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Some GOP Senators Dismiss GOP House Leaders Defending Trump Against Potential Indictment (the usual pantywaists)
Breitbart ^ | 3/22/23 | WENDELL HUSEBØ

Posted on 03/22/2023 12:01:17 PM PDT by cotton1706

Among the senators who shrugged off defending Trump from the potential “unprecedented abuse of authority” were Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and John Thune (R-SD). Speaking with Punchbowl News, each senator had a varying degree of indifference to calls for transparency from House leadership.

Cornyn suggested the leadership should mostly ignore Bragg’s potential indictment and focus on legislative priorities. “I would hope they would stick to the agenda they ran on when they got elected to the majority,” Cornyn suggested.

Capito appeared to shrug off altogether the House’s attempted oversight: “The House is gonna do what the House is gonna do.”

Tillis warned the House leaders not to interject themselves into the so-called “legal process” and tried to direct his comments toward the origins of the potential case against Trump.

“You’ve got to fall short of getting involved in the legal process,” he said. “I think there is a legitimate question asked of, ‘Why are we here?'”

Thune said he did not want to get involved with the House’s effort to defend the former president. “I try to stay out of talking about the House,” he said.

The GOP senators’ willingness to shrug off the House’s demand for transparency comes as legal scholars believe Bragg’s potential case against Trump is shaky.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections
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1 posted on 03/22/2023 12:01:17 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Wait until these clowns are hauled into court on bogus charges.


2 posted on 03/22/2023 12:02:58 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! Assumed that rates would go down, or wouldn't go higher.)
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To: cotton1706

What has happened to Cornyn over the years? Or is he just finally showing who he really is? Capito is surprisingly disappointing for being a Republican from West Virginia.


3 posted on 03/22/2023 12:04:35 PM PDT by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: Fido969

The usual suspects - Cornyn, Thune, Tillis and Capito. Republicans lite, if that. I gave Tillis a fair amount of money back in 2018, not a dime more.


4 posted on 03/22/2023 12:04:39 PM PDT by laconic
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To: Fido969

“Wait until these clowns are hauled into court on bogus charges.”

They never will, because they go along.

That’s the deal.


5 posted on 03/22/2023 12:08:46 PM PDT by cotton1706
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With bums like this it really doesn’t matter if the Rs ever control the Senate.


6 posted on 03/22/2023 12:12:19 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: cotton1706

As labor leader Samuel Gompers(1850-1924) said:
“Reward Your Friends and punish your enemies.”

And if that looks bad, beloved American icon Obama said:
In what can only be described as a very ugly exhortation, President Obama called on Latinos to “punish our enemies.”

...the appeal to “punish our enemies” smacks of a Nixonian mindset. “Our enemies?” The millions of Americans who oppose “comprehensive immigration reform” as the president defines it are “enemies?
Center For Immigration Studies,By Stanley Renshon and Stanley Renshon on October 27, 2010. Also NYT and several others


7 posted on 03/22/2023 12:14:18 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: cotton1706

RINO shrug fest. There will be penalties.


8 posted on 03/22/2023 12:14:18 PM PDT 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: JonPreston
With bums like this it really doesn’t matter if the Rs ever control the Senate.

No kidding.

9 posted on 03/22/2023 12:15:18 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: laconic

When RINOs and traitors deserted their voters and reached across the aisle to give in to the Dems on major bills, Rush used to say “Well, their votes must be something they are really proud of, so I’m going to now read their names to you.”


10 posted on 03/22/2023 12:17:46 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger
Their votes must be something they are really proud of, so I’m going to now read their names to you.

No irony at all.

11 posted on 03/22/2023 12:29:22 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: cotton1706

Deep State Rethuglicans do what Deep State Rethuglicans do.


12 posted on 03/22/2023 12:52:00 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: MDLION
What has happened to Cornyn over the years? Or is he just finally showing who he really is?

Cornholio has always sucked.

13 posted on 03/22/2023 12:58:36 PM PDT by rhinohunter (“Being woke means you’re a loser” — Donald J. Trump)
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To: cotton1706

The four Senators mentioned are a waste of sperm.(and an egg)

Typical responses from cowards who are pushovers in any tough political fight.


14 posted on 03/22/2023 1:09:03 PM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: cotton1706

Hence (and proof) of my Moniker for these “Congresspersons..” GOPeahens.


15 posted on 03/22/2023 1:47:35 PM PDT by Shady (DC Politicians have negated their need to represent US when they bastardized the vote.)
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To: Shady

Without even glancing at the article, I can already guess that Mitt Romney is one of them.


16 posted on 03/22/2023 1:49:30 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: cotton1706

Kudos to Ted Cruz, getting to what is really important and pressing right now:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-senator-ted-cruz-proposes-175303646.html


17 posted on 03/22/2023 1:51:06 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: cotton1706

The crucial word in your headline is “usual” because, as others have noted, this kind of behavior is no surprise to anyone.


18 posted on 03/22/2023 2:34:47 PM PDT by Eagle Forgotten
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To: cotton1706
“You’ve got to fall short of getting involved in the legal process,” Tillis said. “I think there is a legitimate question asked of, ‘Why are we here?'”

We are here because you don't fall short of getting involved, you always don't get involved, & we are here because you conspired with the Democrats to steal an election.

Any other questions traitor?

19 posted on 03/22/2023 2:35:29 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: wintertime

Surprisingly, not in this instance - yet..


20 posted on 03/22/2023 2:40:17 PM PDT by Shady (DC Politicians have negated their need to represent US when they bastardized the vote.)
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