Rep. Peter Meijer slams GOP’s ‘treacherous snakes’ for ‘salivating for civil war’ – By Oralandar Brand-Williams (The Detroit News) / May 31 2021
Freshman Republican U.S. Rep. Pete Meijer appeared to blast some Trump conservatives as “treacherous snakes” in his Memorial Day observances on social media as the military veteran slammed those “salivating for civil war.”
Meijer, a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq as a non-commissioned officer and was a conflict analyst in Afghanistan, issued a three-tweet barrage Monday about the holiday. It included his “struggle with Memorial Day” due to “browing-beating from the holier-than-thous.”
But the 33-year-old congressman from Grand Rapids Township also acknowledged the sacrifices of veterans for whom Memorial Day holiday was created 50 years ago.
“Memories + knowledge that for too many it’s a reminder of a father, mother, wife, husband, son, daughter gone. Our shared obligation to make this nation worthy of their sacrifice,” Meijer tweeted.
“And then there are those who take this sacrifice for granted, waxing patriotic while salivating for civil war,” he continued. “Claiming they need to destroy the Republic in order to save it in the ultimate betrayal of oaths sworn. Those treacherous snakes can go straight to hell.”
