Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) suggested that people could “die” as a result of President Donald Trump accusing former President Barack Obama of treason.

Himes joined MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday where he argued that accusations from Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard against Obama could be the foundation for a new Jan. 6 Capitol riot-like event. Himes dismissed the claims from Trump and Gabbard as a “distraction” from fallout over the “Epstein Files.”

The lawmaker said:

What troubles me most about this, Nicolle, is that I’m standing in a spot that on January 6, 2021, was overrun by a violent mob intent on hanging the vice president and killing people like me, and it was all driven by a lie propagated by Donald Trump. And now we’re seeing that playbook again. And my only question is, when people like Tulsi Gabbard and Donald Trump accuse a president of a capital crime that is punishable by death, who is going to die? Who is going to die because they’ve decided that they need a distraction away from the Epstein calamity which they brought upon themselves?

Gabbard accused Obama and other officials in his administration of being involved in a “treasonous conspiracy” against Trump.

According to Gabbard, Obama and others used a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to target Trump and “subvert the will of the American voters.” Multiple intelligence agencies did determine Russia made efforts to influence the 2016 election. Gabbard has cited documents now claiming that Russia didn’t “have the tools, the capability, or the intent to try to change the outcome of the US presidential election.”

At the White House this week, Trump flat-out accused Obama of treason, something Himes said could provoke fringe people. The lawmaker predicted there will be no practical movement on prosecuting Obama or anyone else as prosecutors would be “laughed out” of courts.

He argued:

When you use language like treason, and I mean, go into my social media feeds because I’ve been trying to tell the truth about this ever since Tulsi put out this staggeringly disprovable and instantly disproval lie, when you start using the kind of language, the language of treason and of somebody being a traitor, some tiny percentage of the population is just crazy enough to decide that they need to do something about it. And again, it’s what happened where I am standing right now on January 6, 2021. The statements of a president have some power.

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