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.
Even when he challenged Specter in 2004 primary, he must have been a phony.
“ At his point,Trump has no reason not to torpedo the GOP in anyway possible.”
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Hear, hear. Not only does Trump have no reason not to, but the same applies for all red blooded American patriots.
He is retiring in ‘22...
I am tempted to post something to Toomey that I’m sure would get me banned forever from freerepublic so I will keep my mouth shut!
Lex
Toomey who?
Rooney is a RINO.
SHUT UP !
MAGA !!
Both sides are holding relief on which they agree hostage to provisions on which they disagree. Hard to tell who is going to come out ahead politically. Probably the side that can best explain its case.
Toobin, tube snake boogy, Jeffrey Toobin.
One more ‘stick a fork in it’ politico.
Pork, The meat of the swamp elite.
What do the LIEberal blackmailers have on him?
He used to be an OK conservative.
TOOMEY was NEVER a Trump supporter OR A NICE GUY.
He is nothing more than a Corporate TOOl.
Toomey with Romney and Warren.
This says it all. Can’t tell the difference.
RINOS and democrats all out of the same mold.
Losers.
Yep, that aid to Egypt and performing arts centers will make the virus go away for sure!
AND PAT TOOMEY WILL BE REMEMBERED AS A ‘BACK STABBER’...
SO GLAD HE DECIDED NOT TO STAY IN CONGRESS..HE IS ANOTHER WORTHLESS BOUGHT AND PAID OFF FRAUD...
The last 40 days have sure shook out the rinos. It’s not too early to begin setting up primary challenges.
Toomey is trying to get people to feel sorry they voted for him. He is a jackass and instead of quietly quitting, he is pulling a democrat-style retreat from office. He has no clue what he is doing to his memory!
Then take all the pork out of it!!!!!!
It’s 70% pork!!!
This a**hole has been in office way too long
Pennsylvanians should be embarrassed by the tools they elect.
I hate these traitors within more than any Democrat.
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