GOP leaders silent so far on Trump's call for 'termination' of Constitution's rules

The White House on Monday and some Republicans in Congress condemned former President Donald Trump's call for "termination" of the Constitution's rules -- while GOP congressional leaders kept silent on Trump's comment and Democrats demanded Republicans rebuke him. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, asked about Trump's comment, said she wanted to be "careful" about how she answered from the briefing room podium since Trump has declared his candidacy for 2024 but reminded that his own administration officials have called the 2020 election the most secure in American history. "It was also upheld by the Trump administration's attorney general, and by over 80 federal judges, [many] of whom were nominated by Donald Trump himself," she said. "And so in 2022, the American people came together, these past midterms, and utterly rejected the dangerous conspiracy that we have been hearing -- the big lie that we have been hearing from the former president, but also many Republicans." "The American people have been very clear," she added. "They oppose the way that Republicans have talked about this. They oppose the violent rhetoric that extreme MAGA officials have engaged in, and so we should listen to what the American people had to say just a couple

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