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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,256 posts)
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 10:17 PM Jan 2021

Trump sabotaging GOP on his way out of office with push to overturn election

President Trump is effectively sabotaging the Republican Party on his way out of office, obsessed with overturning his election loss and nursing pangs of betrayal from allies whom he had expected to bend the instruments of democracy to his will.

Trump has created a divide in his party as fundamental and impassioned as any during his four years as president, with lawmakers forced to choose between certifying the results of an election decided by their constituents or appeasing the president in an all-but-certain-to-fail crusade to keep him in power by subverting the vote.

As Republican lawmakers took sides ahead of Wednesday’s joint session of Congress to certify the electoral college results, some on Monday voiced rare criticism of Trump for his attempt to pressure Georgia elections officials to change vote totals there during a Saturday phone call, a recording of which was published by The Washington Post.

Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the No. 3 House Republican, said the call was “deeply troubling” and urged all Americans to listen to the hour-long conversation, while Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.) condemned it as “a new low in this whole futile and sorry episode.” Even one of Trump’s most loyal defenders, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), said it was “not a helpful call.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-sabotaging-gop-on-his-way-out-of-office-with-push-to-overturn-election/ar-BB1ctlmK?li=BBnb7Kz

Trump's behavior is quite predictable. I think he'll sabotage more than the GOP. Wonder if he's passed any state secrets off to Putin?

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Trump sabotaging GOP on his way out of office with push to overturn election (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2021 OP
Wwell, if he can fuck up the GOP, grumpyduck Jan 2021 #1
The reTHUGS had the opportunity to choose the best path for them years ago. In 2015 they chose abqtommy Jan 2021 #2

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
2. The reTHUGS had the opportunity to choose the best path for them years ago. In 2015 they chose
Tue Jan 5, 2021, 12:28 AM
Jan 2021

to follow tRUMP wherever they pushed him to go, even off a cliff. It takes more than one corrupt tRUMP
to pull this all off. My fervent desire is that they all get their due.

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