Yesterday, Trump took to Truth Social to call for Houlahan and other Democratic lawmakers to be executed for “sedition” after they released a video urging our military service men and women to disobey illegal orders. Trump went so far as to repost a message saying: “HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD !!”
When confronted about the calls for violence, Speaker Johnson — ever the coward and Trump enabler — said that “the words that the president chose are not the ones that I would use. OK?”
“Obviously, I don’t think that this is, these are crimes punishable by death or any of that. OK?” he continued. “But what… What the point that we need to emphasize here is that members of Congress in the Senate and the House should not be telling troops to disobey orders. It is dangerous.”
There’s nothing “dangerous” about telling our troops to ignore illegal orders. Their oaths to the Constitution demand that they stand up to their superiors if they’re ordered to violate the law.
“And then to say, as you mentioned, something as inaccurate as the fact that we are asking for people to disobey orders, we indeed are asking people to make sure that they don’t obey illegal orders,” said Houlahan.
“We are required to disobey illegal orders. And that’s simply what this message said,” she explained.
“I will be honest, being a member of Congress is always something where your safety is at risk. And so for me, this isn‘t really a very different posture than before,” she continued.
“You know, of course, I’m very worried about this office and my team and my family, but I think I’m just continually stunned by the fact that I’m worried about it is because the commander in chief, the president of the United States, has called for my death,” she went on. “And that’s something that should just be chilling for everybody.”
“And everybody should be worried about their safety in this nation when the president can wield that sort of a statement,” Houlahan concluded.
If Johnson had even an ounce of integrity in his body he would have forcefully condemned Trump’s indefensible and deeply unAmerican calls for violence. In any case, his days as Speaker are numbered. A blue wave is coming and when it arrives, he’ll be washed out of power.