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GOP Doubts and Anxieties About Trump Burst Into the Open
Time Mag. ^ | Aug. 19, 2017 | Julie Pace, Bill Barrow / AP

Posted on 08/19/2017 2:44:58 PM PDT by Innovative

President Donald Trump's racially fraught comments about a deadly neo-Nazi rally have thrust into the open some Republicans' deeply held doubts about his competency and temperament, in an extraordinary public airing of worries and grievances about a sitting president by his own party.

Behind the high-profile denunciations voiced this week by GOP senators once considered Trump allies, scores of other, influential Republicans began to express grave concerns about the state of the Trump presidency. In two dozen interviews with Associated Press reporters across nine states, Republican politicians, party officials, advisers and donors expressed worries about whether Trump has the self-discipline and capability to govern successfully.

Eric Cantor, the former House minority leader from Virginia, said Republicans signaled this week that Trump's handling of the Charlottesville protests was "beyond just a distraction."

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antitrump; democrats; ericcantor; gope; nevertrumpers; swampmonsters; trump
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These are not and never were real Republicans, just Democrats who infiltrated the GOP, to do damage from the inside.

They must not be reelected.

1 posted on 08/19/2017 2:44:59 PM PDT by Innovative
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At this rate Trump will never be elected.


2 posted on 08/19/2017 2:47:23 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Biology is not bigotry.)
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Republicans rip media, praise Trump Charlottesville leadership
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3578611/posts


3 posted on 08/19/2017 2:48:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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They never planned on voting and helping TRUMP presidency, this is not a NEW mentality or mindset among these frauds who got power by pretending they were going to end Obamacare IF IF IF we get the majority. Once they have the power to do it, they back out like the liars and power hungry frauds they are.

I hope DJT starts a third party or someone else does.


4 posted on 08/19/2017 2:50:33 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Innovative

The GOP is a combination of traitors and bedwetters. The Rubio, McCain, Collins, Murkowski etc group are in the first category. The remainder are nervous nellies afraid to be identified with Trump even though they know he is correct. Is there a single Senator who has unequivocally defended Trump through this Charlottesville scam?


5 posted on 08/19/2017 2:50:41 PM PDT by littleharbour
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What mendacious bullsh*t.

These Globalist RINOs haven’t just started to express doubts about Trump, they have been fighting him tooth and nail since it became obvious that he was going to win the nomination.


6 posted on 08/19/2017 2:52:05 PM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: littleharbour

These quisling capon losers have hated President Trump since the day he announced...and they hate you and your family.


7 posted on 08/19/2017 2:55:46 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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These folks have a lot of hate in their hearts.


8 posted on 08/19/2017 2:56:20 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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Bee. Ess.


9 posted on 08/19/2017 2:57:14 PM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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This old GOP wanted a Bush you know. It died in 2016.


10 posted on 08/19/2017 3:00:06 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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The Rebublican Party’s issue with President Trump is only a symptom of there real problem, the base of the Republican Party wants the political scalps of the GOP leadership because they are worthless, lying, thieving, corrupt, bottom-feeding worms.


11 posted on 08/19/2017 3:02:47 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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:)


12 posted on 08/19/2017 3:03:15 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Seriously, their $ quote guy is: Eric Cantor, the former House minority leader from Virginia, said Republicans signaled this week that Trump’s handling of the Charlottesville protests was “beyond just a distraction.”

Hey Eric how does it feel to named for Cantorizing Rino’s!


13 posted on 08/19/2017 3:03:39 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!!!)
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The long knives are out.


14 posted on 08/19/2017 3:07:02 PM PDT by aspasia
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The KKK war’s about to start, alright.


15 posted on 08/19/2017 3:09:41 PM PDT by txhurl
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I was always on the Trump train (Even during the primaries). In my opinion, his handling of Charlottesville gets an A- (lost a point for temporarily caving on Monday). However now that he is firing all conservatives, and surrounding himself with people who would be at home on Hillary's team; I am beginning to lose trust in him. The next few months will be interesting.
16 posted on 08/19/2017 3:10:06 PM PDT by ThinkingBuddha
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Seems like — according to the libs anyway — there’s always something “about to” implode in the Trump White House. Oddly enough, it seems like it never does though.


17 posted on 08/19/2017 3:20:21 PM PDT by IronJack (sh)
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“neverTrumpers”


18 posted on 08/19/2017 3:28:47 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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Posting this anywhere I can .. don’t know if this is old news or new news... wikileakes names the republicans on hillary’s payroll to take out Trump...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ2QO-ghQIE


19 posted on 08/19/2017 3:29:18 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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The propaganda that National Socialists were some kind of “right-wing” political extremists was put into wide circulation by the Communists of Europe, back as long ago as the 1920”s, just as a movement known as “Fascism” was rising in many of the nation-states of Europe following the Great War. It was supposed to be some kind of alliance between the big-money interests, the industrialists, and the social reformers of the time, in which the economic power of the great industrial cartels was to be harnessed to the vast labor potential of millions of skilled workers acting though their union representation, who together were to take over the functions of the State, and assure a sort of “democracy” for everybody. All would share in the generation of the new wealth, and there would no longer be want or abject poverty.

This was assuming, of course, that EVERYBODY was on board with the idea, and nobody would raise objections. When there did come an outcry, that maybe the “wrong” people were in charge of things, and some very determined activists set about sabotaging the system (sound familiar?), and people were being hurt in ways nobody ever imagined. Got to do something with troublemakers, so HUGE “re-education” camps are set up, and the most recalcitrant of the “enrollees” were simply - liquidated.

This usually involved an open trench, the “failures” on their knees with arms bound, facing into the trench, and grim determined men walking up behind and putting a bullet from a Luger pistol into the base of the skull. A shove and the lifeless corpse tumbled to the bottom of the trench, and a bulldozer pushed dirt into the mass grave.

The Russian Communists had been doing this very thing since the “Revolution”, and when they found the National Socialists of Germany were considering the same thing, but on a more precise and carefully calibrated manner (the Germans were VERY good at keeping meticulous records), they right away began shouting and pointing fingers at the “reactionary” National Socialists. From the perspective of the Communist, National Socialism may be a little less extreme, and therefore, are “rightward” from the position of the Communists, thus “right-wing”.

The Communists were battling the National Socialists, or Fascists, right from the beginning, because they were fighting over the same turf, how best to administer a “command and control” economy. Communists were the first “anti-Fascists”, and the precursors of the “Antifa” movement now operating in the US and elsewhere, shock troops for the establishment of Communism as a viable form of government.

There were no innocents at Charlottesville. It was several sets of “command and control” activists come together in yet another turf war.

Nary a conservative or a libertarian was anywhere near the confrontation, and sure did not get involved in the busting of heads and general mayhem. The woman that was killed, and the many injured, were just “collateral damage” and blame for that may be laid squarely on the people swinging clubs and shouting slogans.

The driver of the car was just a mental case to begin with, and was in no way acting as an agent of any Republican cause.


20 posted on 08/19/2017 3:30:58 PM PDT by alloysteel (Guilty until proven innocent, while denying defense, justice, mercy or any appeal. No pardon, ever.)
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