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Republicans criticize Trump’s call to suspend Constitution in wake of Twitter revelations

Republicans did not react positively Sunday to former President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. Constitution be suspended to overturn the 2020 election after it was revealed Twitter coordinated with the Biden campaign to suppress damaging information.

Some of the criticism came from the man poised to become the next chairman of the powerful House Intelligence Committee when the GOP takes control of the gavel in January.

“First of all, I vehemently disagree with the statement that Trump has made,” Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “Trump has made a thousand statements in which I disagree.