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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Clyburn calls Trump family 'greatest threats to democracy in my lifetime'
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/clyburn-calls-trump-family-greatest-threats-democracy-my-lifetime-n985131?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR3O2Yl80KW72GOF0WPa9NBX-Y-O-hDjcHTWafE3kTbpqsEZVbmUGd3527IRep. Clyburn calls Trump family 'greatest threats to democracy in my lifetime'
The House majority whip said congressional investigations can set the table for impeachment if "deserved."
Speaker Nancy Pelosi Holds News Conference On Resolution To Terminate President Trump's Emergency Declaration
March 19, 2019, 5:23 PM EDT
By Mike Memoli
COLUMBIA, S.C. The third-ranking Democrat in the House on Tuesday called President Donald Trump and his family the greatest threats to democracy of my lifetime, saying Congress needed to do more to respond to the president's attempts to undermine American institutions.
Responding to Trump's renewed attacks on the late Sen. John McCain, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., went so far as to resurface his previous comparison of the president's actions to those of Hitler.
In an interview with NBC News, Clyburn noted that he had once been asked if he has ever seen a toxic political climate like todays, and that while he hadnt, he has studied ones like it.
"Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. And he went about the business of discrediting institutions to the point that people bought into" it, he said. "Nobody would have believed it now. But swastikas hung in churches throughout Germany. We had better be very careful.
McCain was a hero of our United States armed services, Clyburn said, adding that Trump was targeting him just like hed sought to discredit previous presidents, the Congress, and the free press.
We are asking for dire consequences. And I think its time for the Congress House and Senate to grow spines, and do what is necessary to protect this democracy. This man and his family are the greatest threats to democracy of my lifetime, he said.
Asked if that should include impeachment, a step that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said should not be pursued without greater political support, Clyburn said that House committees investigating the president should be allowed to continue their work.
I think all of us know that impeachment is a political concept. And if the committees do their work properly they will be able to bring the public along with them, he said. They will be able to set the tone for impeachment if that is deserved.
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Rep. Clyburn calls Trump family 'greatest threats to democracy in my lifetime' (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2019
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spanone
(135,795 posts)1. I Agree 1,000%
Yeehah
(4,568 posts)2. I see the deplorable supporters as the greatest threat
A large, stupid and gullible popuation sets the stage for fascism.