UPDATE, 6:23 p.m. Eastern: To offer a different interpretation, reader WKRP took the view that McQuade was not suggesting that President Trump be stripped of his citizenship, but that he be removed from office if he obtained the presidency via fraud. If indeed that's what McQuade meant, she found a roundabout means of saying so. But this writer acknowledges this as a plausible alternative interpretation of her remark.

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It's a commonplace for President Trump's antagonists to suggest that he be impeached, or prosecuted for crimes. So if a Trump hater wants to make headlines, she's going to have to come up with an ingenious new way in which the president can be punished.

Let us, accordingly, give Barbara McQuade credit. She's dreamed up a diabolical new device to make the President a pariah: strip him of his U.S. citizenship!

Appearing on Joy Reid's AM Joy on MSNBC this morning, McQuade, a former U.S. attorney appointed by Obama, said:

"When immigrants procure their citizenship by fraud, we strip them of their citizenship. When a President procures his presidency by fraud, should we consider doing the same?"

Jonathan Capehart, guest-hosting for Reid, concurred: "that's a very, very good point, Barbara."

McQuade was apparently referring to the fact that prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have asserted that President Trump was behind the payoffs Michael Cohen made to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

Question: What will the next Trump hater come up with to top McQuade's suggestion that President Trump be stripped of his citizenship? Tar-and-feathering? Riding out of town on a rail? Keel-hauling? I'm assuming drawing-and-quartering is off the table—at least for now.

Partial transcript below: