Originally published at: Cornyn Threatens to Block Trump Noms Over Unreleased PEPFAR Funds — And Quickly Relents
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday threatened to vote against President Donald Trump’s ambassador nominees for Jamaica and Slovakia unless the Trump administration released the money Congress appropriated for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) — before he got “assurances” that convinced him to drop the plan. A member of the Senate Foreign…
Party guy, through and through. He’ll cave on everything. The last thing he wants to be remembered as was the guy who wasn’t a coward like the rest of his colleagues.
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He has learned nothing.
This administration always LIES.
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Cornyn caves to a liar even on his way out the door!!! Spineless jerk!!!
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More posturing from Jilted John Cornyn. The assurances mean nothing.
Trump is a ghoul
Cornyn is a fool.
PEPFAR is the best thing that GWB ever did.
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One would think by now that Cornyn would know not to trust TRUMP.
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I would assume that Cornyn’s “threat” was met with unverifiable assurances from Trump or maybe an equal threat.
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An amoeba has a stiffer spine than Cornyn.
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Hmm. I wonder how long it’ll be before The Diapered Don names the Tate brothers to ambassadorships? They could really use some diplomatic immunity about now.
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I’m at the point now where I think it’s entirely plausible and even probable that they fold like this because they are called directly by the people in the administration and even outside the administration that are in control and told they will be murdered if they do not comply.
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Where is GWB in all of this? No public protest about the gutting of his initiative that got virtually unanimous bipartisan support and praise? Nothing! What is he afraid of?
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Trump has no plan for Iran? WTI is now over $88 a barrel. Brent over $96. Urals, yes Urals, over $74. Exxon thanks you, Mr. President. Vladimir Putin thanks you. Kalshi and Polymarket thank you. Incumbent oil giants and petrostates are living a surprisingly good life in the late Anthropocene.
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Cornyn - the spineless …
he really isn’t a whole human - he is just a feral intestinal tract segment!
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Well, naturally, Cornyn gave in. I mean, if you can’t trust a pathological serial liar and sexual abuser, who can you trust?