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In final weeks, Trump keeps sowing chaos, hamstringing GOP
The Associated Press ^ | December 23, 2020 | By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JILL COLVIN

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.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ap; baselessdenials; bias; chatforum; dissociatedpress; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; fakeelection; fakenews; fakepresidentelect; jillcolvin; jonathanlemire; journalism; lyingliars; media; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; press; presstitutes; smearmachine; stopthesteal; tds
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To: JohnBrowdie

Explain a little better, and maybe I’ll agree.


21 posted on 12/23/2020 1:48:40 PM PST by DoughtyOne (foreign collusions did happen, it just wasn't 2016 when it happened)
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To: SpaceBar

Tell them that even Mooch Obama and AOX (that Conquistador named lady person) think that the checks Americans are scheduled to received should be higher.


22 posted on 12/23/2020 1:49:00 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Listen to Sidney Powell’s speech today at the Georgia hearing - it’s pretty amazing

I’m fully confident with two more weeks +2 days to go before January 6 ( This being Jesus birthday 🎂 says this week not much gets done of course

there’s gonna be so much airing of the fraud that even the left of center Democrats are going to have to except the fact that it did occur

We already have two slates of electors going on the sixth ; and I think that the obvious choice is going to be the Trump electors

We have a lot of time before January 6


23 posted on 12/23/2020 1:49:09 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Like I give a crap what the Associated Press thinks!!!
24 posted on 12/23/2020 1:50:51 PM PST by ontap
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hi.

JONATHAN LEMIRE and JILL COLVIN

The List gets longer every day.

5.56mm


25 posted on 12/23/2020 1:51:07 PM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ah, The Media is blaming the victim again, I see.


26 posted on 12/23/2020 1:51:44 PM PST by alancarp
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To: AndyJackson

The GOPeerCrats should have investigated 2016, 2018 and 2020 vote fraud in ‘Rat Cities.


27 posted on 12/23/2020 1:53:15 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: All
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They pushed Trump out.

28 posted on 12/23/2020 1:55:02 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘)
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To: Paladin2
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29 posted on 12/23/2020 1:55:45 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘)
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To: Savage Beast

Don’t most Constitutional scholars condemn #2 and #3, but think #1 was handled correctly?


30 posted on 12/23/2020 1:55:53 PM PST by nwrep
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP...All Propaganda.


31 posted on 12/23/2020 1:56:14 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: AnthonySoprano
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They wanted Trump out and their boy in.

32 posted on 12/23/2020 1:57:06 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ape news really has become just another Media-Dem Party propaganda machine.


33 posted on 12/23/2020 2:00:25 PM PST by euram
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To: All

I must ask, is calling four hard drives , that have been corroborated, with evidence of felonies - Russian disinformation - a baseless conspiracy theory?


34 posted on 12/23/2020 2:03:29 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘)
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To: AndyJackson

“The GOP needs neck-stretching, not hamstringing.”

First in line- Mitch McConnell.


35 posted on 12/23/2020 2:04:19 PM PST by Captain7seas
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
President Trump is not sewing chaos or hamstringing the GOP ...President Trump has a real spine and he is doing what is right for America and Americans.

President Trump is not being fooled by the propaganda/"gaslighting"..."WHAT IS GASLIGHTING? The term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her husband in Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage play Gas Light, and the film adaptations released in 1940 and 1944...."

We are being manipulated into believing the color of our skin makes us bettor or worse; that President Trump is a baaaaad man when in fact he is the most successful President for getting things done; President Trump loves America, raised some pretty good children who respect him and their lot in life. Is well liked and trusted around the world...he is not perfect, who is? President Trump has not caved into the evisceration shown him by some in his own party, you know who they are, the speaker Pelosi, the Swamp the media, all smear him. The radical Left/Democrats/Commies fear his love of the Constitution and patriotism for his country...which they don't and react in a dark manner bad for America. President Trump stands in the light, not afraid of anything as he has done nothing to be afraid of as the Deep State has starting with Pelosi, Schumer, Swalwell, Adam Schiff and many, many others who are still trying to Gaslight We The People. We ain't buying..........

36 posted on 12/23/2020 2:07:20 PM PST by yoe (President Trump works for We The People - not China as Biden has and will.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
$900 billion COVID-19 relief and year-end package.

divided by

328.2 million USA population


Equals...


A future tax load of about $2,730 for each citizen.


Now then; just how much is the Gov't going to 'give' each of us??

What the HELL is written in those OVER 5,000 pages of this 'bill'???

37 posted on 12/23/2020 2:10:18 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why can’t he be awesome like the media? S


38 posted on 12/23/2020 2:12:25 PM PST by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: Qiviut; Oldeconomybuyer
"Self-inflicted. If the GOP found their ‘stones’ and did what they SHOULD be doing, they would not be ‘hamstrung’ at all."

Totally agree. The GOPe has been backstabbing President Trump from the very day that he anounced his candidacy. The McConnell can either fight for Americans or he can lose his Senate majority and be powerless for 6 years before he is voted out in 2026.

McConnell, we will not forget or forgive.

39 posted on 12/23/2020 2:12:57 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: DoughtyOne
He has ignored the surging pandemic that is killing 3,000 Americans a day ...

CHOICE?


40 posted on 12/23/2020 2:13:49 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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