(LifeSiteNews) — During a weekend interview, a Democrat representative rushed to correct herself when she accidentally said that former president Donald Trump “needs to be shot.”
Rep. Stacey Plaskett, a non-voting delegate for the U.S. Virgin Islands, was brought on MSNBC on Sunday to discuss the impact of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. She is also a member of the House Intelligence Committee and a former House impeachment manager during Trump’s second trial.
Asked how the country may be impacted by the charges against the former president, Plaskett said that “having Trump not only have had the codes, but now he has 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, that should be terrifying to all Americans, and he needs to be shot – stopped.”
Her unexpected comment came after she described the ongoing case and its relevance to national security, nuclear weapons, information collection and military allies as “incredibly serious.”
Plaskett’s comments presumed that Trump would “share” classified document contents with persons who would come through the Mar-a-Lago Trump estate but there has been nothing to indicate that Trump would ever allow such a thing or that the documents would have necessarily been more secure with the National Archives (NARA) agency.
Trump had repeatedly offered the agency the opportunity to review the documents he had and to make decisions about some of them possibly deemed too sensitive for him to retain but the offer was not taken up.
Conservative Treehouse reported that “The NARA refused to participate in the collection of any documents from the White House during the transition phase following the November 2020 election.” Critics of the legal action against Trump have charged that the lack of response to Trump was a deliberate setup to justify these later charges. The government records agency deliberately “refused to assist in the collection of the Trump records for national archive holding and review, and then the NARA triggered a sequence of events that led to the DOJ using a reference from the NARA, to weaponize a process they refused to engage in.”
Trump was indicted earlier this month for allegedly mishandling classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate after concluding his term as president. The federal charges brought against him are related to numerous violations, including obstructing justice, possessing classified national security documents and corrupt handling of records.
As previously reported by LifeSiteNews, Trump has pleaded “not guilty” to all 37 charges a year after his Florida home was raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to retrieve the documents. The indictment argues that Trump held boxes with documented information about nuclear programs and military vulnerabilities at his home without authorization, further alleging that the former commander-in-chief failed to cooperate with the National Archives to return the documents.
Trump is the first former U.S. president in American history to face federal charges from the Department of Justice (DOJ).
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