Mon Jun 19, 2023 – 5:43 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — During a weekend interview, a Democrat representative rushed to correct herself when she accidentally said that former president Donald Trump “needs to be shot.”
Rep. Stacey Plaskett, a non-voting delegate for the U.S. Virgin Islands, was brought on MSNBC on Sunday to discuss the impact of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. She is also a member of the House Intelligence Committee and a former House impeachment manager during Trump’s second trial.
Asked how the country may be impacted by the charges against the former president, Plaskett said that “having Trump not only have had the codes, but now he has the classified information for Americans and being able to put that out and share it in his resort with anyone and everyone who comes through, that should be terrifying to all Americans, and he needs to be shot — stopped.”
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Her unexpected comment came after she described the ongoing case and its relevance to national security, nuclear weapons, information collection and military allies as “incredibly serious.”
Trump was indicted earlier this month for allegedly mishandling classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate after
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