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This is really important: is everyone processing that, across two tweets today—considered official presidential statements—the President of the United States falsely accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice of secretly plotting a "treasonous" "coup"?
1/ False claims of Treason (a death penalty-eligible crime) and a coup of the U.S. government (an event that could lead to a Second Civil War) are imminent threats to public order, public safety, and our rule of law. Whether it's deranged ex-cop @dbongino or Trump doesn't matter.
2/ Law enforcement officials across the country need to stand ready to report to media that, as I've itemized in a thread today and as all public reporting confirms, the actions of the then-Acting FBI Director and then-Acting AG (as to the Russia probe) were all 100% appropriate.
3/ What Trump said today is a clear assault on our rule of law—and even public safety—at a time when the walls are closing in on him in a major federal criminal investigation. At some point *someone* in DC has to register that Trump is creating a legitimately dangerous situation.
4/ It is unacceptable—and dangerous—for any sizable percentage of Americans to believe law enforcement officials acting appropriately in their official capacity are in fact staging a death penalty-eligible coup of our government. That the POTUS would say so makes it more obscene.
5/ *Every politician in America* should be rebuking the president tonight. If we lived in normal times, the statements that Trump has issued today—*taken by themselves*—would be deserving of Congressional censure as a direct assault on the rule of law and Trump's Oath of Office.
6/ The conversation between McCabe and Rosenstein—a necessary running through of potential options under historically idiosyncratic circumstances created by Trump—led nowhere. That Trump is raging against it two years on is a sign Trump is afraid of *what's coming*, not the past.
7/ An innocent man would simply refer journalists to the statement made by DOJ and claim that any conversations of the sort McCabe describes rightfully led to nothing; he would then reassert his innocence. Instead Trump's words imagine federal death penalty-eligible prosecutions.
