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Trump needs to remove these people (Bannon, Gorka et al) in the federal government or we're going to have to remove him from office.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)He's really enraged about all of this. The only thing I take issue with is his defense of the Republican party - he said something to the effect that they aren't going to put up with Trump's crap any more, but unfortunately that's exactly what the GOP has been doing. They put him where he is and they haven't done a damn thing to rein him in. Painter might as well just give up on them.
Come to the light, Richard.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)it seems a lot of GOP pundits and FORMER Congressmen have seen the light on Trump. However, until actual members of Congress do more than issue a strongly worded statement or tweet and actually vote against Trump, it will not amount to more than a hill of beans.
Maraya1969
(22,482 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)During a segment of a special MSNBC broadcast featuring Joy Reid, former ethics czar to President George W. Bush Richard Painter blasted President Donald Trumps stubborn refusal to denounce white supremacists and his attempt to equally blame the left for the violence that killed a 32-year-old woman in Charlottesville, VA.
What this is all about is not the National Socialists or the Ku Klux Klan, Painter said. This is an umbrella organization or movement called the alt-right and the alt-right is a terrorist movement.
He went on, And thats what we have seen: deaths today in Charlottesville because of the alt-right terrorist movement. It was given a platform by Steve Bannon at Breitbart News and the Trump administration needs to remove from the federal government anyone who has had any association with this so-called alt-right movement.
People are dying because of it, Painter said. Its a threat to our national security and these people need to be out.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/the-alt-right-is-a-terrorist-movement-ex-bush-ethics-czar-blasts-trump-administrations-support-of-racists/