Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) on Monday reacted with shock and horror to President Donald Trump's tweet that seemingly called on Republicans to stop Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) from releasing a memo that debunks many of the claims put forth by a memo released last week by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA).
During a CNN interview, Connolly was asked to respond to the president's tweet, in which he declared that "Little Adam Schiff... must be stopped."
Connolly did not pull any punches in his response.
"This man is unhinged," the Virginia Democrat said. "That kind of tweet from the President of the United States makes no sense at all if you have nothing to worry about. If you already feel that the Republican Nunes memo was exculpatory, what are you worried about?"
Connolly then said that he was very disturbed by the president's order to "stop" Schiff, and he said it reminded him of something you'd hear in a dictatorship rather than a democracy.
"To actually use those chilling words -- 'he must be stopped' -- that's the kind of language you hear in an authoritarian regime somewhere overseas, it's not the kind of language we use in democratic discourse in the United States," he said, while also noting that Trump's tweet seemed to be an "incitement" to get people within the government to stop additional information about the FBI's surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page from getting out.
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