Posted on 01/18/2021 7:35:15 AM PST by Red Badger
Republican Party establishment strategist Karl Rove is informing President Donald Trump that he will likely be impeached unless he stops talking about electoral fraud.
Rove is trying to use the president’s precarious position following the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol to pressure him into folding. He appeared on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace to deliver the threat.
Wallace asked: “Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says that he is keeping an open mind about the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, a big difference, sharp difference, from his clear opposition from the very start of the first impeachment trial just a year ago. What do you think, Karl, are the chances that 17 Senate Republicans, and that’s what it would take if all of the Democrats vote for conviction, 17 Senate Republicans would vote to convict Donald Trump and to keep them from running again?”
Rove responded: “Normally we say not much chance, but I think Leader McConnell’s statement is a sign that every Republican Senator needs to take this seriously. I think it’s all going to boil down what’s the president’s defense. Rudy Giuliani charted a very bad course for the president in the morning papers when he suggested that the argument was going to be in there couldn’t have been incitement because all the charges of widespread voter fraud are true. Well, those charges and the so-called experts that the campaign has mustered to advocate them have been rejected by over 50 courts with judges appointed by President Trump, President Obama, Present Bush, President Clinton, and I think even one Reagan justice. So if it’s the Rudy Giuliani defense, there is a strong likelihood that more than 17 Republicans will because essentially that argument is this was justified, the attack on the Capital and the attempt to end the congressional hearing on certifying the election was justified because all these charges are true and frankly they aren’t. They have been given every opportunity to prove them in a court of law and have failed to do so. I think it really boils down to what’s the defense that the president is going to make, and if it is Rudy Giuliani’s defense, I think it raises the likelihood of more than 17 Republicans voting for conviction.”
Big League Politics has reported on how the Republican establishment is joining the Democrats to railroad the president:
Mitch McConnell is reportedly “pleased” about the possibility of Trump’s second impeachment, viewing it as an opportunity to purge Trump from the Republican Party and whatever else Conservative Inc. deems “toxic.”
In a New York Times report published Monday afternoon, Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman write that the outgoing Senate Majority Leader believes Trump committed “impeachable offenses.” McConnell also welcomes impeachment in order to justify dumping Trump and shedding his influence over the GOP.
“Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, has indicated that he wants to see the specific article of impeachment that the House is set to approve on Wednesday, which is expected to draw support from as many as a dozen Republicans, potentially including Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the party’s No. 3 in the House,” the report reads. “But he has made clear in private discussions that he believes now is the moment to move on the weakened lame duck, whom he blames for causing Republicans to lose the Senate.”
The Times also claims that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, although personally opposed to impeachment, has decided along with “other party leaders” to not formally lobby Republicans to vote “no” and is open to censuring the president. McCarthy discussed with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer a plan to get Republicans on board with a formal censure, but only if Democrats “backed off” from impeachment.
The GOP establishment may destroy their entire party because they hate President Trump’s America First agenda so much.
The only house cleaning they will do is getting rid of Hannity and Carlson.
Fix News is part of the Ministry of Propaganda.
“Bow down and worship me.”
This is Biblical!
Trump to Rove: If I deny election fraud, then I’ll be a liar like you. So, that’s a ‘No’, Rove. Now, push off.
First, there was election fraud and second the GOP is in on it.
Screw them. Hannity and Carlson should move to a different network real soon if they’re patriots.
I really think these people need to be making plans for themselves. They do not seem to understand who Trump is. He will not hesitate, once tgey have rejected his offer to come clean, to treat them with the full extent of the law.
Karl Rove - The Architect of the Never-Trumper’s Doom.
So he should accept a falsehood or he can’t play in your pond? Again the United States Senate has become a group of Mullah who determine who can run to serve as President under Ayatollah Zuckerberg. Who cares if he gets impeached. Worst comes to worst you can just ignore the constitution and run again since that particular document does not have any meaning in this new form of government.
Absolutely. Don’t believe your Lying eyes when Mr. Pulitzer’s company hacked into Dominion voting machines during the GA hearing; Don’t believe your lying eyes when video surfaced of those “nice ladies” pulling suitcases of ballots out from under a table and running them several times through the machines; Don’t believe your eyes when you read about the Dominion voting machines 68 percent fail rate Michigan; Don’t believe your lying eyes or ears about AZ or PA or WI and the scores of stories of voter fraud!
But most of all, sit back and shut up about your Senator voting to certify ELECTION FRAUD. Just shut up and go about spending that 600.00 dollars so generously and benevolently given to you by you betters.
They need 17 out of 50 Republicans to vote to convict. I suspect they can’t find that many.... but who knows? I’m guessing less than 10. Romney, Collins, Murkowski, Sasse, Lee, and possibly a handful more.
Says the guy who drove GW’s approval to 20%.
If old man Rupert Murdoch does not fire FNC, Chris Wallace and FNC/FBN, Neil Cavuto Fox News Corporation is a dead cable TV network channel!!!
Depends on how much arm twisting McConnell can do. Withholding Senate GOP re-election cash is a big lever.......................
Trump should ignore them until the impeachment trial sham is over. Just make the case that a private citizen cannot be put on trial. After it’s over and he’s acquitted, then he can start blasting in the media about the stolen election. What are they going to do, impeach him a THIRD time?
I’m guessing McConnell will convict Trump. It’s his last term in the Senate.
Wasn’t President Trump already impeached? Twice? And the most recent was just last week?
So what is GOPe mouthpiece Rover threatening to do? Impeach him a 3rd time?
Or is he talking about removing Trump from office? Well, Trump is scheduled to leave office the day after tomorrow. So is he talking about removing Trump from office after he has already left office?
What the hell is this idiot talking about?
All the lies, deceit and fraud that are being used to attack President Trump are swirling around the central issue of election fraud. Everything is an attempt to divert the focus from the evidence uncovered in the 2020 elections. That the evidence was painted with false legal mischaracterizations as “unfounded” and lacked “standing,” did not give the evidence the true justice it deserved. It stigmatized the evidence as being “unfounded” without any true examination of its truth and is being used to indict President Trump without merit. It is that injustice that will paint a black mark in history of the 2020 elections and what happened to President Trump.
I don’t think McConnell is going to twist arms. I’m not even sure how he himself is going to vote.
I have a new respect for Kafka.
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