Graham: Trump says GOP senators opposing him are 'playing with fire'
Source: Politico
By BURGESS EVERETT 03/05/2019 03:38 PM EST
President Donald Trump said Senate Republicans considering opposition to his emergency declaration on the border are "playing with fire," according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, who met with the president on Tuesday morning.
The South Carolina Republican said his meeting with the president focused mostly on the border and the number of illegal crossings as Trump faces certain bipartisan defeat on his emergency declaration in the Senate later this month.
Four Republican senators have said they will join 47 Senate Democrats in voting to block the national emergency declaration, though Trump will veto it and Congress likely won't be able to muster the votes to override it. And though Trump is not waging a massive campaign to convert Republicans to his side, he's acutely aware of the politics of the issue.
"He says he thinks Republicans are playing with fire here because most Republicans, anyway, most people I hope, will see that the border is in a state of crisis," Graham said, adding that Trump believes GOP senators that defy him are likely to face a political backlash. "That's his observation, but he's not out there calling people out or anything."
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/05/graham-trump-senate-1205426
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)...a need for More Popcorn!
DrToast
(6,414 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)DrToast
(6,414 posts)Firestorm49
(4,037 posts)Some day tRump will just be a footnote in some sorry saga - if we arent a Russian satellite country by then.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)TwilightZone
(25,479 posts)Nope. There's your first problem, Lindsey.
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)until Trump needed some way to get himself out of the bag of bullshit he was in for saying that Mexico would pay to build a wall to keep all the rapists out.
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)Maybe he is a large rodent that Trump mistakes to be desperate mutt.
Graham
pwb
(11,287 posts)Because he acts like the other puke mean drunks now.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)No other explanation, unless he's normally a self-serving shit heel...
Perseus
(4,341 posts)He owes Putin some money, I bet.
agingdem
(7,857 posts)Just in case Graham hasn't been paying attention because his head is so far up trump's ass he can taste the Big Mac, the 2018 newly elected Democratic House took away trump's matches...
onetexan
(13,058 posts)i.e., implying that if a senator doesn't support the Idiot's decision he'll call them out like he's done with many others and try to damage their political careers.
agingdem
(7,857 posts)don't think the repubs breaking with trump are as afraid of trump as they were before the 2018 election..
onetexan
(13,058 posts)Repugs tend to be whipped in line. Party over country, decency, and all reason seems to be their MO.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)a 911 style operationto pin on Mexico, and thus blame those who oppose the wall.
I just wouldn't put this past the GOPutin.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Heres to hoping a new phrase is added to our lexicon
Graham stand: A phony obsequient dire warning that an authoritarian might get upset. Backed up by nothing.
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)What happened
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)By the 19th hole he was a changed man. Full on Trumpet.
Harker
(14,034 posts)is going to experience a poltical backlash.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)What an asshole.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)from the GOP who have "kompromat" on him...
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,620 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)understand that you are suppose to defend and protect the Constitution correct, all of it, correct, what fucking part of Article II do you not understand.....................
There are suppose to be equal parts of government, like you know a Congress, Senate, and then Executive and Judicial, correct.....................since you have NO fucking clear understanding on the responsibility of what Congress does, .................................... resign.
And your as delusional as that flag wrapping hugging POS..........................he still doesn't know what the First Words are in the Preamble of the Constitution.....................they do not say ME..........................and only ME.................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough...........................
dchill
(38,532 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)Or is the plan to just set everyone ELSES roof on fire?
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)When the next Democratic President calls a state of emergency to address climate change or gun control
Bayard
(22,149 posts)Scruffy1
(3,256 posts)No crises. Had a great time.
Judi Lynn
(160,620 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)He's embarrassing himself, his party and the entire country.
Linda Ed
(493 posts)Here is a hair raising article...with sources Trump has been linked to the mob and here are sources..
https://www.sutori.com/story/timeline-you-might-be-interested-in--pTTyLH39r7FsRtF51JZi4BVt
trump is slime... He is a horrible person. Trump is a dangerous. Trump is one of the most unscrupulous and corrupt individuals to run for president in the history of the Republic. Trump has been accused of pedophilia behavior and rape by a 13 year old girl at the time and filed a lawsuit but was threatened that if she went to court her family and her would suffer the consequences..Death threats none the less.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)olddad65
(599 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)His entire career, reputation and legacy traded for a cheap red baseball cap made in China.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Coming from another trump and putin puppet who is presently under investigations for their illegal activities , and now for trump for fear of being exposed, and threatening other republicans trump will use his power to hurt them if they don't cow down to any of his demands, which will only escalate , and become more criminal, and to use to compromise them with. Graham is showing us all he's desperate, and also in deep trouble by doing this now. Many others are too.