Actor and filmmaker Rob Reiner shamed congressional Republicans for allowing President Trump to remain in office following his impeachment by the House and claimed that “blood” was also “on their hands” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“The GOP knew who this man was,” Reiner tweeted Tuesday. “They knew he was incompetent. They knew he was mentally unwell.”
The Hollywood comedian continued: “They had the power to remove him. The Blood is on their hands too.”
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The GOP knew who this man was. They knew he was incompetent. They knew he was mentally unwell. They had the power to remove him. The Blood is on their hands too.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) April 7, 2020
Trump was acquitted by the Senate in February, with only one Republican, Sen. Mitt Romney, voting to convict him on one of the two charges he faced.
Reiner has been intensely critical of Trump since he took office, and just last week, he called the president a “sociopath” who does not care if American citizens die from the coronavirus.
Other celebrities have placed blame for the growing number of American deaths at Trump’s feet since the outbreak.
Actor John Cusack called for Trump’s removal from office in order to “save lives.” Comedian and Saturday Night Live guest Alec Baldwin suggested Trump himself “is the virus” and that the “cure” is removing him from office in the November general election.
Nearly 400,000 people have contracted COVID-19 in the United States as of Wednesday, and more than 12,000 people have died nationwide.
