President Trump on Wednesday blasted Republicans who won’t pledge fealty to him in the impeachment fight, claiming such people are “human scum.”
“The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats,” Trump wrote in a tweet, which he subsequently pinned to his profile. “Watch out for them, they are human scum!”
The president called Bill Taylor, his own acting ambassador to Ukraine, a “Never Trumper” along with Taylor’s lawyer. Trump also claimed that he didn’t know Taylor after he gave a damning testimony before Congress about the president’s push for a Ukrainian investigation into the Bidens. “It would be really great if the people within the Trump Administration, all well-meaning and good (I hope!), could stop hiring Never Trumpers, who are worse than the Do Nothing Democrats. Nothing good will ever come from them!” Trump wrote in another tweet.
Republican lawmaker says it's 'beneath the office of the presidency' for Trump to call critics 'human scum'
(CNN)A high-profile member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee chided President Donald Trump on Wednesday for calling Republicans who have refused to back him "human scum."
"To call anybody human scum is beneath the office of the presidency. You can't say that, right? You're the president. You have different standards," said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room."
The Air Force veteran was asked about the combative tweet posted by Trump on Wednesday afternoon, in which Trump accused the "Never Trumper Republicans" of being more dangerous to the country than "Do Nothing Democrats."
"Watch out for them, they are human scum!" the President tweeted.
"Sometimes you'll hear people say, 'Well this congressman said this once' ... yeah, nobody should say anything like this," Kinzinger said.
"But I think there's a different level when you're the President of the United States. You have a different responsibility and that's why I'm outspoken about it," he continued.
Kinzinger also shared concerns about what he termed "name-calling" and the effects those remarks can have on morale in Congress during the interview. Kinzinger said his colleagues in the House needed to "talk to each other as grownups."
"We need to just have conversations and I'm going to say this to my colleagues on my side and the other side of the aisle ... by calling names and screaming and yelling and demonstrating, you never win anybody to your side. "You just make your base happy but you're not actually doing anything effective," said Kinzinger.
Kinzinger was speaking hours after Ambassador Jim Jeffrey's statement to Kinzinger's committee that more than 100 escaped ISIS fighters had gone missing after Turkey agreed to halt its attack on Syrian Kurds. Trump maintains that the ISIS fighters who escaped Kurdish jails during the attack have "been largely recaptured."
"I asked Ambassador Jeffrey today: does ISIS see this pullout as a benefit or negative to them?" said Kinzinger of the ceasefire. "He said they're happy about it. So, it's beneficial to ISIS. We don't have a view on where ISIS is right now. They're obviously going to reconstitute."
He added, "I'm glad there is no fighting, you know, I think given the circumstance, a cease fire is good. But this is not a victory at all."
Well, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the republican party, I ma proud to join with the human scum on this issue and count myself among them.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
