‘Mind-Boggling’: Ex-White House Aide Exposes GOP’s ‘Absolutely Insane’ Trump Hypocrisy | EUROtoday

Sarah Matthews, an ex-White House aide to Donald Trump, took on the present administration’s “gaslighting” on Friday after the president boosted a social media publish calling for the execution of Democrats in Congress.

″[It’s] mind-boggling however not stunning,” stated Matthews in an look on MS NOW.

In addition to Trump sharing a Truth Social person’s name to “HANG THEM” in response to Democratic veterans urging army members to refuse illegal orders, he declared that “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR” was “punishable by DEATH” in one other publish.

Matthews — a White House deputy press secretary in Trump’s first time period who resigned after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol — stated it’s “absolutely insane” that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and different Trump officers are defending the publish.

“If this was any other president, we would be having conversations about the 25th Amendment if they were calling for the opposing party — members of the opposing party, to be hanged,” Matthews stated.

She countered Leavitt for claiming that the Democrats might incite violence because of their video.

“To me, it looks like the president is the one very clearly inciting violence here,” Matthews stated.

She additionally pointed to politicians and others speaking a couple of have to “tone down the rhetoric” within the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

“But instead the president is the one who keeps continuing to just ratchet it up,” she stated.

Matthews added that it’s “really shameful” that Republicans are “sane-washing” Trump’s posts as a substitute of “very clearly” condemning them as all lawmakers ought to.

“It really does speak to how we are so divided as a country and how Trump has just normalized this type of rhetoric and desensitized us as Americans that this is acceptable because it’s not,” she continued.

Check out extra of MS NOW’s phase on Trump’s posts under.