I wonder if republicans really don't want trump on ballots. huckabee sanders is a leading candidate for the governor of AR. ivanka is a leading candidate for a senate seat in Florida. lara trump in north carolina. Seems the republican party is now controlled by donald trump and qanon. And more respected members of the republican party are getting out of politics. And once the republican senators acquit donald trump in the impeachment trial he will start doing campaign rallies again.
I read some thing (Internet thing, so maybe fake) some guys at the local airport were pissed at him for having the FAA shutdown air traffic during his mar-a-lago weekends so it was a labor of love. Could be bullshit though.
The battle for the soul of the Republican party to take it away from the MAGA terrorists and criminals ended over the weekend because - honestly nothing, they just mostly surrendered to the crazies and started griping about deficits or whatever. Cowards, all the way down.
In one way I see your point. The other side of me says f**k that Grifting con. I don't want him getting benefits for life from my tax dollars. I want him locked up for life personally.
2018 - Rs lost the House 2020 - Rs lost the Senate and the POTUS You might be able to make an argument that the Senate Rs in Maine, NC, Iowa, Montana and South Carolina benefited from a heavy Trump turnout. But those are all solid to lean R states. Arizona and Georgia would be the counter example. House and Senate Rs might be scared if Trump backs a QAnon primary challenger. Though if 2018 and the 2020 Georgia runoff are any gauge, Trump does not go all in, unless he i on the ballot. McConnell 100% does not want Trump in Rs politics going forward. If Trump stays perma-banned in Twitter et al, he just might not be all that relevant going forward.
rand paul believes a *republican* president of the United States should be allowed to break any law including inciting a riotous mob that attacks the capital with intent to kidnap and kill political figures and that resulted in five deaths including police officers.
It's amazing, isn't it? I mean, sure, Tuberville is a loon. Graham is somehow compromised. But 43 other US Senators: (1) don't care to hold someone accountable for provoking a dangerous insurrection at the Capitol; and (2) appear to want Trump to run in 2024 against all common sense or decency. Wow. SMH. We are in bad, bad trouble in this country and it reaffirms what a lot of us have been saying: Trump was just a symptom. Our fever broke but our national lungs still look like we've worked our lives in a Kentucky coal mine.
Postponing the start of the trial was by design. Evidence is piling up as we speak. It will be presented.
So all that vote your conscious by McConnell was bullshit and I'm not surprised. This is what I was concerned about with delaying the impeachment trial, you give these slippery ********ers time to think and get lobbied by Trump and Co. to acquit him without even looking at the evidence.
Since they don't believe in the validity of this impeachment trial, it would be fine if some portion of the 45 votes against it decided to stay home. In fact, if Pat Leahy decided to simply not count their votes on that basis (the legal basis for preemptively dismissing an impeachment is shaky, IIRC) , who is to stop him? THe Senate parliamentarian? Plus the party of fake grievances gets an actual grievance. And they are free of Trump 2024. Everybody's a winner!
The Dems will use the trial to put the available evidence in front of America. Even Fox will have to report it. I doubt any dip$hit supporters are reading WAPO or NYT.
Nah, the way the QAnon Sarlacc's Pit works is that something goes up on some crank-laden fake news website (e.g., Facebook) that invariably has some passing resemblance to a real news report then people post to chat rooms or whatever that "they've been hearing" something that is roughly based on it, larded up with a bunch of conspiracy clues and easter eggs It's all in good fun, until somebody gets bashed in the head with a fire extinguisher on the steps of teh Capitol.
Just listened to an NPR report, the populist wing is cranking up maximum pressure to acquit. A recall of Liz Cheney effort is underway in Wyoming. GOP Senators are much more concerned about their re-elections than they are justice. The only counter would be corporate donors. The GOP is in revolution and the populist are scarier than the governing wing
