Posted on 02/01/2021 10:28:43 AM PST by Red Badger
Establishment Republicans are urging Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to quietly greenlight President Donald Trump’s conviction in the Senate.
Reports are emerging that McConnell, is being privately urged to support a conviction vote in the Senate’s Republican caucus by prominent Republicans and former White House officials.
In talking to reporters off the record, one Republican member of Congress made clear that the goal to forbid former President Donald Trump from ever holding elected office again is a commonly held goal not among Democrats and Progressives.
“Mitch said to me he wants Trump gone,” one Republican member of Congress told reporters in confidence.
“It is in his political interest to have him gone. It is in the GOP interest to have him gone. The question is, do we get there?”
The lobbying by influential Washington insiders to disqualify Trump from ever holding office in the future started in the US House of Representatives after the January 6th chaos at the US Capitol Building.
The secretive lobbying began to center on McConnell after the House’s impeachment vote.
McConnell has negotiated February 8, 2021, as the start date for Trump’s second impeachment trial.
It was announced that partisan Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy would preside over the trial instead of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, leading many to question the legitimacy of the process on the whole.
Last week, in a shocking floor speech, McConnell said Trump and his allies were the catalysts for “storming” of the Capitol Building on January 6th.
Several videos contradict the use of the word “storming,” showing people casually walking into the Capitol Building through open doors stationed with Capitol Hill police officers who stood by without taking action.
McConnell, who himself has not ruled out voting to convict the former President, said Trump was directly responsible for provoking the actions on January 6th, saying:
“The last time the Senate convened, we had just reclaimed the Capitol from violent criminals who tried to stop Congress from doing our duty. This mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people. And they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like. But we pressed on.”
Meanwhile, Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul successfully convinced all but five Senate Republicans to vote with him in a declaration that the attempt to impeach a president who is no longer sitting, with the excuse that he incited, a riot is completely unconstitutional.
If the 45 Senate Republicans who voted to end the impeachment trial before it began to intend to vote the same way during the Senate trial, then Democrat Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will not be able to round up the two-thirds majority required to convict President Trump.
This is a made up clickbait article after seeing the backlash against Liz Cheney and Rice in South Carolina McConnell knows this would be party suicide
What better way to purge it of all those annoying Trump supporters?................
The GOP does this and they are toast.
Sure thing./s/ The Turtle might be a skunk but he can read. He knows there is no way he is getting 17 Republicans to cross President Trump - go away with this garbage.
And he voted to declare the “impeachment” of a non-sitting president unconstitutional.
Mitch is one sorry piece of $hit....
Report: McConnell Urged to Whip Republicans Into Impeaching Trump
And, that piece of crap might just do it.
All depends on what the Chinese masters tell him to do.
One problem who do you replace those Trump supporters with? Unless you wanna be a permanent minority party some legacy for Mitch the Bitch
This will piss off his base even more vs we’ll be more motivated than ever to work with Trump all across the country to spread our America first policy and call out every Biden garbage policy to make the stupid Biden voters ever regret voting for him.
I don’t know how much stock to put into “conservativebrief.com,” but I do know that the Washington establishment is SCARED SPITLESS over not just Trump, but i think the idea of ANY non-Deep Stater occupying the Presidency. These government creeps simply must be covering up some MASSIVE horrors they’ve committed and are still committing. They’re acting absolutely obsessed and paranoid.
If McConnell is a Swamp Rat, what better way to rid the ‘Party’ of all those annoying Trumpsters?
After all, the GOP was THE Minority party for 40+ years, and they wouldn’t mind doing it again for 40 more as long as they get reelected every 2-6 years............
Trump is already impeached. House impeaches, Senate holds the trial for guilt or innocence.
After two of these, you’d think people could get it right.
McConnell was never an ally of Trump.
They are. And they want Trump to go away and never bother them again. That includes you and me. They know it would piss us off, and that's exactly why they will..................
Does the art of propaganda make sense now?
Maybe this is BS, maybe not. But it is undeniable that not one of them was willing to stand solidly behind President Trump, a man who had the support of 90% of Republicans. That includes Lyon’ Turd Cruz, who now talks about Trump like the skateboard kid would have.
Just think a bit about why a political party would act the way this one has.
Pure political self-interest, zero loyalty. And zero effs given about what We the People think or want.
The GOP was a minority party for 40 years..........They didn’t mind................
Report: McConnell Urged to Whip Republicans Into Impeaching Trump
The fear of PDJT and what he knows and what he might do with that knowledge is what is driving the paranoia in Washington.
It is for nothing that is is called The District of Corruption as a joke.
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