Steve Schmidt Demands That Mitch McConnell Be Removed From Power

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/07/17/steve-schmidt-mitch-mcconnell-removed.html

Posted on Tue, Jul 17th, 2018 by Jason Easley
Steve Schmidt Demands That Mitch McConnell Be Removed From Power


Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt bluntly said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is up to his eyeballs in the Russia scandal and needs to be removed from power.

Video @ link:

Schmidt said on MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle:

Now, let’s talk about what Trump did. Not about what the motives are. What his comportment was. But for the first time in the history of the United States, you have an American president who is absolutely unwilling to defend the country from a hostile foreign power that has attacked it. He is faithless to his oath of office. When we watched Jeff flake and you watch Olympia Snowe and Ben Sasse and a couple of others. What we know for sure is that the Congress under this Republican control is as feckless to American ideas, to the Constitution, to the country, as Donald Trump is. And so Jeff Flake and Snowe and Sasse and all the rest of them can say disgraceful, bad, terrible, but they actually have the power to do something about it. This is an extraordinary moment, and the Congress is absolutely unwilling to exert oversight over this president.

So Sasse and Snowe and Flake have it in their power to cut a deal with the Democrats to put subpoena power into the hands of responsible senators, many of whom may be members of the Democratic Party, but to remove Mitch Mcconnell from power, who’s up in this up to his eyeballs as well. As he was informed before the election that the Russians were meddling by President Obama and refused to take any action on it as well. But we will never, and I mean never again, see an American president perform so weakly, so incompetently on the world stage next to an adversary. Just an extraordinary debasement of the office. A personal disgrace for trump. And a national humiliation for the United States.

Trump’s Russia scandal is a Republican Party scandal

As we have been writing for years, at PoliticusUSA, Mitch McConnell is the reason why the Russians were not stopped in a bipartisan way during the 2016 election. McConnell refused to work with Obama on a bipartisan statement and resolution on the Russian election attack.

Obama didn’t issue a unilateral, because a unilateral statement would have immediately been used as a partisan weapon by Republicans and the Russians. The indictment yesterday of a Russian agent who was working with the NRA demonstrates that the Republican Party has been taken over by Putin. The Russians had been working for years to infiltrate the Republican Party.

Steve Schmidt was spot on. Mitch McConnell and the Republicans in Congress are a huge part of the problem. Mitch McConnell is compromised, as is the rest of the Republican leadership who are protecting Trump, and as a matter of national security, they all must be removed from power.

[brucefan]

1. Olympia Snowe?

[babylonsister]

2. He must have meant Collins?

[calimary]

42. Yeah. Undoubtedly that's who he meant.

Olympia Snowe got outta Dodge awhile back. Moderate Republican Senator from Maine, 1995-2013. Retired, succeeded by Angus King, an Independent.

[maxrandb]

6. I've been trying for a long time to find someone who

is more worthless than Susan Collins...no luck

[SleeplessinSoCal]

47. Rand Paul? n/t

[CrispyQ]

3. I believe that if they take down Trump & leave McConnell, we're still fucked.

This whole presidency should be declared illegitimate & everything they've done, reversed. Would that there were a mechanism in place to do that. The damage they've done in a year and a half has been staggering & will take decades to repair, if they were stopped right now. If the dems don't gain control of at least one chamber & apply the brakes to some of this madness we won't recognize our government by 2020.

We are on a precipice & could topple either way.

[vi5]

18. Especially with President Pence...

....No, if Trump is impeached or removed from office a Democrat does not become president.

[BigmanPigman]

28. I have been saying the same thing...

we need to go back to before the election and have a re-vote since tons of people vote down ballot and that is why so many are in the majority now. That would erase every single policy, decision and law from the moron and his admin, the SCOTUS since for such is illegitimate, and both chambers of Congress.

[Honeycombe8]

41. It's both. Trump & the Repubs in Congress were in cahoots together. And nw the S.Ct.? nt

[Haggis for Breakfast]

45. Remember folks

Bitch McConnell is up for re-election this November. Who is running against him on the Dem ticket ? We could support that person with $$$, with rallies, with volunteers, with signs, with anything we can muster.

[dem in texas]

4. Shake a Republican Tree & a Russian Falls Out

Russians helped write the Platform at the Republican Convention
Russians donated to the NRA
Russians donated to Mitch McConnell's Super Pac
Russian were at Trumps inauguration
Russians helped fund the CPAC conference
Russian were at the Prayer Breakfast!

[Raster]

9. You are correct! This is NOT HYPERBOLE...

...The GOP is literally awash in Russian dirty money. Comrade McConnell is up to his turtle eyeballs in Russian borscht.

[dchill]

17. Russians hacked the RNC, too. Nothing from WikiLeaks.

Where's THAT dump?

[FakeNoose]

30. It's Kompromat

At this point, anything can be Kompromat. Trump's dick pics are Kompromat.

[dchill]

35. Those are on microfilm.

[House of Roberts]

36. No, that was just regular size film.

The image made it APPEAR to be microfilm.

[dchill]

40. Or possibly a Shrinky Dinks malfunction.

[Duppers]

25. +1000

[FM123]

53. Yes!

"Mitch McConnell was the top recipient of Blavatnik's donations, collecting $2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund under the names of two of Blavatnik's holding companies, Access Industries and AI Altep Holdings, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org."

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/tangled-web-connects-russian-oligarch-money-gop-campaigns
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/12/15/putins-proxies-helped-funnel-millions-gop-campaigns

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. I'm beginning to lean towards an "aggressive" approach

to take out these shitstains versus the ballot box. I firmly believe if it was the other way around the goobers n gomers would be totally out of control at this point. I do not look forward to seeing what happens.

[MarcA]

7. If Trump and the rethugs make the 2018 elections a sham

through Kobach and his enforcers, you may regrettably see this occur.

[LiberalArkie]

11. Just look at all the crap that happened when a black man was elected. If a woman (any woman) would

have been elected all the crap going on would have continued. As a society, we are too racist, bigoted, misogynistic to accept a leader who is not a white man. I personally would have thought we were.

[Hamlette]

19. it wasn't because he was black, it was because he was a Dem

remember what they put Clinton through. They met the day after Clinton was elected in 1992 and set out a play to destroy his presidency. The investigations started soon thereafter. The entire presidency was consumed by "scandal". I remember hearing George Stephanopoulos recount how many times he was required to testify before congress. He laughed about how many parking tickets he got while doing so. And he was a relative bit player in the saga. Move On was born out of "just censure Bill and get on with it". It was exhausting.

Carter didn't fare any better. Some republicans still believe he was behind the kidnapping at the Iranian embassy. It was his idea, he planned it, everything.

And FDR. Republicans called him "that man in the White House". Refused to call him by his name or title.

Obama got off easy by republican standards.

[Juliusseizure]

43. Dems lack of aggression is a weakness

This is a constant source of frustration to me.

I have great respect for Steve Schmidt, but why can’t Schumer or Pelosi or someone in Congress lead in this aggressive manner.

Even Obama’s not unilaterally acting when it was the right thing to do is weak. It invites and encouraged bullying and intimidation.

I have to look at reels of FDR proclaiming “I welcome your hatred” as the last example of unabashed aggressive democratic leadership that cared not a wit about the reaction- because it was right.

[bdamomma]

8. McConnell needs to go.

he is an accomplice in this whole horrific incident. He has plenty of money he needs to resign or better go to prison.

[ancianita]

27. Absolutely. They can throw in his intent to obstruct the Garland nomination with everything else.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. First I've heard this penetrate thru to mainstream media. Yes, McCONnell has to go. He's complicit.

We've been saying for over 18 months that McCONman is complicit. It is satisfying to see that it has gained some mainstream validation.

[triron]

12. +1000

[Scarsdale]

13. McConnell KNEW the

fix was in. That is why he refused to even hold hearings on Merrick Garland, President Obama's choice for the Supreme Court. He insisted that the next president would fill that seat. He KNEW who that would be. If he as kept informed, then so was Pence and Ryan and many others, all with their hands out for Russian money.

[maddiemom]

14. A traitor since President Obama's 2012 inauguration. OOPS! Meant 2008

McConnell had no shame in announcing that he was focused on, NOT doing the job he was elected to do, but on seeing that "Obama is a one term president." THEN being as blatantly obstructionist as he could possibly get away with; and he got away with it ALL. Denying President Obama's rightful choice of a Supreme Court justice should never have been allowed. He could have blocked Garland in the traditional, constitutional way, but he had to show the POTUS his extreme and utter contempt. I'm sure Turtleman who have treated Hillary in the same way. He's just been lovin' his power, and it's doubtful that he ISN'T in Putin's pocket.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Yes, but 2008 Inauguration. One of about a dozen at that "One Term" meeting. . . . nt

[maddiemom]

16. Sorry, 2008 election; and I realize Mitch had a gang of followers and enablers

[RocRizzo55]

20. Technically...

Anyone who took money from the NRA took money from the Russians.
How about we find out who they are, and they get ousted?

Yeah, it more than likely will never happen, but I am just saying what we really have to do if we are to get to the bottom of this.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Schmidt is blunt

and that is called for at times like this, but he will change few minds. I'd hate to play chess with Mueller. Can't say the same for Steve Schmidt.

[FakeNoose]

32. On the other hand, McConnell should be easy pickings now

Even other traitors are talking about how guilty McConnell is, so it must be pretty bad.

[ancianita]

22. Congressional inaction on known treason is obstruction of justice. The FBI should charge the

majority party for obstruction of justice through breach of their oaths of office.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. Love it, but their oaths of office never mattered in the Merrick Garland case either

and I never understood why Dems didn't pursue it from that angle, it's what I ran with for 2 months after Mitch obstructed from day one. No one listened.

[ancianita]

24. I was with you all the way. I rec OP's like a sincere cheerleader around here.

[Duppers]

26. Bravo!

K&R

[SummerSnow]

29. Mitch: " Russian...better...not...do...it...again

[Alwaysna]

31. Tattooed with a red "T" on his forehead

For traitor and removed. The rest of the complicit need the "scarlet letter" treatment as well.

[lagomorph777]

33. Comrade Turtle has to go.

[MikeJelf]

34. Vlad's Rubbing Our Nose in Trump

Remember that Putin started as a KGB (Soviet spy) officer, and that the Soviets had a practice of timing events to historic dates, to underscore a political point.
PUTIN'S AIMS: 1. Weaken Western democracies as models for Russia. Promote conflict in them, confusion and disaffection.
(Viz Mannafort / Cambridge Analytica, Brexit, Facebook bots, funding European neofascists -a world where nothing is real and everything is possible.)-
2. Kill or weaken N.A.T.O., European Union.
3. Advance oligarchical rule, plutocracy and corruption (the source of the Ruskublican nexus).
4. Expose Western intelligence sources and methods in the Russian Federation.

PUTIN'S MEANS: 1. Buying Trump (a fully-owned subsidiary since 2013).
2. Destroying democratic norms, ( A: Putin murders opponents or press in Russia, U.K.).
( B: Trump calls for assassination of his opponent should she win election -- a first for the modern U.S.) (C Trump on JULY 26, 2016 invites Russians to hack his opponent's e-mails, and ON THAT DATE, according to the indictments, the Russian hacking begins.

PUTIN'S SUCCESSES: 1. Trump wins presidency, if not election.
2. Trump's presidential actions, as much as he's permitted, follow Putin's desires. E.g., Congress passes sanctions against Russian oligarchs over Ukraine invasion; Trump drags his feet about implementing them.
3. Trump attacks "foe" European Union, N.A.T.O., British prime minister.
4. Forced into granular detail to overcome Ruskublican resistance (e.g. McConnell, McCarthy). Mueller indictments expose sources and methods of Western intelligence to Putin's spooks.
5. Wearing a cat-who-ate-the-canary smirk, Putin insults FBI by offering, with Trump's acquiescence, to have his indicted intelligence officers investigated by his intelligence agency,
July 26 in History: 1918 -- U.S. Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte orders the staffing of the Office of the Chief Examiner (birthday of the F.B.I.)

[Yavin4]

37. Now, now. Let's not insult Chuck Schumer's esteemed colleague here.

Civility above all else.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. This! It's about time.

Chinless McCON is proud of turning Congress repukes against reality and FOR lying, stealing, scheming, conspiring with malicious intent.

[OnDoutside]

39. Bit of a ding dong on his twitter...

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

:large

[Farmer-Rick]

44. The Republicon/Russian party of inaction and treasonous cowards.

So when are the Russians going to just shove the Republicon/Russian Senators and Reps aside and just takeover in person instead of going through go betweens?

[Crash2Parties]

46. "Mitch McConnell was the top recipient of Blavatnik's donations"

Which Mitch then redistributed via his PAC in the Redmap operation.

[bucolic_frolic]

48. Someone on Twitter yesterday

called for Jeff Flake to switch parties and caucus with Democrats so Schumer would become Majority Leader.

It's not the worst of ideas, especially if 2 or 3 outgoing or moderate Republicans did it. They could say we're switching to elect a new leader, we don't agree with Democrats, but we agree with the oversight role of Congress in the US Government. We'll vote for a new leader but won't caucus with anyone for the remainder of this term, we're going rogue, going BIPARTISAN. That would send a message.

And by the way, Republican Senators and Representatives, going moderate in a bipartisan way might go a long way to ensuring your reelection in 2018 or 2020. Meanwhile, this crisis needs solving - now!

[onetexan]

49. plausible idea!!

[UCmeNdc]

50. K&R

[UCmeNdc]

51. It is not only Trump. The GOP leadership is involved to some degree!

That is why the GOP leadership is protecting Trump.

[duforsure]

52. I agree

and articles of impeachment for treason be drawn up ASAP. He admitted it at the putin meeting presser when he suggested he wanted to allow putin to infiltrate the investigation , he knows putin is responsible for attacking our country, and attacking us now, yet agreed with them to do this. And putin is overjoyed he might be able to find out how they got all the information on all his agents , and all their sources. trump wanting to do this to undermine this investigation, and using an enemy who caused it, to help him is an act of treason and an act against the national security of this country , again. Putin has declared war on th eUSA and our president is with them helpig them , and giving assistance to openly now. Why are the republicans refusing to stop these acts of treason to hurt this country now, and not removing trump , or switching to be a Democrat against this for his removal at once?