, and suggested Trump likes to use heated rhetoric.
Nothing Johnson said condemned Trump.
Republicans have tried to suggest that the six Democrats’ comments were somehow inflammatory because the Democrats had the audacity to remind members of the military that they work for the American people, not Donald Trump.
Mike Johnson identifies himself as a Christian, so it was telling that when Hakeem Jeffries spoke to reporters Thursday, he brought up a quality that most Christians are taught to embody.
Jeffries told reporters:
It’s extraordinary to me. We had patriotic members of the House and Senate whose lives were threatened by Donald Trump in the most unhinged, unacceptable, unconscionable and un-American way, disgusting and dangerous what Donald Trump has said by accusing patriotic members of Congress and Senate who have served this country well of treason and suggesting they should be killed.
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