WASHINGTON — Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a lockstep Trump supporter, has broken ranks. Johnson declared the President’s vow to wipe Iran from the face of Earth was excessive overreach. “I do not want to see us start blowing up civilian infrastructure,” Johnson told an interviewer. His statement was among growing insider doubts among Republicans about Trump’s mental fitness and lack of morality in suggesting the annihilation— compete and total — of 90 million people. Such action would constitute war crimes. Johnson said that escalating the Iran conflict to include attacks on power plants, bridges, and other civilian targets could have unintended consequences. Johnson did not backoff his support of of countering Iran’s military and nuclear ambitions. Although there were other cracks in GOP support for Trump’s war on Iran, most Republicans were silent, neither endorsing nor criticizing the President. The speaker the House, Mike Johnson, a Trump toady, put the chamber on an extended spring recess, which meant members would be in their home districts until April 14 — and geographically shielded from the Washington press corps. The extended recess was a parliamentary trick Johnson has used before to protect GOP House members from vulnerability to Trump’s retributory temper. House Democrats, meanwhile, clamored for Johnson to reconvene the House to start actions against Trump for dementia, moral turpitude, and procedural overreach. These are the Minnesota and Wisconsin delegate in Congress who are cowering in their home districts during Mike Johnson’s extended recess to avoid unwanted pressure to address Trump’s cultural genocide:
> Tom Emmer, R-Mn6 (north suburbs)
> Brad Finstad, R-Mn1 (New Ulm)
> Michelle Fischbach, R-Mn7 (rural west)
> Scott Fitzgerald, R-Mn8 (Clyman)
> Pete Stauber, R-Mn8 (Iron Range)
> Glen Grothman, R-Wi6 (Campbellsport)
> Bryan Steil, R-Wi-1 (Janesville)
> Tom Tiffany, R-Wi7 (Hazelburst)
> Derrick Van Orden, R-Wi3 (Prairie du Chien)
> Tony Wied, R-Wi8 (DePere)
Ron Johnson. Wisconsin senator. Trump has gne too far in trateng to distiguish military from civilian targets.
Mike Johnson. Speaker of U.S. House. Afraid to risk Trump’s wrath against Republican House members whose courage is waffling over Trump’s threat to violate the Geneva Convention against war crimes by targeting, indeed wiping out the Iranian population.
Trump’s mental cognizance
Public concern about President Trump’s cognitive fitness has risen in polls and in media scrutiny. His 80th birthday is in June. The doubts have resulted from his erratic speech patterns, episodic incoherence, and from mistaken premise and lies, and denials of reality. Trump’s refusals to release recent medical records further clouds questions about legal incompetence.
Options to unseat Trump
> Impeachment through Congress A trial is required.
> 25th Amendment. Allows the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet must declare a president’s inability to discharge duties.
> Public impeachment. Not contemplated in Constitution.
>Political neutering. Ending supportive majorities in Congress through resignation, mortality, impeachment, home state elections.
> Judicial neutering. Only applies to a specific act if unconstitutoonal or a “high crime.”
> Public vote. Only in a scheduled election.
> Resignation. Always possible through pressure, usually from close associates.