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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 Wednesdays 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 Trumps most loyal defenders, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), said it was not a helpful call.
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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?
grumpyduck
(6,267 posts)then that's something good he's done for us.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)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.