Stacey Plaskett calls for Trump’s execution

Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-U.S.V.I.), in a Sunday morning interview, called for the summary execution of President Donald J. Trump. She quickly thought better of what she said and changed the word – but not before she had uttered the first word.

Stacey Plaskett does it again

Del. Plaskett made her provocative statement on an interview this morning, on MSNBC, according to Todd Starnes. The interviewer was asking about the federal classified-documents case, for which Trump underwent arraignment last week. Making an obvious reference to the apparent evidence-in-chief – a recorded conversation between Trump and some dinner companions at his Bedminster Country Club – Stacey Plakett affected a horrified air.

Having Trump not only having the codes but now having the classified information for Americans and being able to put that out and share it in his resort with anyone and everything who comes through should be terrifying to all Americans. He needs to be shot — stopped.

As a delegate in the House of Representatives, she has no vote. She does, however, receive committee assignments. Currently she is the Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government. In that capacity she recently sat in on a hearing where Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi testified before that Subcommittee. In reply, she called them “direct threats to all who disagree with them.” Exactly how either man poses a threat, direct or indirect, to anyone, she has never said.

In February 2021 she served as a “Floor Manager” for the second impeachment of Trump – after he had left office. The purpose of that impeachment was to disqualify him from holding office again. That, of course, failed. (The Senate requires a two-thirds vote of the members present to convict in impeachment cases.)

She also has defended the Black Lives Matter movement against an accusation of “… not lik[ing] the old-fashioned family.” That statement came up during a debate on a COVID-19 relief package. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wisc.) suggested that package “increas[ed] the marriage penalty,” and suggested that BLM would be copacetic with that.

An interesting controversy

During the impeachment case, Stacey Plaskett felt the need to defend a decision not to call witnesses before the Senate.

We had no need to call any witnesses at the end of the trial because, as all Americans believed at that moment, the evidence was overwhelming.

Whether witnesses would have swayed anyone, is doubtful. The final vote was 57-43, short of the two-thirds threshold with every Senator present and voting.