Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) released the following statement as the United States conducts military strikes on Iran and President Trump issues grave new threats:.

"Over the past several days, the President of the United States has posted statements that are unhinged and untethered to reality.  Over the past few years, we have gotten used to seeing rambling, incoherent posts on his personal, for-profit social media platform, and have worried about their content and about the conduct of United States policy—domestic and foreign—through this medium. 

“Today one thing is clear: We cannot ignore them.  The President’s statements are not only unhinged, they are dangerous: an escalation not only in rhetoric but in the real-world consequences.  The President appears to be threatening to take actions that would not only violate international law and long-standing rules of war, he is threatening to take actions that would make the United States unrecognizable to its own citizens.

“I call on Speaker Mike Johnson to call the House of Representatives back to Washington to conduct oversight of this war and address the Constitutional issues that the President’s unhinged statements make clear.  I call on all members of the Congress to remember and uphold their sworn oath to the Constitution of the United States of America.  And I call on the President’s Cabinet to do the same.”