Ruthless attacks may come back to haunt him

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Opinion by Michael D'Antonio
Updated 1:50 PM ET, Sat September 28, 2019

... On Friday, former Sen. Jeff Flake told NPR that at least 35 GOP Senators would support impeaching Trump if they were allowed to vote in secret. "Anybody who has sat through two years, as I have, of Republican luncheons realizes that there's not a lot of love for the President. There's a lot of fear of what it means to go against the President, but most Republican senators would not like to be dealing with this for another year or another five years," he said. Added to Democratic votes, Flake's estimate of 35 Republicans would make for the two-thirds majority required to remove Trump from office.

... Republican officials may fear Trump but they do not like him. Consider the President's penchant for insults and demeaning nicknames and it's easy to agree with Flake's logic. Remember that then-candidate Trump mocked and disparaged Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz as "Little Marco" and "Lyin' Ted" and you'll understand why they might have little sympathy for him now.

Trump's vulnerability was in clear view when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell allowed the upper chamber to vote on a resolution urging the Trump administration to turn over the whistleblower complaint to Congress. The resolution passed unanimously in the GOP-controlled Senate ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/28/opinions/trumps-ruthless-attacks-impeachment-dantonio/index.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Good. Attack this so called illegimate president day in, day out. Don't relent. Attack his...

cronies and the like, since they've all been lying, cheating, stealing, whatever they can get away with, all the while not governing worth a hoot, not doing anything except sponge off the taxpayers' money. These people are part of a massive, crooked scheme to defraud all of us. RICO their a&&es.

[KT2000]

2. afraid of getting

an insulting nickname? These gop senators are cowards. They are willing to see this country fall apart for fear of nicknames.

[hlthe2b]

3. THAT is an enoyable read...

[Wellstone ruled]

4. My take is,

the more Moscow Don squeals and attacks people the more he sours the Jury Pools who might have to decide his guilt or innocence.