Trump Begrudgingly Following McConnell’s Advice To Lay Off GOP Senators

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) advised President Trump to chill on attacking Republican senators who would likely be deciding his fate, Politico reported.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1259174

Let’s see how long can the Orange Impeachiness control himself!

Meanwhile, a very valid point…how can Thugs-R-Us senators served as impeachment jurors when they are part of it like Sen. Johnson or MoscowMitch, Leningrad Lindsey, Liddle Marco’s 2016 political pac has accepted $7.35M from Ukrainian Oligarch with Putin ties?

Shouldn’t these senators recuse themselves?

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The process is indeed unfair to Trump. It won’t just let him get away with lying and hiding all of the evidence against him. How else is he going to defend himself when he is clearly guilty?

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“He said he thought the process was unfair and he hadn’t done anything wrong. And he wanted us to know that,” an attendee told Politico,

On last night’s Maddow, I just watched Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon include “betrayal of country” in the list of crimes for which plausible charges could be brought against Drumpf.
Kinda makes me wonder what Donnie would actually see as ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’
Not that I really wanna know: I’ve already got ‘outrage fatigue’ from viewing his public actions.

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You know it’s only temporary. He won’t be able to hold out for any length of time.

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Trump needs to be caught offering campaign money to an incumbant GOP Senator with the explicit condition being they promise to vote against impeachment in exchange for the funds.

Of course every Republican in both houses of Congress, upon being presented proof he’d done it, would have to declare there was nothing wrong with what he had done, and it wasn’t an impeachable offense.

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I don’t see this lasting any longer than a NYC minute. Like a toddler, the moment one tells the toddler not to do something, the toddler can’t HELP but focus on doing precisely what was told NOT to do.

This won’t last long.

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Exactly.

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It’s not complicated or hard to understand.

Anything that feeds his ego or benefits himself or his family is right. Everything else is wrong.

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Attacting those who hold your fate is not always a smart tactic, donald.
And as for fairness, donald, how fair were you in caging innocent children…a practice that still continues today? And the House is voting rules today that give you due process, a chance to ask defense questions, to see evidence and the rest even though you have not been charged with anything and a trial has not started yet. Maybe you could extend this to us plebians.
Fairness, donald. Grow up at long last. Or not. In any case you are gonna be impeached and possibly fired.

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Trump: “I’ve done nothing wrong.”

GOPPER Senators: “But we have…and we don’t have an OLC Memo.”

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Lay off? Maybe not https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/31/trump-impeachment-senators-donor-062084

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No impulse control, that’s what we get when they elected a toddler to POTUS.

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Alternate Headline: McConnell Requests Trump Drive His Jury Tampering Underground

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It would be really scary if our geopolitical enemies had even an inkling of this, that the President of the United States fundamentally does not control his own actions, and that he could be steered and baited from afar.

Fortunately I’m sure the White House is keeping this a closely-guarded secret.

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And it’s done all the time, don’t forget that golden nugget.

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Oh…and that “conversation” between Moscow McConnell and Trump. If folks want to call words between an arch-criminal and a five-year-old sadist a “conversation”, Go For It…

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Nor should anyone have an OLC memo. I would like to see that corrected.

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It might have to be an incumbent Democratic Senator to even raise the eyebrows of Trump supporters.

If Moscow Mitch thinks Trump will abide by any agreement, he is a bigger fool than I thought,

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