Jim McGovern Turns the Tables by Diagnosing House Republicans with ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome,’ Tells Them, ‘You Are in a Cult’
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) went off on House Republicans during a meeting of the Rules Committee on Tuesday, where he accused them of having “Trump derangement syndrome.”
The term is frequently used by supporters of Donald Trump to describe his detractors, suggesting they are obsessed with maligning the former president.
The Massachusetts lawmaker juxtaposed Republicans’ reaction to Trump’s criminal conviction last month to Democrats’ response to Hunter Biden’s conviction on Tuesday. Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records and the president’s son was found guilty on three gun-related charges. In the former instance, Republicans slammed the verdict and even claimed President Joe Biden was behind the state charges in New York. Meanwhile, regarding his son, the president said he accepts the outcome of his son’s trial.
McGovern slammed Republicans’ allegation that the president has “weaponized” the justice system:
Did Hunter Biden walk out of the courthouse this morning and slam the judge or the prosecutors? Did he claim some vast conspiracy to weaponize the legal system against him? No, he did not. In a statement on the verdict, President Biden said, “I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process.”
Now I ask, after the verdict this morning, how can any Republican in their right mind argue that the Biden administration is weaponizing the DOJ to hurt Republicans and to help Democrats? They just convicted the president’s own son, to say nothing of the fact that the Department of Justice is currently trying a Democratic senator and has indicted a Democratic member of this House. I mean, do Republicans still believe that President Biden is weaponizing the justice system? Because if he is, he’s sure doing a lousy job.
And as usual, the only Trump derangement syndrome going on around here is on the other side of the aisle. I mean, people are saying that Biden orchestrated the conviction of his own son in order to justify the criminal charges against Trump. That is how you think when you are in a cult. So, here’s the bottom line. Republicans just can’t wrap their heads around the idea that their presidential candidate, your presumptive nominee, is a convicted felon. That is not the result of a sham process or some vast conspiracy by the Biden administration. That is a result of the truth. And these attacks on our justice system have to come to a stop.
The unnamed lawmakers McGovern referenced above are Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), who have been charged with bribery in two unrelated cases.
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