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.
I suspect that’s a 50-50 proposition. The only reason he might vote to convict Trump is if he thinks Trump will upend the GOP again in 2024. But that could happened even if he is convicted, and I’m sure McConnell knows that.
But truly a bastard.
It’s the politics of personal destruction thing. He dared to oppose those in charge.
Regardless of what Trump does at this point, they are going to hound him to his grave.
Cannot stand that bloated gasbag.
The Lincoln Project with, it pervert head, organized the GOPe against President Trump. It was a good thing Kellyanne Conway stayed with the Trump Administration so she could funnel tactics information that her husband was engaged in with that organization. If Trump had been reelected, the Lincoln Project team might have been indicted for subversion.
So Turdblossom is still relevant?
They have no leverage. Convicting Trump would be dropping a nuke on the GOP, it would not survive. Trump will call their bluff.
Rove, kiss my poo.
so the GOP was in on the Steal
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I don’t differentiate between the GOPe and the supposedly larger GOP. The former would have no influence if it wasn’t enabled by the latter so it’s the entire party that is the problem.
ANY GOP individual who votes to impeach The greatest president in modern times needs to be voted OUT. That’s house or the senate !!
Vote OUT the RINOS.
MAGA !!L
75:million strong !!!
Just laugh at them. They are such wimps. #Blacklist CNN.
They, the GOPe, are talking about the Senate trial of the 2nd ‘Impeachment’ AFTER HE LEAVES OFFICE, which would be UNCONSTITUTIONAL, but they don’t give a damn about the Constitution anyways....................
They are talking about not allowing Trump to present ANY defense at the Senate trial.
Like Hillary did want to do to Nixon.............................
Salem rising gathering wood.
“He appeared on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace to deliver the threat.”
I thought fellatio was prohibited on public TV?
I had my doubts but Georgia and Rove put them to rest.
Can’t impeach when he’s out of office.
There is no crime at all let alone a high crime or misdemeanor they could convict him of anyway.
Stolen election. Stolen election. Stolen election.
Shove it Rove.
They were in on it up to their ears.
Can I copy and paste? Well said.
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