Pressure building to expel Steve King from Congress

[Sunlei]

Source: msnbc

In the wake of the horrific anti-Semitic massacre in Pittsburgh, there is a renewed focus on Rep. Steve King and a growing call for the Republican Party to do something about him.

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Steven Arnold King is an American politician serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa's 4th congressional district'

He's a white nationalist, in case some didn't know.

President Trump and his administration have sent a clear message to the far right.

In 2009 and 2015 the Department of Homeland Security, as well as the FBI, warned us about the rise of far right terrorism.[1] In one of his first acts as President he cut funding to programs meant to combat far right terrorism.[2] This action was taken when there is a growing trend of anti-government terrorism.[3] The threat of Islamic terrorism should never be overlooked and should be taken very seriously, however President Trump's administration completely ignores one of the largest perpetrators of terrorism in America.[4]


The frequency of far-right attacks is particularly significant in the United States, where white supremacist, anti-government and neo-Nazi extremists have been responsible for 73 percent of deadly terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, according to the Government Accountability Office. Also notable is that in many cases, Muslims have become the target of violence.

The United States of America is a victim of 300 violent attacks inspired by the far right every year.[5] A recent example are the three men from Illinois who were charged with a mosque bombing, one of the men drafted a border wall plan for Trump.[6] I'll include this small excerpt from an article by USA Today, I implore everyone to read how far right terrorism is rapidly accelerating in America. This all occurred in a single week in May of 2017 and yet President Trump is still waiting for all the facts before he does anything.[7]


• May 20 – Richard Collins III, an African American and Bowie State University student, was stabbed to death by Sean Urbanski, a member of a Facebook group called the "Alt-Reich: Nation."

• May 26 – Three men in Portland tried to stop white supremacist Jeremy Christian from harassing two women who appeared to be Muslim. For their bravery, the three men were viciously attacked; two were murdered and the third was seriously injured.

• May 27 – Anthony Hammond was arrested in Clearlake, Calif. for allegedly stabbing a black man with a machete, after yelling racial slurs. While en route to the Lake County Jail, Hammond threatened to kill the transporting officer and his family once he was released. Hammond was charged with committing a hate crime, among other charges.

• May 28 – Two Native American men in Washington State were run over by a pickup truck driven by a white man shouting racial slurs and war whoops. One of the tribal members was killed and the other hospitalized.

Recently a Trump supporter[8] mailed over a dozen real bombs[9] to President Trump's perceived "enemies."[10] The President has incited violence and continues to do so, the President tweeted this earlier today;[11]

references

1) CBS - Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic And Political Climate Fueling Resurgence In Radicalization And Recruitment.

2) Reuters - Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam - sources

3) New York Times - The Growing Right-Wing Terror Threat

4) Government Accountability Office - COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM; Actions Needed to Define Strategy and Assess Progress of Federal Efforts, Pg. 28, Appendix II: Violent Extremist Attacks in the United States that Resulted in Fatalities, September 12, 2001 through December 31, 2016

5) PBS - U.S. sees 300 violent attacks inspired by far right every year

6) Chicago Tribune - 3 Illinois men, including one who drafted a border wall plan for Trump, charged with Minnesota mosque bombing

7) USA Today - President Trump wants 'the facts' on right-wing extremism. Here they are.

8) Fox News - Pipe bomb suspect, tracked with DNA and social media posts, was spinning records as FBI closed in

9) Roll Call - FBI: Mail Bombs Were ‘Not Hoax Devices’

10) PK lists 20 sources of the President's attacks against his political opponents and how he has incited violence against his them

11) President Trump's Twitter

much thanks to my Canadian hero for keeping track of Americas government disaster

[DRoseDARs]

1. I'm having trouble imagining a less likely thing happening thn the GOP "doing something" about King.

Ain't shit going to happen to him until he decides not to seek reelection. A Republican congress would impeach Trump before then (actually possible since they have a more stable replacement in Pencebot 5000).

[Sunlei]

2. keep resisting and exposing those RW cancers to the light. roaches hate to be seen.

[Mersky]

3. Clutch move to sink King

Yeah, I just gave $10 to his Dem opponent. Is it a good use of money? Who cares... I'm sick of his crap.

That's to Scholten. Iowa's 04

[Sunlei]

4. USA needs less white nationalists & supremacy sympathize(R)s in this administration

white nationalist and supremacy sympathizers in this administration such as Gorka[2] and Bannon,[3] while continuing to have the likes of Stephen Miller[4] in the White House it only further emboldens the White Supremacists and racists. We need less domestic terrorist attacks in America.

REF.

2) Times of Israel - Top Trump aide wears medal of Hungarian Nazi collaborators

3) The Guardian - Q&A: What are Trump and the White House's links to the far right?

4) Politifact - Are there white nationalists in the White House?

[marble falls]

5. Damned good news, damned good commentary!

[Sunlei]

6. Thank you. I'm recently educated in the power of reference use in 'social media' post comments

[marble falls]

7. You've done well. Woke me right up.

[Achilleaze]

8. But King is a republican family values role model

No way will republicans kick him out. He is what Latter Day republicanism is. Sad.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. He's been at it for a long time

but it is good that he is FINALLY getting some focus on his vileness.

Expel Steve King from Congress
Crooked Media / Oct.18.18
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Crooked Media

Our political system has a Steve King problem. Everyone who works in American politics knows that Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is an unrepentant white nationalist, but most don’t seem to care, and the people who do care have found it impossible to make those who control his fate—party leaders in Washington and marquee media in particular impose accountability on him, or even treat his odious views with the alarm they deserve.

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By January, though, Democrats will have a new arrow in their quiver. If King wins re-election, Democrats can channel outrage over King’s good standing in the GOP into an effort to expel him from Congress. It’s right there in the Constitution. “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.” Emphasis added.

As well positioned as Democrats are to retake the House in November, they’re not well positioned to control two-thirds of all seats. But the majority controls the floor, and if Democrats win, that means they can move to expel King, and force Republicans to vote on whether they stand with neo-Nazis and white nationalists, or with basic decency. Right now Paul Ryan is protecting them from that vote, but the GOP leadership will be irrelevant if the speaker is a Democrat.

Other House Republicans are detestable racists, but King stands alone in aligning himself with eliminationist elements of the global far right—with people who see the most terrible human-rights abuses as valid tools of preserving white-ethnic purity. Expelling a member of Congress is an extraordinary step, and King has demonstrated the kind of extraordinary behavior and rhetoric that makes him the perfect candidate for expulsion. Democrats should make that an early goal of their next majority.

https://crooked.com/articles/expel-steve-king-from-congress/