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The Republican Plot Against Donald Trump
theamericanconservative.com ^ | 2/12/2024 | J.D. Vance

Posted on 02/12/2024 7:04:24 AM PST by bitt

This weekend, Senate Democrats (joined by a few Republicans, including most Republican leadership) forced through a “security supplemental” that spends close to $100 billion, most of it on Ukraine. It was the culmination of months of secretive negotiations on border security. Those negotiations produced a border security product unacceptable to most Republicans, so then Republicans voted it down, and then an hour later we were debating a security supplemental with border security stripped out.

The quick pivot, refusal to negotiate another round on border security, and immediate shift to blame Trump confirmed one thing: Republican leadership wasn’t serious about border security. They cared most about Ukraine funding and saw the border negotiations as a distraction. This extinguished any hope of real border security before the negotiation began.

The story our leadership tells is that the “politics of border security” had changed because of Donald Trump. James Lankford dutifully negotiated a bipartisan border product. Conservative Republicans encouraged this negotiation. When the product took shape, Donald Trump demanded conservatives walk. Trump argued that Joe Biden didn’t need a border security package—which was true—so Republicans should ask simply that Joe Biden do his job. This intervention allegedly killed a great piece of border policy.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestmcconnell; electioninteference; followthemoney; foreignagents; rinosaretraitors; rinosedition; senate; senatecorruption; trump; ukrainelobbyists
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1 posted on 02/12/2024 7:04:24 AM PST by bitt
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To: bitt
breaking: https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1757046701754302493?

This new Ukraine bill tries to make it ILLEGAL for Trump to do what he is promising on the campaign trail.

It is a plot against the President Trump, plain and simple.


2 posted on 02/12/2024 7:05:57 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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3 posted on 02/12/2024 7:06:13 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

“...great piece of border policy...”

Seriously, JD? That was great policy?


4 posted on 02/12/2024 7:08:36 AM PST by Wasichu
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To: bitt

The House should insist on a provision setting aside all pending and completed legal actions against him.


5 posted on 02/12/2024 7:10:13 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: bitt
1) The so-called border security package provided for a codification into law of Biden's current illegal open borders policy, allowed fast tracking of granting asylum to illegal migrants which is also an automatic 5 year pathway to citizenship, and would have guaranteed that many more millions of migrants from around the world would continue to flock and overrun our border.

2) The so-called stand-alone Ukraine funding deal contains an impeachment trap for Trump should he win re-election by preventing him from not spending all of the money allocated in the bill, even if Trump negotiates a cease-fire between Ukraine and Russia. J.D. Vance is circulating this letter:


6 posted on 02/12/2024 7:13:38 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: bitt

It raises an interesting issue: To what extent can the legislative branch effectively “railroad” an incoming president (or any future president) despite the platform upon which the new president got elected?

All of this is cause primarily because the Republican Party hates most of its voters. The Democrats (despite their complaints) don’t suffer from this phenomena to the same degree.


7 posted on 02/12/2024 7:14:01 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: bitt

Would not such a “kill switch” be unconstitutional?


8 posted on 02/12/2024 7:14:55 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
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9 posted on 02/12/2024 7:17:37 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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To: Bishop_Malachi

Could someone tell me why not just Romney, Murkowski and Collins voting for this but why are Kennedy of Louisiana, Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma and Young of Indiana, among other supposed “conservatives” approving this garbage??


10 posted on 02/12/2024 7:17:47 AM PST by laconic
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The complete J.D. Vance letter being circulated among Republicans:



11 posted on 02/12/2024 7:18:28 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: bitt

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12 posted on 02/12/2024 7:18:59 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: laconic

$$$$$$.


13 posted on 02/12/2024 7:19:12 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: bitt

Ukraine can sell war bonds.

Ukraine can sell territory to Poland and Hungary.

Ukraine can sell territory to billionaires for new independent countries.

Israel can sell war bonds and building lots.

The Palestinian Authority can sell Gaza offshore extraction rights.

Congress can wise up.


14 posted on 02/12/2024 7:31:46 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Yo-Yo

So, yes.


15 posted on 02/12/2024 7:32:28 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
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To: bitt

Deep State rule 1: heads I win, tails you lose.


16 posted on 02/12/2024 7:36:41 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Yo-Yo

📌


17 posted on 02/12/2024 7:38:56 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: bitt
Our Elite care not for we peasants or for our posterity.

Young people are already saddled with destructive levels of debt and with a foreign-born cadre of criminal invaders who view them a easy marks.

Rank-and-file Democrats will suffer most and it will be just desserts for their covetous greed.

The actual perps (you know their names) will avoid the repercussions of their treachery.

I pray we can last another 15-20 years but I doubt it.

Please pass the radioactive roots and berries.

18 posted on 02/12/2024 7:40:38 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Wish I was rich enough to believe Leftist BS!)
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To: Wasichu

Your comment is unfair and out of context. JD used the word “allegedly” before “great piece of border policy.” He was simply describing the establishment narrative, not agreeing with it.


19 posted on 02/12/2024 7:48:21 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: bitt

This intervention allegedly killed a great piece of border policy.

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This pretty much tells you everything you need to know about who JD Vance really is.....


20 posted on 02/12/2024 7:54:54 AM PST by mlitefan (Long time lurker...)
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