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.
Reminds me of a show I saw the other night where the guy had to admit his guilt to be considered for parole.
Puff boy will likely get his too
They got a lot of gall asking for donations with our country imploding ad they are a big part of the cause.
GOP is dead to Trump voters ..at the federal level...
This type of thinking is exactly a clear case of insurrection. When the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution are subverted, then it qualifies for insurrection. And when it is done in a way that over rules close to half of the population of the entire country, it is in mass.
Trump could easily have been considered the most successful president, at least on the financial side, of any in history. And that is why it was considered so important by one party to make sure he was out and now can’t return. They can’t allow a free market to exist that they don’t control. But the removing of that choice for political and not legal purposes should not be allowed when it is being accomplished by political reasons and not for legal ones.
It is being said that if Trump shuts up, they’ll leave him alone. If he’s guilty of something then prove it. If he’s breaking a law, prove it. It should not be allowed for less than 700 people to overstep 70 million voters that wish to see Trump in the oval office representing them because 700 people will lose their political clout.
As for the election, we don’t know who won. There were so many proven voter fraud instances that one would not know where to start to figure out what the vote count really was or if the votes were legal. For all we know, a write in candidate could have won. This is like an iceberg. You only see the top of it. And these are the ones that were discovered without even looking for them over two Trump elections.
https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud
So, since there is a question as to the reality of the count, then do it again. A couple of weeks won’t make that much of a difference. And if the count is done correctly, with everyone watching and having a say, we can get it right and know who actually won. Otherwise, that 700 people will be separating the 70 million people from their Constitutional say. And doing it for four years from now when the choice of the people may change. But not the way the 700 don’t want it to happen.
wy69
Rove and the Bush and Cheney families are starting to make Norway rats look honorable.
Karl Rove needs an attitude adjustment.
Karl Rove needs an ALtitude adjustment.................................................
Money spends in either party, its just easier to give in, goodbye my country this of thee.
Wait, wait, wait,
House votes to impeach after holding zero debate, arguments etc, for inciting insurrection...
And rove says Trump needs to stop talking about election fraud, or senate will convict???
How are those the same things?
Just go away rove!
GOPe behind the coup, as we’ve been saying for years.
No doubt about it Rove was in on the steal!
Fox News is now WOKE. Fox News Ratings Crash: Trailing CNN and MSNBC For The First Time Since 2000 Since the beginning of the century, Fox News has “consistently been the most-watched, and arguably the most influential, cable news outlet — by a mile,” according to Mediaite, with viewers becoming accustomed “to lengthy stretches in which the total combined viewership of CNN and MSNBC was less than the number of people tuning into Fox News.” In April of 2010, Mediate even published a piece titled “Fox News Ratings Dominance Hits Nice Round Number: 100 Months At #1.” However, for 8 days in a row, Fox news has “been in last place in the cable news ratings,” with critics reporting on their sudden fall from the top spot. According to the Daily Beast, this sudden post-election decline has driven Rupert Murdoch to take “a more hands-on role,” and that “multiple network insiders” have said that “Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace are fighting for their jobs.” Salon also reported that Sean Hannity, one of Fox News’ biggest stars, was experiencing a “3-to-1 ratings loss against CNN as he follows Trump into post-election madness.”
Give him what he wants Mr. President.
“I Donald J Trump, under duress by blackmail of impeachment proceedings by the GOP establishment, do affirm that there was no election fraud.”
Then NAME them.
President Donald Trump has changed things forever. We hoi polloi are not taking any more marching orders from the likes of Karl Rove or Bitch McConnell.
Rove is just another evil bastage
Karl Rove is a DENIER
Just like Fox News, the GOP is dead to me.
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