Portman Urges Trump To ‘Move Forward’ After Lawsuits Couldn’t Prove Mass Fraud | Talking Points Memo

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The dam continues breaking against President Trump.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) implored Trump to stop stonewalling President-elect Joe Biden’s formal transition process in an op-ed published Monday. Portman is one of the few Hill Republicans who have recently come around to accepting the reality that Trump’s presidency will end in January, following the sitting president’s unsuccessful legal attempts at delegitimizing the election process.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1346050
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MAGAts are welcome to primary Spineless Rob in 2022! Do it, Future Sons and Daughters of Red Ohio! As a liberal in this state I WANT TO BE OWNED!

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but in the likely event that Joe Biden becomes our next president

Ya think Rob? Don’t go too far out on a limb here. They are all cowards and sycophants, and will continue to take down this country. No praise from me.

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Trump=Low life lyin’ racist scum. Filth. Shit. Piss. Garbage. Dung. Foul. Low. Puke.

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the sitting president’s lawsuits for the past three weeks have been “resolved”

Not so fast Senor Portman…no one’s heard from the Robed Gang of Six yet. It really only matters what they “resolve”.

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Chordata if not quite vertebrata.

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The signals are getting louder and louder. They desperately want to move on from this, but Trump is not going to allow them to do so. As Trump becomes more isolated, I suspect he will increasingly turn his ire onto his fellow Republicans in a bid to remind them who is still boss. The fight between Trump and the GOP could get really, really ugly, and I’m here for every second of it.

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Yes indeed. Let’s throw edged weapons into the Octagon and see which rotten corrupt fanatical old white man (speaking as a fanatical old white man here) is left standing.

And then let’s throw the remaining motherfuckers out the door.

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When having kinky sex, I have been told, there is a word that one of the partners will not go farther.
What is the word Portman?

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I liked your comment, maybe from wishful thinking.

I “trust” McConnell’s political instincts. The moment he calculates that this does more damage to the gop than good, he’ll end it.

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Ya think Rob? Don’t go too far out on a limb here.

Portman doesn’t go out at night, petrified of possibly seeing his own shadow.

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You have to wonder why and how, after four years of this, these people still stick their neck out for the dotard and attempt to triangulate on this. He does not appreciate that you sold a little more of your soul to pretend for a few weeks that there was any question about the victor. He doesn’t care. You failed him. He will turn on you. He will betray you, every time.

Dumbasses still can’t figure out that there are two approaches: rip off the bandaid or go all the way down with the ship. There is no third way.

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Oh yes, and own me too! I fucking hate RP, and I constantly mention 2022 in my voicemails to his offices.

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In my daydreams, Trump forms his own party and screws up Republican elections for the next decade.

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“…but in the likely event that Joe Biden becomes our next president,…”
Really going out on a limb there, eh Portman. Joe Biden has been elected President and he will be the next one.

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Bravely leaving a lifeline so he can crawl back…just in case. They love their jobs more than anything else.

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I’ll toss some metal chairs in the ring!
I could be totally wrong, but I think this is the one time where there’s little with which the GOP can threaten Trump into backing down. They’re completely out of leverage. McConnell can’t shut it down. He has nothing he can offer or threaten to force Trump to back down. All he could offer is to try to shutdown Senate investigations into his time in office, but that won’t stop the House. He can’t promise some kind of non-prosecution agreement. He literally has nothing.

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From an article in Yahoo news stating that Carl Bernstein names 21 Republican senators who privately expressed disdain for Trump

Peter Weber

Sun, November 22, 2020, 9:47 PM MST·2 min read

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Political reporters in Washington, D.C., have been saying a lot of Republicans in Congress privately despise President Trump, but few have publicly criticized him — and likewise, few have publicly acknowledged his defeat to President-elect Joe Biden. Carl Bernstein, one half of the journalistic duo that uncovered President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, named 21 names on Sunday night, saying that in private conversations, these Republicans senators “have repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for Trump” and his fitness to be president.

The 21 senators he named include names you would expect, but also some surprises, like Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.), and Senate Majority Whip John Thune (S.D.). The other 18 GOP senators are Rob Portman (Ohio), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Ben Sasse (Neb.), Roy Blunt (Mo.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Mitt Romney (Utah), Mike Braun (Ind.), Todd Young (Ind.), Tim Scott (S.D.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Richard Burr (N.C.), Pat Toomey (Pa.), Martha McSally (Ariz.), Jerry Moran (Kansas), Pat Roberts (Kansas), and Richard Shelby (Ala.).

"With few exceptions" — Romney and Sasse, mostly — “their craven public silence has helped enable Trump’s most grievous conduct — including undermining and discrediting the U.S. the electoral system,” wrote Bernstein, who’s made his own feelings about Trump clear for a while. He had named 15 of those senators on CNN late last week, saying "many, if not most, of these individuals, from what I have been told, were happy to see Donald Trump defeated in this election, as long as the Senate could be controlled by the Republicans.

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I guess I’m just a pollyanna but it sounds to me like he’s saying Trump obviously lost, there’s no doubt of that, no possibility for Trump’s candidacy to remain viable, so let’s for God’s sake get on with the transition for the good of the country. It doesn’t excuse years of cowardice. But I’m hearing everything in there that Republicans need, better late than never, to be saying.

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He is already making motions about torpedoing the GOP’s chances in the GA Senate runoffs. He isn’t in it for anyone but himself and he will take revenge on anyone or anything that goes against him, including the GOP. I hope Mitch has a stroke or coronary event before this is over, that would really be the icing on the cake.

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