The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated
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More than Lindsey Graham is doing. He said he was "done" with Trump, but then got on the plane with him to go to Texas.
The chinless cnut is powerful enough to sway enough votes, I assume?
Turtle is probably the greatest GOP senator in modern history if you look at it from a GOP pov. He has used Trump and now throws him under the bus. He fecking ruthless.
Definitely. Half the senate is under McConnell’s spell.
I hope it's liver disease.
Mitch McConnell, welcome to the resistance.
I guess you could look at it like that, but he has also now overseen the Democrats gaining the Presidency and both chambers of Congress. It also remains to be seen what the consequences are of going against Trump. Half the base might rebel on him.
Imagine, from a conservative POV, choosing Trump over McConnell. It could happen though!
No. No. No. No. No. I hate that this myth is going around. He literally accomplished nothing legislatively. His only two "victories" are obstructing everything Obama tried to do and pushing through a ton of ultra conservative judges. That's it. If that is a good senate leader than sure, but the job of the Senate is to make laws. He actively prevented his Senate from doing so, no matter the letter after the presidents name.
The judges thing is massive tbf
LBJ would have had Mitch quivering inside two minutes.
Johnson was master of the Senate.
Johnson was master of the Senate.
He has been effective at his job, though he is no Newt Gingrich in terms of destroying the country via one of the branches of Congress.
"Associates say" a lot of things.If he actually convenes an emergency session of Senate before the 19th, then its on.
Never trust Mitch McConnell, a fundamental truth of the universe.
Oh, nice guy. We are supposed to say RIP and all that bullshit, right?
Dunno how this will affect the balance of evilness though. With him checking out (and also one of the Koch brothers), this probably mean that Mercers are the most powerful donors to GOP. And they are batshit crazy!
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So, is he going to look to bring forward the trial so that Trump can actually be removed before the 20th?
Of course. I think most GOP senators who won't have elections till 2024 would go with it. And McConnell is highly respected, the GOP senators do whatever he says (except a few).
I believe that he cannot do it. The Senate is already in recess, and I think needs unanimous support to stop the recess. That is what I read, at least.
Watching CNN earlier and as long as Majority and Minority leaders agree they can call them back. Legislation changed in 2004 I think it was.
That would be cool. Removing Trump and banning him for being able to get elected in the future, it would be great.
It probably doesn't matter cause he wouldn't win in 4 years anyway, but it would be disgracing him which he more than deserves.
I doubt he would actually run (if healthy and not in prison). Rather, would use the potential of a future campaign to retain as much media attention - and make as much money - as possible.
LCWTTR
Wow it really feels like the GOP are finding their courage, coincidentally after Trump can no longer tweet and with eight days left of his Presidency.
Pretty strong statement tbf.
I am still bitter that these are the same people who pledged to obstruct every nominee and all the legislation of Hillary Clinton because she had another email account.
It’s almost certainly due to pressure from donors.
Of course the GOP intends on turning its back on trump when corporate donors draw the line.
Its not that easy, his base doesn't care bout some donors.
When you mess with the bull you get the horns and unfortunately that's now not only a Democrat problem it's very much a GOP problem.
I'm sure they'll be careful to allow juuuust enough Senators to cross over to say "look, we took this real serious" for their re-election campaigns, but not enough to convict.
Sure, but anyone who was a cnut with a spine could have pulled that off. For me the real mark of a Senate titan is the ability to push legislation through. He has not done that, at all, even when R's controlled the House and Pres.
The base are fickle morons who will care about what they’re told to care about in less than a year. The donors run the party.
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I cant see most of the magas voting for another R unless trump explicitly tells them too. Hopefully it does not happen but I really can see him keeping the grift going.
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