Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) and former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norman Eisen railed Tuesday against the threat former President Donald Trump poses if he is reelected, alluding to the Holocaust and citing the potential ordered assassinations of America’s citizens.
“The extreme weaponization of the federal government that the former president told us that he will do if he is reelected” represents a clear and present threat to democracy, Plaskett said during the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
On the campaign trail, Trump has made “terrifying statements” that foreshadow extreme government weaponization, the delegate said.
“He has said that he will ‘act like a dictator’ on day one of any second term,” she said. “He has said that he would proudly claim full credit for overturning Roe v. Wade, a woman’s protection from [an] overbearing state and her right to privacy.”
Trump has even suggested he could get away with ordering the death of U.S. citizens, Plaskett said.
“He’s argued in court, as a legal argument, that he would have full immunity as president, even if he ordered the assassination of individual Americans,” the delegate said.
Along with Plaskett, Eisen said the 45th president was an “imminent threat of that weaponization” and appeared to use his family members’ experience at the Auschwitz concentration camp to try and bolster his argument.
“My mother survived Auschwitz, a slave labor camp at Neuengamme, and a death train in the last days of the war. My father was trapped in Warsaw in 1939, miraculously made his way out to the United States, and then joined the U.S. Army to fight that weaponization by the Nazis and their Axis allies,” he said.
Eisen then detailed how his maternal grandparents were gassed at Auschwitz and how there “can be no more important topic than the weaponization of government.”
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“I urge the committee with all respect to focus on the most imminent threat of that weaponization now facing us as a nation: Donald Trump’s record of weaponizing the government and his promises to double down, should he return to power,” he said.
“Given my family history, I would be remiss if I did not speak up,” Eisen said.
