Posted on 12/27/2020 11:36:36 AM PST by RandFan
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Sunday urged President Trump to sign the coronavirus aid package that has passed Congress, warning the president’s legacy is at stake.
“You don’t get everything you want, even if you’re president of the United States,” Toomey said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I think the COVID relief measures are really, really important.”
“In my state, as in many other states, we have governors who are closing down businesses again,” he added.
Toomey called it a “hopeful sign” that Trump has not yet vetoed the bill passed by Congress, even as he has demanded larger direct payments of $2,000 to Americans.
The Pennsylvania senator suggested that the president was thinking of his legacy with the demand but said that “he’ll be remembered for chaos and misery and erratic behavior if he allows this to expire.”
“I understand the president would like to send bigger checks to everybody. ... I think what he ought to do is sign this bill and then make the case,” Toomey said. “I don’t agree with $2,000 to people who have had no lost income whatsoever, but the president’s free to make that case.”
Asked about Trump’s recent round of presidential pardons, Toomey said former national security adviser Michael Flynn was the victim of prosecutorial misconduct and that it was “perfectly legitimate to pardon him.”
However, he said that in “some of these other cases we have tax fraud, bank fraud, witness tampering, obstruction of justice,” in an apparent reference to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Toomey compared the pardons to former President Clinton’s pardon of financier and Democratic donor Marc Rich.
“It is legal, it is constitutional, but I think it’s a misuse of the power,” Toomey said.
yea the hogs need slopping,, getting thin..
He’s why I laugh at people who say we should call our senators and ask for a fair vote. This p*ick is my senator, so I’ll save my time.
At his point,Trump has no reason not to torpedo the GOP in anyway possible.
Would Trump favor this same exact bill with all the extraneous spending if it also included $2000 checks?
The irony of this statement is apparently lost on this moron. Thank God he’s not running for re-election in 2022.
TELL YOUR ‘EFFING GOVERNOR TO LEAVE YOUR CITIZENS THE HELL ALONE, AND YOU WON’T NEED A STUPID COVID RELIEF BILL.
Where does Patty stand on vote corruption in his state?
I don’t think so. He wants a clean bill (I think)
No.
Nanzi Pelogsi is trying to ram it through that way. Pass the current bill AND a second bill for more money for citizens.
Toomey sure does protest much, wondering if it has anything to do with him being a Pennsylvania politician? Something you aren’t telling us you major LOOSER?
NO! WAY TOO MUCH FOREIGN TRASH MONEY!
Some threat, Toomey.
Just guessing the Pat Toomey is involved in ELECTION FRAUD ALSO!!! He’s a LAWYER and doesn’t want the LAW FOLLOWED!
Toomey is a loon and always has been.
He used to campaign as a fiscal conservative.
What a fraud.
Toomey will be remembered for a Senator that allowed and supported the theft of a Presidential election. Fortunately, when he least expects it he will pay for it.
So what else is new from the swamp-creatures?
Probably. He has no choice. This is how massively powerful our Founders made the House of Representatives, and thus its Speaker.
Seeing a politician doing the right thing is so alien to a hack like Toomey he can’t comprehend it.
None of them are to be trusted. Nearly all of them will stab Trump and us in the back whenever it suits them.
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