Posted on 12/23/2020 1:28:00 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - The video message that plunged Washington into chaos was filmed in secret.
President Donald Trump stood in the White House’s Diplomatic Reception Room, holiday garland and gleaming ornaments draped on the fireplace behind him, and spoke into the camera not to deliver warm Christmas wishes, but to threaten to detonate Congress’ $900 billion COVID-19 relief and year-end package.
The video was released without warning Tuesday night, its recording orchestrated by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and kept from all but a handful of aides. Few Republicans or even White House staffers knew Wednesday what Trump planned next, a return to the around-the-clock chaos of his first months in office.
The moment was also a flashback to the start of Trump’s political career, when he delivered direct assaults on GOP leadership and aimed to blow up the party’s establishment. Now Trump appears willing to do that again on his way out of office, potentially sabotaging his party’s chances of controlling the Senate as he lashed out in anger at those he believes have not supported his efforts to overturn the election.
Since his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden, Trump has been holed up in the White House with an ever-shrinking circle of aides and allies, including some pushing fraudulent conspiracy theories about the election. He has ignored the surging pandemic that is killing 3,000 Americans a day and done little to promote the use of the vaccines that are being counted on to bring it to an end.
His focus instead has largely been on trying to overturn Biden’s victory, embracing baseless conspiracy theories, pushing futile legal challenges and undermining confidence in the tenets of American democracy and the peaceful transfer of power.
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Ah phoey...
The GOP needs neck-stretching, not hamstringing.
In before “baseless” ....
.... awww nevermind.
There, I fixed it! 😄
So sayeth Jon and Jill.
The message scared them, or they wouldn't have responded, and certainly not with this tone.
Funny, it never occurs to them that the bill might just be...
...s**t???
McConnell is hamstringing the Senate.
Acts like he will be POTUS for four more years, doesn’t he?
Has he STOPPED THE STEAL?
Like the GOP had such a full plate of things they wanted to accomplish for the American people. 🙄
Self-inflicted. If the GOP found their ‘stones’ and did what they SHOULD be doing, they would not be ‘hamstrung’ at all.
So the Ass Press wants the GOP to do well!
Shazaam!
The Associated Press is onto Trump. They've got his game figured out.
How good it must make them feel that they have finally figured out a man who is one hundred times smarter than they are, has instincts that they can't even imagine and strategically think that they have him surrounded when, in fact, he has them surrounded.
These people don't have a clue, even after all these years.
Yeah, Trump sowing chaos. As far as the gopE, they can phu cough! In a cooperative decent manner of course.
Let me get this straight.
Our Republican Majority Leader of the United States Senate,
is going to side with the Democrats against our Republican
president, just 7 days before we ask Georgia Republicans to
vote for the Republican candidates, because that will make
the nation more safe.
Okay troopers, all together now, a 21 gun raspberry salute.
it’s the other way around as far as who’s siding with the democrats with the runoff around the corner.
>>was filmed in secret.
and then broadcast worldwide.
FUAP
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