WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump faced rebuke Sunday from officials in both parties after calling for the “termination” of parts of the Constitution over his lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
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Trump, who announced last month that he is running again for president, made the claim over the weekend on his Truth Social media platform.
“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” he wrote. “Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”
Incoming House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday described Trump’s statement as strange and extreme and said Republicans will have to make a choice whether to continue embracing Trump’s anti-democratic views.
“Republicans are going to have to work out their issues with the former president and decide whether they’re going to break from him and return to some semblance of reasonableness or continue to lean in to the extremism, not just of Trump, but Trumpism,” Jeffries said.
Trump, who is the first to be impeached twice and whose term ended with his supporters violently storming the Capitol in a deadly bid to halt the peaceful transition of power on Jan. 6, 2021, faces a escalating criminal investigations, including several that could lead to indictments. They include the probe into classified documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago, and ongoing state and federal inquiries related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Asked about Trump’s comments Sunday, Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said he “vehemently” disagrees and “absolutely” condemns the remarks, saying they should be a factor as Republicans decide who should lead their party in 2024.
“There is a political process that has to go forward before anybody is a frontrunner or anybody is even the candidate for the party,” he said. “I believe that people certainly are going to take into consideration a statement like this as they evaluate a candidate.”
Rep.-elect Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., also objected to the remarks, saying it was time to stop focusing on the “grievances of prior elections.”
“The Constitution is set for a reason, to protect the rights of every American,” Lawler said. “I think the former president would be well-advised to focus on the future, if he is going to run for president again.”
Trump’s comments came after Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, said he would reveal how Twitter engaged in “free speech suppression” leading up to the 2020 election. But files released Friday, which focused on the tech company’s confused response to a story about Biden’s son Hunter, do not show Democrats trying to limit the story.
The White House on Saturday assailed Trump, saying, “You cannot only love America when you win.”
“The American Constitution is a sacrosanct document that for over 200 years has guaranteed that freedom and the rule of law prevail in our great country,” spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement. “Attacking the Constitution and all it stands for is anathema to the soul of our nation.”
Jeffries appeared on ABC’s “This Week,” Turner spoke on CBS’ “Face the Nation” and Lawler was on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
What Trump “tweeted” (or is it “truthed”?) on his social media platform is not shocking. I mean, it might be an effective way to drive “eyeballs” to his platform.
What is shocking are all the lemmings that continue to follow Trump off of cliffs after cliffs. People who are otherwise sane (mostly, at least) cannot seem to recognize that this emperor REALLY has no clothes.
And people are worried that Biden lost his marbles. At least Biden has some sensible advisors (even if we don’t agree with their policies). Trump has absolutely nobody but himself. The 2 “adults in the room” (Ivana and Jared) have enough sense to move on from him.
Why can’t more of us have the same level of sense?
Former President Trump feels bad that he is not the center of attention after kanye Ys’V made some crazy antisemitic remarks so he is trying to out crazy his remaks…
There can no longer be any doubt about the state of Trump’s mental health after this remark following last week’s dinner with Ye and Fuentes.
He has succeeded in dividing our people. I have relatives who think like the commenters in VIN. I will not have them in my house ever again nor will I eat with them. I am done listening to the idiotic support for this evil man. I am a Republican and cannot stand the Democratic liberal progressive craziness we are dealing with….. but I cannot sell my soul for this man… and I will not let his followers into my personal space ever again.
Every elected politician takes an OATH to uphold and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies foreign and domestic. Its insane that Trump fits into this category.
Trump has done everything by now. the only thing left for him is to actually shoot someone on fifth avenue
I repeat again. I didn’t leave Trump. Trump left me. He is not the same guy as last time.
Trump is wrong. Full stop. The media keeps hounding every Republican to condemn Trump. Does anyone in the media ever ask any Democrat to condemn the violent BLM insurgency of the summer of 2020? We were all there. We remember the democrats who encouraged the demonic violence. No Democrat condemned it. Still won’t. They even lied to the American people and said it was peaceful protest. Lie of the century. Why do only Republicans need to condemn. How come democrats don’t need to condemn their far worse sins? I don’t support Trump but until there is one standard, Republicans should ignore all requests for condemnations.
A bunch of baloney by the bloniest AP. “His lie” my foot!
AP = Always Propaganda (and usually lies)
“WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump faced rebuke Sunday from officials in both parties after calling for the “termination” of parts
of the Constitution over his lie that the 2020 election was stolen.”
First, he did not call to terminate any part of the Constitution. This is simply a lie.
As well, he did not lie that the 2020 election was stolen. The courts refused to hear his cases. That means that the truth of those claims are still unknown.
Additionally, the media recently admitted that they and the tech companies deliberately censored the laptop story. That alone was enough to change the election balance to deny President Trump his second term.
Such sheker and rishus.
Now obviously trump is self centered and no we can’t cancel the constitution so that he should rule.
But it’s worth bearing in mind that nothing is the Torah or ruach hakodesh. The constitution or bill of rights isn’t a nevuah. Should there ever be a time where the obvious moral decision would be to void the constitution or bill of rights like that did with slavery then so be it
President Donald Trump שליט”א only calls for suspension of constitution, and then only for suspension & not for abrogation of constitution.
sleepy joe not just suspended, but actually broke up the constitution, by stealing the 2020 election from President Donald Trump שליט”א who definitely was duly reelected.
nancy pelosi probably has also physically broken the constitution by ripping up the State of the Union address.
So Please:- Let’s keep matters in perspective.