It's not over ... In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of fear

[Dragonlady]

I'm sure it wasn't fear of them being treated the way that Romney is now being treated by the howling cultists.

We’ve always hated Romney, just like John Mc-shit-stain. Two “moderates” always bending over backwards to appease the lunatics on the left. Both were utterly worthless when it came to pushing conservative ideas and policies.

The American public is DONE with failed conservative policies. Republicans are still pushing "trickle down" even though it's not working. It didn't work under Reagan, which even Reagan acknowledged. That's why he raised taxes. It didn't work under W, and it sure as hell isn't working under Trump.

When all you have is discredited economic policies, it's hard to win elections, so Trumpists are pushing "fear". Fear of immigrants, fear of socialists, fear of the media, fear of institutions.

Reagan raised income taxes? No. He raise FICA taxes because the programs were going bankrupt. The rich don't pay FICA taxes past a certain limit.

I realize that Reagan didn't raise ALL of the taxes he cut, but he is did realize that the income wasn't "trickling down". The only things the tax cuts and deficit spending did was to make the stock market more volatile, and increase poverty.

 

[The Original Tree]

I'm sure it wasn't fear of them being treated the way that Romney is now being treated by the howling cultists.

We’ve always hated Romney, just like John Mc-shit-stain. Two “moderates” always bending over backwards to appease the lunatics on the left. Both were utterly worthless when it came to pushing conservative ideas and policies.

The American public is DONE with failed conservative policies. Republicans are still pushing "trickle down" even though it's not working. It didn't work under Reagan, which even Reagan acknowledged. That's why he raised taxes. It didn't work under W, and it sure as hell isn't working under Trump.

When all you have is discredited economic policies, it's hard to win elections, so Trumpists are pushing "fear". Fear of immigrants, fear of socialists, fear of the media, fear of institutions.

Reagan raised income taxes? No. He raise FICA taxes because the programs were going bankrupt. The rich don't pay FICA taxes past a certain limit.

I realize that Reagan didn't raise ALL of the taxes he cut, but he is did realize that the income wasn't "trickling down". The only things the tax cuts and deficit spending did was to make the stock market more volatile, and increase poverty.

Deroy Murdock: Democrats, Trump is giving America the economy you claim to want – Be honest and say thanks

 

[depotoo]

They fear slander, scorn, and mockery from Donald Trump and fear the Trump howling mob.

It's true. GOP Senators handed their testicles to the cloakroom attendant on the way to the Senate impeachment.

Then they lost their will and their way and have stumbled into the wilderness like sheep led by Judas goat Mitch McConnell.

The question now is whether there will be more revelations that will exemplify the cowardice of the GOP Senators in the face of compelling evidence of impeachable offenses by Donald Trump.

How much evidence and exposure of Trump's dirty deeds is yet to emerge?

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

By Sherrod Brown
Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.

Feb. 5, 2020

In the United States Senate, like in many spheres of life, fear does the business.

Think back to the fall of 2002, just a few weeks before that year’s crucial midterm elections, when the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq was up for a vote. A year after the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of members of the House and the Senate were about to face the voters of a country still traumatized by terrorism.

Senator Patty Murray, a thoughtful Democrat from Washington State, still remembers “the fear that dominated the Senate leading up to the Iraq war.”

“You could feel it then,” she told me, “and you can feel that fear now” — chiefly among Senate Republicans.

For those of us who, from the start, questioned the wisdom of the Iraq war, our sense of isolation surely wasn’t much different from the loneliness felt in the 1950s by Senator Herbert Lehman of New York, who confronted Joe McCarthy’s demagogy only to be abandoned by so many of his colleagues. Nor was it so different from what Senator George McGovern must have felt when he announced his early opposition to the Vietnam War and was then labeled a traitor by many inside and outside of Congress.

... Robert Kennedy spoke of how “moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle.” ...

...Fear has a way of bending us.

Late in the evening on day four of the trial I saw it, just 10 feet across the aisle from my seat at Desk 88, when Mr. Schiff told the Senate: “CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that Republican senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’” The response from Republicans was immediate and furious. Several groaned and protested and muttered, “Not true.” But pike or no pike, Mr. Schiff had clearly struck a nerve. (In the words of Lizzo: truth hurts.)

Of course, the Republican senators who have covered for Mr. Trump love what he delivers for them. But Vice President Mike Pence would give them the same judges, the same tax cuts, the same attacks on workers’ rights and the environment. So that’s not really the reason for their united chorus of “not guilty.”

For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator. They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like “Low Energy Jeb” and “Lyin’ Ted,” or that he might tweet about their disloyalty. Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary. They worry:

“Will the hosts on Fox attack me?”

“Will the mouthpieces on talk radio go after me?”

“Will the Twitter trolls turn their followers against me?”

My colleagues know they all just might. There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe. In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit. They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know this president has done things Richard Nixon never did. And they know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.

So watching the mental contortions they perform to justify their votes is painful to behold: They claim that calling witnesses would have meant a never-ending trial. They tell us they’ve made up their minds, so why would we need new evidence? They say to convict this president now would lead to the impeachment of every future president — as if every president will try to sell our national security to the highest bidder.

I have asked some of them, “If the Senate votes to acquit, what will you do to keep this president from getting worse?” Their responses have been shrugs and sheepish looks.

They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid. We all want to think that we always stand up for right and fight against wrong. But history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election. They might claim fealty to their cause — those tax cuts — but often it’s a simple attachment to power that keeps them captured.

As Senator Murray said on the Senate floor in 2002, “We can act out of fear” or “we can stick to our principles.” Unfortunately, in this Senate, fear has had its way. In November, the American people will have theirs.

Your post has to be the highest funnies applied to it I have seen here. Congrats!

 

[depotoo]

The facts, anonymous sources, the NYT’s and this at the end of the opinion piece-

Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown), a Democrat, is the senior United States senator from Ohio and is the author of “Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America.”


No agenda there now, right? Lol. Such pure unadulterated bullcrap from the NYT and the Dems once again.

 

[Billiejeens]

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

Not a single relevant quote, not a shred of evidence. Pure slanderous garbage.

Someone should burn down the building.

A sad Democratic Senator wrote an opinion piece critical of Republicans?

SHOCK.

 

[Anathema]

When all you have is discredited economic policies, it's hard to win elections, so Trumpists are pushing "fear". Fear of immigrants, fear of socialists, fear of the media, fear of institutions.

What you fail to understand is that most of us are not voting based on the Economy. We’re voting on Socisl Issues, Values, etc...

 

[Vastator]

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

Not a single relevant quote, not a shred of evidence. Pure slanderous garbage.

Someone should burn down the building.

It is well that elected officials fear the population that allows them to serve our nation.

 

[Billiejeens]

They fear slander, scorn, and mockery from Donald Trump and fear the Trump howling mob.

It's true. GOP Senators handed their testicles to the cloakroom attendant on the way to the Senate impeachment.

Then they lost their will and their way and have stumbled into the wilderness like sheep led by Judas goat Mitch McConnell.

The question now is whether there will be more revelations that will exemplify the cowardice of the GOP Senators in the face of compelling evidence of impeachable offenses by Donald Trump.

How much evidence and exposure of Trump's dirty deeds is yet to emerge?

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

By Sherrod Brown
Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.

Feb. 5, 2020

In the United States Senate, like in many spheres of life, fear does the business.

Think back to the fall of 2002, just a few weeks before that year’s crucial midterm elections, when the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq was up for a vote. A year after the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of members of the House and the Senate were about to face the voters of a country still traumatized by terrorism.

Senator Patty Murray, a thoughtful Democrat from Washington State, still remembers “the fear that dominated the Senate leading up to the Iraq war.”

“You could feel it then,” she told me, “and you can feel that fear now” — chiefly among Senate Republicans.

For those of us who, from the start, questioned the wisdom of the Iraq war, our sense of isolation surely wasn’t much different from the loneliness felt in the 1950s by Senator Herbert Lehman of New York, who confronted Joe McCarthy’s demagogy only to be abandoned by so many of his colleagues. Nor was it so different from what Senator George McGovern must have felt when he announced his early opposition to the Vietnam War and was then labeled a traitor by many inside and outside of Congress.

... Robert Kennedy spoke of how “moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle.” ...

...Fear has a way of bending us.

Late in the evening on day four of the trial I saw it, just 10 feet across the aisle from my seat at Desk 88, when Mr. Schiff told the Senate: “CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that Republican senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’” The response from Republicans was immediate and furious. Several groaned and protested and muttered, “Not true.” But pike or no pike, Mr. Schiff had clearly struck a nerve. (In the words of Lizzo: truth hurts.)

Of course, the Republican senators who have covered for Mr. Trump love what he delivers for them. But Vice President Mike Pence would give them the same judges, the same tax cuts, the same attacks on workers’ rights and the environment. So that’s not really the reason for their united chorus of “not guilty.”

For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator. They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like “Low Energy Jeb” and “Lyin’ Ted,” or that he might tweet about their disloyalty. Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary. They worry:

“Will the hosts on Fox attack me?”

“Will the mouthpieces on talk radio go after me?”

“Will the Twitter trolls turn their followers against me?”

My colleagues know they all just might. There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe. In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit. They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know this president has done things Richard Nixon never did. And they know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.

So watching the mental contortions they perform to justify their votes is painful to behold: They claim that calling witnesses would have meant a never-ending trial. They tell us they’ve made up their minds, so why would we need new evidence? They say to convict this president now would lead to the impeachment of every future president — as if every president will try to sell our national security to the highest bidder.

I have asked some of them, “If the Senate votes to acquit, what will you do to keep this president from getting worse?” Their responses have been shrugs and sheepish looks.

They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid. We all want to think that we always stand up for right and fight against wrong. But history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election. They might claim fealty to their cause — those tax cuts — but often it’s a simple attachment to power that keeps them captured.

As Senator Murray said on the Senate floor in 2002, “We can act out of fear” or “we can stick to our principles.” Unfortunately, in this Senate, fear has had its way. In November, the American people will have theirs.

GOP= SPINELESS

I laugh at you idiots.

 

[Billiejeens]

These people admitted, before the vote, that they intended to violate the oaths that they took to serve as an impartial jury. Then they voted for no witnesses or evidence to appear before them, as would occur in a fair and impartial trial. The evidence was there, but they actively refused to hear it.

Again, republicans, this is what you chose to do, which is a good illustration of why I will never cast a vote for a republican candidate.

Were you in a coma?
The dems presented all the evidence that they had
The Senate voted not to add non deposed, not interviewed witnesses.
Recap:
Normal witnesses, yes
Additional witnesses, no.

 

[Billiejeens]

They fear slander, scorn, and mockery from Donald Trump and fear the Trump howling mob.

It's true. GOP Senators handed their testicles to the cloakroom attendant on the way to the Senate impeachment.

Then they lost their will and their way and have stumbled into the wilderness like sheep led by Judas goat Mitch McConnell.

The question now is whether there will be more revelations that will exemplify the cowardice of the GOP Senators in the face of compelling evidence of impeachable offenses by Donald Trump.

How much evidence and exposure of Trump's dirty deeds is yet to emerge?

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

By Sherrod Brown
Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.

Feb. 5, 2020

In the United States Senate, like in many spheres of life, fear does the business.

Think back to the fall of 2002, just a few weeks before that year’s crucial midterm elections, when the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq was up for a vote. A year after the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of members of the House and the Senate were about to face the voters of a country still traumatized by terrorism.

Senator Patty Murray, a thoughtful Democrat from Washington State, still remembers “the fear that dominated the Senate leading up to the Iraq war.”

“You could feel it then,” she told me, “and you can feel that fear now” — chiefly among Senate Republicans.

For those of us who, from the start, questioned the wisdom of the Iraq war, our sense of isolation surely wasn’t much different from the loneliness felt in the 1950s by Senator Herbert Lehman of New York, who confronted Joe McCarthy’s demagogy only to be abandoned by so many of his colleagues. Nor was it so different from what Senator George McGovern must have felt when he announced his early opposition to the Vietnam War and was then labeled a traitor by many inside and outside of Congress.

... Robert Kennedy spoke of how “moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle.” ...

...Fear has a way of bending us.

Late in the evening on day four of the trial I saw it, just 10 feet across the aisle from my seat at Desk 88, when Mr. Schiff told the Senate: “CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that Republican senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’” The response from Republicans was immediate and furious. Several groaned and protested and muttered, “Not true.” But pike or no pike, Mr. Schiff had clearly struck a nerve. (In the words of Lizzo: truth hurts.)

Of course, the Republican senators who have covered for Mr. Trump love what he delivers for them. But Vice President Mike Pence would give them the same judges, the same tax cuts, the same attacks on workers’ rights and the environment. So that’s not really the reason for their united chorus of “not guilty.”

For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator. They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like “Low Energy Jeb” and “Lyin’ Ted,” or that he might tweet about their disloyalty. Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary. They worry:

“Will the hosts on Fox attack me?”

“Will the mouthpieces on talk radio go after me?”

“Will the Twitter trolls turn their followers against me?”

My colleagues know they all just might. There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe. In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit. They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know this president has done things Richard Nixon never did. And they know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.

So watching the mental contortions they perform to justify their votes is painful to behold: They claim that calling witnesses would have meant a never-ending trial. They tell us they’ve made up their minds, so why would we need new evidence? They say to convict this president now would lead to the impeachment of every future president — as if every president will try to sell our national security to the highest bidder.

I have asked some of them, “If the Senate votes to acquit, what will you do to keep this president from getting worse?” Their responses have been shrugs and sheepish looks.

They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid. We all want to think that we always stand up for right and fight against wrong. But history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election. They might claim fealty to their cause — those tax cuts — but often it’s a simple attachment to power that keeps them captured.

As Senator Murray said on the Senate floor in 2002, “We can act out of fear” or “we can stick to our principles.” Unfortunately, in this Senate, fear has had its way. In November, the American people will have theirs.

And despite the lying title note this afmisdion...”They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid. ”

They are afraid to show they are afraid. That's the nature of lip-service patriots.

Or they simply adhered to The Constitution.

 

[Billiejeens]

When all you have is discredited economic policies, it's hard to win elections, so Trumpists are pushing "fear". Fear of immigrants, fear of socialists, fear of the media, fear of institutions.

What you fail to understand is that most of us are not voting based on the Economy. We’re voting on Socisl Issues, Values, etc...

A strong economy helps with everything though
The more people who can support themselves the better.
Tough times cause even good people to stray to lose their values, sometimes.

 

[Billiejeens]

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of fear…

I call bullshit.

How would Mr. Brown, whose absurd propaganda piece you're siting, know what anyone is saying in private?

Certain hoaxes have this rather obvious giveaway, that even if what is being reported were true, the one reporting it wouldn't know.

And amazingly, there are some people who are so unbelievably stupid, that they'll believe such reports, even with this obvious giveaway to them being false.

It has certainly agitated you enough to post some arrant nonsense in rebuttal.

Nobody doubts that GOP lawmakers fear Trump.

An intelligent person would say that they love President Trump.
He's made the country exponentially better, and he's done it as one of them, and shares the credit with them.

 

[miketx]

I'm sure it wasn't fear of them being treated the way that Romney is now being treated by the howling cultists.

Cultists redundancy check?

 

[Crixus]

They fear slander, scorn, and mockery from Donald Trump and fear the Trump howling mob.

It's true. GOP Senators handed their testicles to the cloakroom attendant on the way to the Senate impeachment.

Then they lost their will and their way and have stumbled into the wilderness like sheep led by Judas goat Mitch McConnell.

The question now is whether there will be more revelations that will exemplify the cowardice of the GOP Senators in the face of compelling evidence of impeachable offenses by Donald Trump.

How much evidence and exposure of Trump's dirty deeds is yet to emerge?

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

By Sherrod Brown
Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.

Feb. 5, 2020

In the United States Senate, like in many spheres of life, fear does the business.

Think back to the fall of 2002, just a few weeks before that year’s crucial midterm elections, when the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq was up for a vote. A year after the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of members of the House and the Senate were about to face the voters of a country still traumatized by terrorism.

Senator Patty Murray, a thoughtful Democrat from Washington State, still remembers “the fear that dominated the Senate leading up to the Iraq war.”

“You could feel it then,” she told me, “and you can feel that fear now” — chiefly among Senate Republicans.

For those of us who, from the start, questioned the wisdom of the Iraq war, our sense of isolation surely wasn’t much different from the loneliness felt in the 1950s by Senator Herbert Lehman of New York, who confronted Joe McCarthy’s demagogy only to be abandoned by so many of his colleagues. Nor was it so different from what Senator George McGovern must have felt when he announced his early opposition to the Vietnam War and was then labeled a traitor by many inside and outside of Congress.

... Robert Kennedy spoke of how “moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle.” ...

...Fear has a way of bending us.

Late in the evening on day four of the trial I saw it, just 10 feet across the aisle from my seat at Desk 88, when Mr. Schiff told the Senate: “CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that Republican senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’” The response from Republicans was immediate and furious. Several groaned and protested and muttered, “Not true.” But pike or no pike, Mr. Schiff had clearly struck a nerve. (In the words of Lizzo: truth hurts.)

Of course, the Republican senators who have covered for Mr. Trump love what he delivers for them. But Vice President Mike Pence would give them the same judges, the same tax cuts, the same attacks on workers’ rights and the environment. So that’s not really the reason for their united chorus of “not guilty.”

For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator. They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like “Low Energy Jeb” and “Lyin’ Ted,” or that he might tweet about their disloyalty. Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary. They worry:

“Will the hosts on Fox attack me?”

“Will the mouthpieces on talk radio go after me?”

“Will the Twitter trolls turn their followers against me?”

My colleagues know they all just might. There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe. In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit. They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know this president has done things Richard Nixon never did. And they know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.

So watching the mental contortions they perform to justify their votes is painful to behold: They claim that calling witnesses would have meant a never-ending trial. They tell us they’ve made up their minds, so why would we need new evidence? They say to convict this president now would lead to the impeachment of every future president — as if every president will try to sell our national security to the highest bidder.

I have asked some of them, “If the Senate votes to acquit, what will you do to keep this president from getting worse?” Their responses have been shrugs and sheepish looks.

They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid. We all want to think that we always stand up for right and fight against wrong. But history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election. They might claim fealty to their cause — those tax cuts — but often it’s a simple attachment to power that keeps them captured.

As Senator Murray said on the Senate floor in 2002, “We can act out of fear” or “we can stick to our principles.” Unfortunately, in this Senate, fear has had its way. In November, the American people will have theirs.

Yet it was one of your Bernie bro's who acted violently. And your heros in ANTIFA who beat up old lady's but no republicans. Only black democrats assaulting Jews in New Jersey, not trump supporters. Yup. America will have its say. Matter of fact, they are already talking. It will be fun rubbing your nose in four more years of Donald j trump.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I'm sure it wasn't fear of them being treated the way that Romney is now being treated by the howling cultists.

We’ve always hated Romney, just like John Mc-shit-stain. Two “moderates” always bending over backwards to appease the lunatics on the left. Both were utterly worthless when it came to pushing conservative ideas and policies.

The American public is DONE with failed conservative policies. Republicans are still pushing "trickle down" even though it's not working. It didn't work under Reagan, which even Reagan acknowledged. That's why he raised taxes. It didn't work under W, and it sure as hell isn't working under Trump.

When all you have is discredited economic policies, it's hard to win elections, so Trumpists are pushing "fear". Fear of immigrants, fear of socialists, fear of the media, fear of institutions.

Reagan raised income taxes? No. He raise FICA taxes because the programs were going bankrupt. The rich don't pay FICA taxes past a certain limit.

I realize that Reagan didn't raise ALL of the taxes he cut, but he is did realize that the income wasn't "trickling down". The only things the tax cuts and deficit spending did was to make the stock market more volatile, and increase poverty.

I was a young man in his 20s during Reagan's terms. Everyone did much better than Carter's days marked by the misery index. Why do you lie?

 

[task0778]

I wonder how many House democrats voted for impeachment out of fear.

 

[Anathema]

A strong economy helps with everything though. The more people who can support themselves the better.
Tough times cause even good people to stray to lose their values, sometimes.

If your valued can be changed by anything, you didn’t believe in them to begin with. If I can no longer support myself and my family it’s time to check out, permanently.

 

[Billiejeens]

A strong economy helps with everything though. The more people who can support themselves the better.
Tough times cause even good people to stray to lose their values, sometimes.

If your valued can be changed by anything, you didn’t believe in them to begin with. If I can no longer support myself and my family it’s time to check out, permanently.

I don't believe that to be true - but you are certainly welcome to see things in only black and white.

 

[flacaltenn]

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

Not a single relevant quote, not a shred of evidence. Pure slanderous garbage.

Someone should burn down the building.

Most USMB members can't read NYTimes links.. Please give the SOURCES for this story and whether it's an Op Ed or actual reporting...

WTF was their fear?? That that party VOTERS who nominate them didn't believe Trump deserved to be removed??? That's a whimpy argument... They work for US --- not the other way 'round..

 

[Coyote]

I'm sure it wasn't fear of them being treated the way that Romney is now being treated by the howling cultists.

Trump has also given them a lot of mone . He owns them. His swamp.