GOP ex-lawmaker reveals how Trump's tweets scare Republicans into silence over his 'risky behavior'
TRAVIS GETTYS
13 FEB 2017 AT 09:13 ET
There’s an increasing amount of chatter that congressional Republicans are concerned about President Donald Trump and his fitness for office, but one former GOP lawmaker explained why they’re too afraid to speak out.
David Jolly, a former House representative from Florida who published a critical op-ed Monday aimed at his former colleauges, agreed that Trump had displayed “some very risky behavior” as chief executive, and he told CNN’s “New Day” that two dynamics were stopping members of Congress from criticizing the president’s behavior.
“They’re scared that their political career will be destroyed by a tweet from President Trump,” Jolly said. “The other is, stay silent and pass an agenda.”
The former lawmaker said some Republicans simply agreed with Trump and his controversial views, but many GOP representatives had private doubts about the president.
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Weak congressional Republicans are not standing up to Trump as they should
BY FORMER REP. DAVID JOLLY (R-FL), OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 02/12/17 07:01 AM EST
Donald Trump won the election. He's our President. But his election does nothing to change the Article I Constitutional Authority of the Congress, nor does it change the responsibility of Republican Members of Congress to honor the promises made to their constituents.
Remember those promises? End executive overreach. Stop deficit spending. Lower taxes. Insist on an independent judiciary. Demand Congress be a co-equal branch. Demand our President take a harder line against Vladimir Putin, Iran, and other adversaries to American ideals. Sadly Republicans in Congress have proven to be weaker under a Republican President Trump than they ever were under a Democrat Barack Obama.
At least under Obama, Republicans in Congress tried — often with intense rhetoric and unrelenting oversight. Under Trump, however, they’ve proven timid and confused, only to at times find their footing and stand not as contrarians, but as apologists for President Trump’s reckless actions and dangerous tweets.
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The silence from Capitol Hill is astounding. Where's the outrage over Trump’s executive order travel ban already stayed by a federal court due to executive overreach (recall the criticism of Obama's amnesty orders and the cheering at the court's intervention)? Where's the outrage at his most predictable pivot to finance a wall on the Mexican border with billions of dollars of deficit spending (recall Republican outrage at Obama's deficit spending on shovel ready stimulus projects)?
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http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/national-party-news/318858-weak-congressional-republicans-are-not-standing-up-to
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