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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer divides Democrats after appearances with Trump in Michigan and at White House
Fox News ^ | 4/30/25 | Jeffrey Clark

Posted on 05/01/2025 12:07:43 AM PDT by Libloather

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has stirred controversy within the Democratic Party after appearing with President Donald Trump at an event in her state on Tuesday and at the White House earlier this month.

"Her going to the White House… on the heels of an election where she was heavily involved campaigning for the Democratic nominee [against Trump], I think, says a lot about her understanding about her role is to be the governor of all, not just her party," Democratic county executive in Macomb County Mark Hackel told The Washington Post about Whitmer's April 9 visit to the Oval Office.

During the event, Trump signed executive orders and answered questions from the press, praising Whitmer for her "excellent job" as governor and calling her a "very good person," a notable departure from his usual criticism of the Democrat.

Some Democrats, however, were highly critical of Whitmer's appearances alongside Trump.

"I think the fight-back faction of the Democratic Party is ascendant, and leaders who ignore that risk getting left behind," Ezra Levin, co-executive director of Indivisible, told the Post.

Trump praised Whitmer during the Tuesday event in Michigan, where he unveiled plans to swap out the retiring A-10 Warthog aircraft based out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base just outside Detroit with 21 brand-new F-15EX Eagle II fighter jets.

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On April 10, the day after Whitmer's Oval Office meeting with Trump, Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called Trump a "fascist" in a post on social media.

"Why I refuse to normalize this president: Appeasement is not workable strategy with a fascist," Nessel wrote in a post on X.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: democrats; michigan; nessel; whitler; whitmer
RATS have a strategy.
1 posted on 05/01/2025 12:07:43 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Hahaha. There is NO tolerance for heretics of the democrat party cult.


2 posted on 05/01/2025 12:18:51 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eye)
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To: Libloather

Rats have no choice but to restructure. If there was a political chapter 11 “bankruptcy” plan of reorganization, thats exactly what they need to emulate. This man Donald Trump has out smarted, out maneuvered, out performed them on every level at every critical moment for almost a decade and they at some point will be forced to admit defeat/failure as a political party. The question is not if, but when it will happen. Just my $.02


3 posted on 05/01/2025 12:19:26 AM PDT by know.your.why
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To: Libloather

Newsom/Whitmer 2028?


4 posted on 05/01/2025 1:31:53 AM PDT by catbertz
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To: Libloather

Trump is so delightfully smart! Wicked sense of humor!


5 posted on 05/01/2025 1:39:47 AM PDT by CFW
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To: Libloather

Rats have a strategy?

Well, if history is a guide, nullifucation of federal law resulted in civil war.

Let these Utopian fascist call Trump a facists all they want. It is not at all accurate. It is they who are the
fascists.

Let these Utopian fascists go for their guns and we will see how long nullification as a strategy lasts .


6 posted on 05/01/2025 2:43:26 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=00</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: Libloather

This is similar to Chris Christie and Obama after that storm hit the east coast.


7 posted on 05/01/2025 3:12:38 AM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: catbertz

Maybe Newscum, but not WHitler. After the Kamala mess I doubt even the rats will stick a dumbass women out there, beside low IQ ones is all they have as that’s why they are dems. When you hear how shaky her voice was when Trump called her up one can see she’s too nervous on the national stage.


8 posted on 05/01/2025 3:25:09 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: know.your.why

Now if only our country club big government Bush Republicans would get on board.


9 posted on 05/01/2025 4:11:51 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Libloather

Whitmer did not save Selfridge ANGB, SecDef Hegseth did.


10 posted on 05/01/2025 4:49:57 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: Libloather

Well, President Trumps should invite every Democrat Governor to come on up and say a few words! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Then at campaign time Trump can run ads stating the those Governors are favorable to him……. THE KISS OF DEATH!


11 posted on 05/01/2025 5:00:06 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: Lockbox

That’ll work, especially in the runup to the mid-terms.


12 posted on 05/01/2025 5:58:35 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: Libloather

Gretchen Whitmer has an autoworker and blue collar worker problem. The autoworkers know who is protecting their livelihood and they are very pro-Trump.

Michigan and the entire Midwest, victims of the leftist coastal communists destroying and outsourcing their industries, will be solid red soon.


13 posted on 05/01/2025 9:24:35 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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