Republican Rep To Trump: “Just Stop Spreading this Unfounded Conspiracy Theory. It Will Destroy Us.”

It sure does seem like the world is coming crashing down around the U.S. president:

Washington (CNN) Retired Adm. William McRaven said Thursday that the US is under attack from President Donald Trump, who he believes is working to “destroy” the country from “within” and “without.”

“If you want to destroy an organization, any organization, you destroy it from within, you destroy it from without and then what you do is you convince everybody that you’re doing the right thing,” McRaven told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.”

“So when you take a look at what the President has done, he’s undermined the intelligence community, the law enforcement community, the Department of Justice, the State Department. He has called the press the enemy of the American people and I will tell you, I’ve fought a lot of America’s enemies. The press is not the enemy of the American people.”

McRaven, who oversaw the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, added that Trump is also “undermining us from without.”

“He’s obviously left our allies the Kurds on the battlefield,” McRaven said while outlining a scathing op-ed he wrote for The New York Times. “We feel like we’ve betrayed them. He’s undermined our NATO allies, he’s taken us out of the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran nuclear agreement) and really the international community has lost faith in America. And then throughout the course of all of this, he’s convinced us he’s doing it for all the right reasons, and I think that is really what is troubling.”

Yes, he had convinced 40% of Americans at a certain point, but what about now? It seems like every day, Trump does something so outrageous that it makes it that much harder for congressional Republicans to stand behind him.

Recently it was the allegation of murder against political rival Joe Scarborough. Now a Republican congressman has pleaded with Trump to stop “creating paranoia” by spreading a false murder conspiracy theory about an MSNBC host.

The intervention by Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger on Sunday came just hours after the U.S. president tweeted for the sixth time this month about the baseless claims. See Twitter exchange at right.

My advice for Mr. Kinzinger: When you say, “It will kill us,” you need to realize that Trump couldn’t care less about “us.” What happens to you, your party, the country, or the world as a whole is a matter of complete indifference to Trump, a man whose only care is for himself.

In any case, right now, this presidency is on track to end in a whimper, where a rising tide in the U.S. Congress and the people they represent recognize that Trump is mentally ill, and gradually withdraw support, most of them trying to pretend that Trump never had their support in the first place.

Though his presidency may be on track to end in a whimper, of course, no one believes that it will. When Trump realizes that he’s about to go down, and be opened up for an incredibly wide range of criminal charges, you’ll see a bang the likes of which have never been experienced in human history.