The language used by Donald Trump describing six Democratic members of Congress as seditionists because they urged members of the military and intelligence community to put the Constitution first and not obey illegal orders should never be normalized or accepted.
Speaker Mike Johnson initially said: “For a senator like Mark Kelly or any member of the House or Senate to behave in this kind of speech is simply beyond my reach. »
As the backlash grew worse as the day wore on, Johnson said Trump’s words were not ones he would use and suggested Trump liked to use fiery rhetoric.
Nothing Johnson said condemned Trump.
Republicans tried to suggest that the six Democrats’ comments were somehow inflammatory because Democrats had the gall to remind the military that they work for the American people, not Donald Trump.
Mike Johnson identifies as a Christian, so it’s telling that when Hakeem Jeffries spoke to reporters Thursday, he brought a trait that most Christians are taught to embody.
Jeffries told reporters:
It’s extraordinary for me. The lives of patriotic members of the House and Senate have been threatened by Donald Trump in the most unbalanced, unacceptable, unconscionable and un-American, disgusting and dangerous way which Donald Trump has said by accusing patriotic members of Congress and Senate who have served this country well of treason and suggesting that they should be killed.
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