Posted on 01/18/2021 7:35:15 AM PST by Red Badger
Republican Party establishment strategist Karl Rove is informing President Donald Trump that he will likely be impeached unless he stops talking about electoral fraud.
Rove is trying to use the president’s precarious position following the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol to pressure him into folding. He appeared on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace to deliver the threat.
Wallace asked: “Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says that he is keeping an open mind about the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, a big difference, sharp difference, from his clear opposition from the very start of the first impeachment trial just a year ago. What do you think, Karl, are the chances that 17 Senate Republicans, and that’s what it would take if all of the Democrats vote for conviction, 17 Senate Republicans would vote to convict Donald Trump and to keep them from running again?”
Rove responded: “Normally we say not much chance, but I think Leader McConnell’s statement is a sign that every Republican Senator needs to take this seriously. I think it’s all going to boil down what’s the president’s defense. Rudy Giuliani charted a very bad course for the president in the morning papers when he suggested that the argument was going to be in there couldn’t have been incitement because all the charges of widespread voter fraud are true. Well, those charges and the so-called experts that the campaign has mustered to advocate them have been rejected by over 50 courts with judges appointed by President Trump, President Obama, Present Bush, President Clinton, and I think even one Reagan justice. So if it’s the Rudy Giuliani defense, there is a strong likelihood that more than 17 Republicans will because essentially that argument is this was justified, the attack on the Capital and the attempt to end the congressional hearing on certifying the election was justified because all these charges are true and frankly they aren’t. They have been given every opportunity to prove them in a court of law and have failed to do so. I think it really boils down to what’s the defense that the president is going to make, and if it is Rudy Giuliani’s defense, I think it raises the likelihood of more than 17 Republicans voting for conviction.”
Big League Politics has reported on how the Republican establishment is joining the Democrats to railroad the president:
Mitch McConnell is reportedly “pleased” about the possibility of Trump’s second impeachment, viewing it as an opportunity to purge Trump from the Republican Party and whatever else Conservative Inc. deems “toxic.”
In a New York Times report published Monday afternoon, Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman write that the outgoing Senate Majority Leader believes Trump committed “impeachable offenses.” McConnell also welcomes impeachment in order to justify dumping Trump and shedding his influence over the GOP.
“Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, has indicated that he wants to see the specific article of impeachment that the House is set to approve on Wednesday, which is expected to draw support from as many as a dozen Republicans, potentially including Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the party’s No. 3 in the House,” the report reads. “But he has made clear in private discussions that he believes now is the moment to move on the weakened lame duck, whom he blames for causing Republicans to lose the Senate.”
The Times also claims that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, although personally opposed to impeachment, has decided along with “other party leaders” to not formally lobby Republicans to vote “no” and is open to censuring the president. McCarthy discussed with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer a plan to get Republicans on board with a formal censure, but only if Democrats “backed off” from impeachment.
The GOP establishment may destroy their entire party because they hate President Trump’s America First agenda so much.
so the GOP was in on the Steal
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Yes.
Most obvious in ga with raffenaspberger and kemp actively covering up fraud.
The blow fish still thinks he has pull in the current Trump party
The basic premise of the article makes no sense. If Karl Rove said this on Chris Wallace's show, then the only people getting his message were leftists anyway.
“....so the GOP was in on the Steal....”
GOPe = DNC = UniParty = Communism
Yeah, it’s pretty much a given they helped organize and follow thru with it.
Jedi mind tricks: “..there was no fraud.. you did not see what you saw.. you are now FORBIDDEN to even SPEAK of it!!...”
People, heads need to ROLL.
Exactly. He’s supposed to go along with it because they made the deal to look the other way.
In other words all of our “elections” are rigged, total predetermined outcome.
And Fossil McConnell winning by 15% in KY is likely BS. They ran the game for him too, he’s part of “The Gang”.
Because you know, the government is too important to be controlled by us little people.
This will do them no good. People have their minds made up.
Yep. Who watches his show anyway. Fox News need to fire Chris Wallace and Neil Cavuto if they’re serious about cleaning house.
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”
― George Orwell, 1984
I can’t wait for Karma to hit traitor Karl Rove upside the head with his white board. He makes pond scum look appetizing.
The Big Steal was BIPARTISAN!
GOP - RIP
Here’s the best defense: It is unconstitutional to stage an impeachment trial of a private citizen. Donald Trump will be a private citizen after noon on January 20.
Bump for later.
They engineered it................................
Just pardon Snowden, Assange, the Silk Road dude, and 1,000 others. And release the damned docs already, millions of pages, no redactions...expose the British MI6 scumbags as well.
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