Mfume, who stepped down as NAACP president because of sexual harassment, made a seamless transition from the topic of the hearing to criticizing Donald Trump, who, as opposed to Hunter, James, and Joe Biden, is facing legal consequences for his actual and imagined shenanigans.

“This is what irritates me. These criticisms of the Dept. of Justice, the FBI, and the IRS as being in any way anti US institutions bother me. These organizations maintain this democracy’s stability and forward motion (his speech briefly devolves into gibberish, so the translation of ‘forward’ may be inaccurate.) The checks and balances are provided by them.”

You can actually be grateful to the man once you get past the initial shock and outrage that someone who is a member of the House of Representatives, the branch of the government that is closest to the American people, could assert that the DOJ, FBI, and IRS are components of our system of balance and checks and that their function is “keeping this democracy in check.”