A House Democrat may have committed a Freudian slip Sunday when the one-time impeachment manager voiced a permanent way to handle former President Donald Trump.
“Where is the secret service in all this?”
(Video: MSNBC)
Democratic congressional Delegate Stacey Plaskett, a non-voting representative for the Virgin Islands who served as a House manager during the second impeachment of Trump, joined MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” where a momentary slip of the tongue presented a serious cause for concern.
The ranking member of the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government had joined the program to talk about the president’s federal indictment related to his possession of documents marked classified.
Leaning until the guilty until proven innocent propaganda, Plaskett contended to host Jonathan Capehart, “Having Trump not only have had the codes but now having the classified information for Americans and being able to put that out and share it in his resort with anyone and everyone who comes through should be terrifying to all Americans.”
To that she asserted without skipping a beat, “And he needs to be shot — stopped.”
Reacting to the comment, many wondered where the corporate media outrage was after such an overt “incitement of violence” and whether or not she would be getting a knock on her door from the U.S. Secret Service for threatening the life of a former president.
Where is the secret service in all this ?
— Mike Knutar (@KnutarMike) June 18, 2023
Incite violence much?
— Al Adams (@kvballcoach) June 18, 2023
Direct threat of an ex President…, she needs to be impeached
— Peter Zabroski (@PZabroski) June 18, 2023
@SpeakerMcCarthy are you going to do anything about this!!?
— #1Covefefegirl (@MelFarnwalt) June 18, 2023
What in the world would make anyone think that was a slip???
— Night Meets Day (@_nightmeetsday) June 18, 2023
Of course, that wasn’t the only controversial remark from Plaskett during the MSNBC interview as she had a few things to say regarding Republican-led efforts to crack down on potential abuse of power from the federal government, namely a weaponized Justice Department.
Despite sitting on the subcommittee overseeing those investigations, the delegate blasted the GOP’s evidenced-backed claims of a two-tiered system of justice by accusing them of trying to be “above the law.”
“We know that this is a reckless man, who believes that he is above the law, that the rules do not apply to him — and that’s the thing that I’m concerned about with many of my colleagues in the GOP — that they believe that there is a two-tiered system. But the two-tiered system is not to punish them more,” she contended. “It’s to — they want it to allow them to get away with more than everyday Americans.”
This from the same delegate who had threatened journalist Matt Taibbi with jail time over an error in sworn testimony after he had used the wrong acronym for the Center for Internet Security (CIS), inadvertently referring to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
“This mistake is important,” Plaskett wrote in a letter regarding Taibbi’s testimony on the Twitter Files which shed light on the extent of Big Tech and federal agencies’ work to suppress information from the public, “because, by adding an ‘A,’ you weren’t making a harmless spelling error. Rather you were alleging that CISA — a government entity — was working with the EIP [Election Integrity Partnership] to have posts removed from social media.”
This was no accident!
— Lucipatriot (@lucindap2222) June 18, 2023
There wasn’t anything “accidental” about that statement
— Tim Hoog (@hoog_tim) June 19, 2023
She said the quiet part out loud
— Ancientreapers (@Ancientreapers0) June 18, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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