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McConnell furious with president, thinks impeachment will help 'rid' GOP of Trump and his movement
Fox News ^ | 1-12-21 | Brook Singman and Mike Emanuel

Posted on 01/12/2021 3:53:45 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell 'is done' and 'furious' with President Trump a source familiar confirmed to Fox News.

The source told Fox News that McConnell has shared with associates that impeachment will help rid the Republican Party of Trump and his movement.

It is unclear how McConnell would vote in an impeachment trial, should House Democrats vote to impeach Trump. It is not clear at this point whether McConnell would vote to convict.

Meanwhile, other sources told Fox News that there is "no love lost there."

Part of McConnell’s anger, according to sources, is that the Senate Majority was lost to the Democrats just last Tuesday in the Georgia Senate runoffs, but sources said that McConnell is extremely upset about the president’s actions Wednesday leading up to the riot at the Capitol......."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: andagain; anonymoussources; donaldtrump; fakenews; gop; impeachment; impeachtrumpagain; ismellbs; ismellbullshit; maga; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; othersources; rino; sedition; traitor; trump
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To: redfreedom

Trump and Miller have total control of the military. That stupid memo the joint chiefs sent out has zero effect on anything. General Milley doesn’t have the authority to organize latrine patrol.


241 posted on 01/12/2021 8:27:40 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Yup. +1


242 posted on 01/12/2021 8:29:16 PM PST by Kevmo (I'm in a slow motion Red Dawn reality TV show. The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Cboldt

We just witnessed a bloodless coup d’etat. Why not a bloodless secession?


243 posted on 01/12/2021 8:36:37 PM PST by Kevmo (I'm in a slow motion Red Dawn reality TV show. The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Kevmo
-- Why not a bloodless secession? --

Because the other side is spilling blood and has expressed that it is determined to continue to spill blood until its demands are met.

244 posted on 01/12/2021 8:41:39 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: blam

I think Trump will be impeached in the House, but not removed/convicted by the Senate unless the GOP wants to commit suicide.


245 posted on 01/12/2021 8:42:15 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Why is he furious with Trump? They know Biden stole the election. They were just too cowardly to fight for the republic. They are so damn stupid they think everything goes back to normal under Biden and we all go back to voting for the lesser of two evils. Fk no.


246 posted on 01/12/2021 8:45:15 PM PST by jersey117
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Yup.
247 posted on 01/12/2021 8:46:18 PM PST by Kevmo (I'm in a slow motion Red Dawn reality TV show. The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: blam
This sounds like a lot of BS, McConnell sent out a guide last week on how impeachment would have to work in the Senate. 100% of the Senators would have to vote to reconvene from the pro forma status. Rand Paul and Cruz already said no. So the soonest they could convene to hold a hearing would be 1 hour after Trump had already left office. There was an attempt to impeach someone who had left office, a judge I believe, but he beat the case so the attempt to impeach him after he left office was dropped. There has never been an attempt to remove someone from office when they are not in office. That would obviously face a serious court challenge. There is no precedence and even McConnell said he was not sure SCOTUS would even participate in something like that as it sets a dangerous precedent. An incoming President could question any act by his predecessor and then have him impeached if that party controlled the House and Senate. When you have both Turley and Dershowitz saying nothing Trump said incited a riot, it would be a hard case to sell. If Trump supporters saw a kangaroo trial, the GOP is finished and will go the way of the WHIG party.

I believe McConnell would personally love to purge Trump from the GOP. But he would be purging Trump's voter coalition along with Trump. Obviously GOP slight right conservatives and RINOS will remain, but the rest of the coalition will leave. We are not GOP. McConnell knows that and he knows there is nobody out there who can convince MAGA conservatives not to stay home in 2022 if they screw Trump over now. They will need to hold all their current seats and pick one up. They will need MAGA voters in 2022 and 2024. Trump controls a big portion of those voters.

I hope millions of people that registered as GOP prior to the election, change their registration to unaffiliated or independent. The GOP was crowing about all the new people they enrolled. It would be awesome to see them eating the same crow when millions of those people leave the GOP.

248 posted on 01/12/2021 8:52:23 PM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me.)
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To: be-baw

>Even though he didn’t win, I regret voting for Mitt Romney.

Remember the one-liner:

They told me if I voted for Goldwater that we’d get into a war. I did and we did.


249 posted on 01/12/2021 8:56:07 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (White Privilege does NOT begin with Being White but when you ACT "WHITE"! So, -- ACT "WHITE"!)
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To: Cboldt

Then perhaps it is time for our own color counter-revolution. Like when the Philippines ousted Marcos, who was more than willing to shed blood.


250 posted on 01/12/2021 9:05:46 PM PST by Kevmo (I'm in a slow motion Red Dawn reality TV show. The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
... a source familiar confirmed to Fox News.

That and twenty bucks will get you a pizza.

#FauxNews like all the rest of them. Corporate overlords.

251 posted on 01/12/2021 9:06:15 PM PST by TigersEye (2020 - The year of massive frauds. Impeachment - masks - lockdowns - Biden - elections...)
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To: jersey117

The GOP was complicit with the Big Steal.

The Democrats could not have pulled it off without GOP cooperation.


252 posted on 01/12/2021 9:16:15 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

This could be a “disinformation campaign” by Trump haters including Red China Mitch.


253 posted on 01/12/2021 11:00:42 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: wildcard_redneck

you try to chastise me and others for not wanting to follow them any longer

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What udder nonsense, I did NOTHING OF THE KIND!

If you want to fight for the dems/left that’s on you

If you want to fight against Free Republic, I’ll call you out

I was calling you out for disparaging other members here which is JUST WHAT THE DEMS DEEP STATE GOPe wants us to do.

Fight and call each other names

Using the ignorant childish stupid hateful term fearpers.

That is what the left does

Just shows that you fear something, find out what it is and man up.

Then you tell me GFY???

That is a leftist request/practice.

You are an ass.


254 posted on 01/12/2021 11:43:58 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts )
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To: Zhang Fei

Dems are hoping to diffuse the unpopularity of impeachment on to both parties. Any GOP who supports this is an idiot even in terms of self preservation.


255 posted on 01/13/2021 1:16:04 AM PST by jarwulf
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To: Anti-Bubba182
McConnell furious with president, thinks impeachment will help 'rid' GOP of Trump and his movement

He is possibly quite right; as a third LARGE party could be formed from the Republicans.

But; he could ALSO say that this tactic could 'rid' the Democrats from folks that still have two or more functioning brain cells left!

256 posted on 01/13/2021 3:47:56 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Hard to choose which is worse, McConnell or Harry Reid.


257 posted on 01/13/2021 3:53:16 AM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe )
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To: Joe Boucher

McConnell is much worse, he is not a traitor to his party.


258 posted on 01/13/2021 3:55:30 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Brown Deer

Work WITH you?! you little white-haired TWERP!!


259 posted on 01/13/2021 3:56:37 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Time is running out, and I sincerely hope something is done to correct the corruption and complete disregard for justice within DC.

What baffles me are the Republicans from red states that stabbed Trump in the back. It’s a unified effort to disregard the voters all the way around.

Piglosy and China Mitch so furious with Trump and want him impeached prior to a natural departure is just plain madness and speaks of some sort of fear within them. I hope that fear is the insurrection act and clamping down on these lawless creatures will expose them as the traitors and self serving crooks they are.


260 posted on 01/13/2021 4:00:50 AM PST by redfreedom (Member of Agent Orange Health Club Since 1969)
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