Steven Cheung, Donald Trump’s communications director, criticized Thursday the notion that Congress could prevent the new president from taking power, calling it a “threat to democracy.”

The Hill published an editorial headlined, “Congress has the power to stop Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now,” urging that those who took part in an insurrection against the Constitution be barred from taking power should be excluded.

“Oh, look. “The Democrats want to steal the election and invalidate the will of the American people,” Cheung wrote on X in response to the comment.

“Threat to democracy.”

“Here are two idiots inciting an insurrection… Remember the names: Congress has the power to stop Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now,” Chris LaCivita, a former Trump 2024 campaign adviser, also wrote.

“You guys are sick,” chimed in Trump’s middle son, Eric.

“Such a crazy thing for them to do. “The old media is just the propaganda arm of the radical left,” Trump ally Elon Musk wrote in response to the scion’s tweet.

The Hill article states that the 14th Amendment states: “No person shall…hold any office, civil or military, in the United States, or in any State having previously taken an oath…to support the Constitution of the United States.” “The United States has committed an insurrection or rebellion against them or has given aid or comfort to their enemies.”

The article argues that there are three points that prove Trump participated in an insurrection: Congress’s impeachment of him following his actions on January 6, the Colorado Supreme Court’s finding that he “participated in an insurrection.” “Insurrection” and the conclusions of the bipartisan investigation into the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

“The evidence that Donald Trump participated in such an insurrection is overwhelming,” argues the editorial, written by Evan A. Davis and David M. Schulte, two Democratic lawyers.

No member of Congress has commented on the change in recent weeks, but Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) had previously made the same argument as to why Trump should be disqualified.

“Well, absolutely, and we’ve said all along, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment makes a clear and unequivocal statement that anyone who has sworn an oath of office,” Raskin told CNN’s Dana Bash in 2023.

“And by the way, not just the President, but members of Congress and others who hold federal office, who engage in insurrection or rebellion and who have sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, can never again be federal – or serve in state office.” Office.”