President Donald Trump suggested that congressional Republicans should expel Democratic lawmakers from Congress in response to a so-far small impeachment push that has not been endorsed by party leadership.
In a lengthy Truth Social post published late Thursday night, the president wrote: “The Democrats are really out of control. They have lost everything, especially their minds! These Radical Left Lunatics are into the ‘Impeachment thing’ again. They have already got two ‘No Name,’ little respected Congressmen, total Whackjobs both, throwing the ‘Impeachment’ of DONALD J. TRUMP around.”
“The Republicans should start to think about expelling them from Congress for all of the crimes that they have committed, especially around Election time(s),” Trump continued, calling Democrats “very dishonest people that won’t let our Country heal” and “total LOWLIFES, who hate our Country, and everything it stands for.”
“Perhaps we should start playing this game on them, and expel Democrats for the many crimes that they have committed,” the president wrote.
Democrats are not wholly on board with the idea of impeaching Trump for a third time, with House Democratic Conference Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) telling Semafor that impeachment is “not an exercise that we’re willing to undertake.” Last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said impeachment was “too far away to even judge,” as a viable option for the current moment.
There is no evidence that Democrats committed any crimes against Trump — as he claimed in his post on Thursday, mentioning Sen. Adam Schiff, specifically — but the president has repeatedly made his thirst for revenge clear, and since taking office again has moved to exact it both through social media directive and through leveraging the hard power of the federal government he now controls.
In March, after months of threats on the campaign trail, Trump attempted to undo preemptive pardons granted to members of the Jan. 6 committee whom Trump had singled out as potential prosecution targets. “The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
While no member of Congress has yet been charged by Trump’s administration, the White House seems to be getting comfortable with using the justice system to retaliate or make an example of political rivals. The FBI last week made a public show of arresting Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan after accusing her of obstructing the arrest of an undocumented migrant. The administration has also launched an investigation into Chris Krebs, the former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, who in 2020 debunked false claims that Trump had lost the election to fraud.
The retribution is only just beginning. On Wednesday, White House “Border Czar” Tom Homan was asked by a reporter why the administration doesn’t just “arrest the leaders” of sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, “for harboring and shielding illegal aliens, actually, terrorists from deportation.”
Homan’s response can only be interpreted as a threat: “Wait and see what’s coming.”
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