Posted on 02/13/2020 8:29:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON -- In the week since his acquittal on impeachment charges, a fully emboldened President Donald Trump is demonstrating his determination to assert an iron grip on government, pushing his Justice Department to ease up on a longtime friend while using the levers of presidential powers to exact payback on real and perceived foes.
Trump has told confidants in recent days that he felt both vindicated and strengthened by his acquittal in the Senate, believing Republicans have rallied around him in unprecedented fashion while voters were turned off by the political process, according to four White House officials and Republicans close to the West Wing who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.
Since then, Trump and his aides have moved with haste to clear his administration of those he sees as insufficiently loyal, reaching all the way back to the time of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Democrats and outside analysts are raising red flags that Trump is exhibiting a post-impeachment thirst for vengeance that’s gone beyond bending norms and could potentially cause lasting damage to institutions.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, accused Trump of being on a “retribution tour” and suggested that Senate Republicans — with the exception of Utah’s Mitt Romney, who voted with Democrats to convict Trump on the abuse of power count — encouraged the president by turning a blind eye to his conduct.
“It’s pretty clear the president of the United States did learn a lesson: the lesson he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, he can abuse his office, he’ll never ever be held accountable by this Senate,” Brown said. “
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Many heads need to roll - and that’s a fact, Jack !
I fail to see the problem.
Yeah why not
Everything was fake from the get go associated press and if you were truly responsible journalists you would never let it get that far
Screw you and your opinionated stupidity
A by line of three tells you that the “some critics” consist of the authors.
Brown is SUCH an a-hole. Why did the good people in Ohio re-elect this scumbag?
Well, they wanted an apology tour, instead.
No one deserves a retribution tour more than President Trump.
To Dems:
You had every chance to pull back from the water’s edge of blaming an innocent man for a crime you had to spend 3 years looking for.
Nobody forced you to take that morally criminal action, knowing Trump is innocent and just trying to destroy him out of hate.
Therefore....
If you don’t like doin’ the time
then don’t do the crime.
It sure as heck should be the “Turn the other cheek tour”!
Trump was liberated by acquittal. Now he can do what he wants. The Democrats tried to kill the king and they failed.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost. Good.
Their whining is music to my ears.
The Bolsheviks are getting nervous. Good!
There’s not a problem - the bimbos and pretentious boys at the AP are tying to create a problem. Can’t think of one person who trusts the AP anymore.
Even Gandhi would do a retribution tour after the way DJT has been treated by the government he was elected to lead.
OMG! These people are nuts!
So they spend THREE + freaking years and a s**tload of taxpayer money lying to every American, harassing the President, accusing the right of everything under the sun, calling us vile names, jailing opposition just cuz etc etc etc
and they expect NO retribution???????
Wow! Just Wow!
The President doesn’t do apology tours. He punches right back and I don’t care whether or not the Democrats ike it.
He’s delivering to them an object lesson on what happens when you lose.
They would be doing exactly the same thing had the tables been turned. They can take their hypocrisy and stuff it.
If it was a Democrat it would be a “vindication” tour.
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