Dem lawmaker calls Trump ‘eunuch in chief’ over response to Russia meddling

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) slammed President Trump’s response to Russia’s election meddling in a tweet on Sunday, calling the president the “eunuch in chief.”

“He is owned by Russia and the USA doesn’t have a commander in chief in this Information war! we have been attacked and we have a eunuch in chief!” Cohen tweeted, using the term referring to a castrated man.

Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now, via @nytimes codeRed alert.He is owned by Russia and the USA doesn’t have a commander in chief in this Information war! we have been attacked and we have a eunuch in chief! https://t.co/GIcHGKUYu6

— Steve Cohen (@RepCohen) February 18, 2018

Cohen’s comment was tweeted along with a New York Times op-ed in which columnist Thomas Friedman argued the president is either too compromised or too incompetent to respond to Russia amid the allegations of election tampering.

The Tennessee congressman has ripped Trump as “the most despicable human being ever” to serve as president, and announced last year he would introduce articles of impeachment against Trump after the president’s response to the racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Va., last year. {mosads}

Cohen’s comment comes after Trump issued a series of tweets over the weekend tearing into the federal and congressional probes into Russia’s election meddling. 

“If it was the GOAL of Russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the U.S. then, with all of the Committee Hearings, Investigations and Party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams,” Trump tweeted. “They are laughing their asses off in Moscow. Get smart America!”

If it was the GOAL of Russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the U.S. then, with all of the Committee Hearings, Investigations and Party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They are laughing their asses off in Moscow. Get smart America!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2018

The president also implied that the FBI failed to act on warnings about Nikolas Cruz, who officials say shot and killed 17 people at a south Florida high school last week, because the bureau was too wrapped up in the Russia investigation. 

Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign – there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2018

Special counsel Robert Mueller announced the indictments of over a dozen Russians in the federal probe on Friday, fanning the flames of the already hotly debated investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Other lawmakers also criticized Trump for his refusal to condemn Russia following the indictments, such as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).

After Trump mentioned Schiff in one of his tweets over the weekend, the Democratic lawmaker fired back at the president, asking: “If [H.R.] McMaster can stand up to Putin, why can’t you?” Schiff was referring to Trump’s national security adviser, who over the weekend said the recent indictments show that Russia’s election meddling “is now incontrovertible.”