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Trump’s calls for political vengeance worry Senate GOP
The Hill ^ | 06/10/24 6:00 AM ET | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 06/10/2024 10:25:42 AM PDT by RandFan

Some Senate Republicans are expressing concerns over former President Trump’s calls for political vengeance after the 2024 election, warning that retaliatory prosecutions will lead the country down a bad road.

The Senate GOP’s top leaders — Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Whip John Thune (S.D.) — have shown no desire to embrace Trump’s calls to prosecute senior Biden administration officials or his longtime nemesis Hillary Clinton.

And some GOP senators are pushing back against conservative colleagues who want to freeze Justice Department funding or defund special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal prosecutions of Trump.

They don’t want to stumble into a government shutdown by waging war over the Justice Department’s budget or taking other retaliatory steps favored by Trump’s allies.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) says he thought Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) case against Trump was “an unjust prosecution.”

But he’s concerned about Trump’s vow to retaliate with politically motivated prosecutions from his own Justice Department if he’s elected in November.

“This is not the direction we want this country to go,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexanderbolton; bushcrimefamily; johnthune; mikerounds; mitchmcconnell; rinosedition
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To: RandFan

He never mentioned revenge in that interview. He redirected Phil to the concept that these seditionists and the Biden bribery racket committed very serious crimes, and that justice requires it get examined in court.

He never said revenge.


21 posted on 06/10/2024 10:35:13 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: ArcadeQuarters

Yeah... we’re already there... either fight or die.


22 posted on 06/10/2024 10:35:17 AM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: RandFan

Yeah I keep meaning to watch that


23 posted on 06/10/2024 10:35:44 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: RandFan

Trump should start with the GOP Senate.


24 posted on 06/10/2024 10:36:01 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: RandFan

“ retaliatory prosecutions will lead the country down a bad road”

That boat sailed a long time ago and Mitch McCrooked helped make it happen


25 posted on 06/10/2024 10:36:30 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Mitch McConnell, an embarrassment to turtles worldwide.


26 posted on 06/10/2024 10:37:01 AM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: RandFan

Those opposing political vengeance (for real crime) against the left need an anal probe into their corruption to eliminate them from their betrayal of the people. Mitch should be the first on the platform with the view that no tyrant should die a natural death.


27 posted on 06/10/2024 10:37:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: DocRock
#19: "Mitch must be scared he'll back his Tesla into a lake while he's locked inside."

I hope Ling-ling is riding shotgun.

28 posted on 06/10/2024 10:38:23 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: DesertRhino

They do quote him in the article so perhaps it needs double checking?

I haven’t seen the interview myself


29 posted on 06/10/2024 10:38:29 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: DesertRhino

They do quote him in the article so perhaps it needs double checking?

I haven’t seen the interview myself


30 posted on 06/10/2024 10:38:29 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: Steve_Seattle

And it’s pushing back with legitimate crimes democrats have committed not made up bull droppings Bragg and co came up with to charge Trump with.


31 posted on 06/10/2024 10:40:19 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: RandFan

...worry Senate RINOS


32 posted on 06/10/2024 10:40:28 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: A Mississippian

If they have not violated the law, they have nothing to worry about?


33 posted on 06/10/2024 10:41:10 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: RandFan

An agency that can send out ~30 agents to collect a few boxes of documents is excessively funded.


34 posted on 06/10/2024 10:41:16 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: RandFan

Rounds sounds like a pussy.

A stupid pussy, who can’t seem to acknowledge that the democrats are the ones “moving the goalposts” with their nefarious lawfare political agenda.

“An eye for an eye” is what is needed at this juncture.


35 posted on 06/10/2024 10:41:51 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: RandFan

“...[Trump’s] longtime nemesis Hillary Clinton.”

You’re not alone, President Trump! That witch has been a MAJOR threat to ‘democracy.’

Yes, I know. We do NOT have a ‘democracy’ as the Socialists are so fond of saying at every opportunity. We have a Representative Republic. Kinda. :(


36 posted on 06/10/2024 10:43:11 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: oil_dude

There is a lot of those and Rounds is their spokesman


37 posted on 06/10/2024 10:44:47 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

The Democrats opened Pandora’s Box .... sow the wind.... reap the whirlwind....


38 posted on 06/10/2024 10:45:10 AM PDT by Still a Patriot
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To: RandFan

I have never heard Trump say that. What I have heard is Democrats say that is what he will do. Any time Trump has addressed the subject it is always targeted at those who have abused their positions of power to break the law. And of course, the likes of Thune and McConnell, two of the weakest Republican senators, will believe anything that is negative to Trump and the Leftist The Hill will push anything anti Trump.


39 posted on 06/10/2024 10:46:38 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: Steve_Seattle

And as usual, the RINOS DC swamp evil spineless POS Republicans in the hellhole of of Congress get all linguine! We will never win a fight against the progressive evil, left-wing communist, Marxist rats with people we have on our side in Congress and the Senate. Never! If we don’t get rid of them, vote them out we will never have victories again. President Trump is only one man and he has on his side maybe if he’s lucky 12 truly patriots in both Congress and Senate but other than that, the rest are elitist privileged, spoiled evil spineless anti-American Republicans. Who will make trumps presidency in the next four years, a living hell for him and the American people. All those in Congress and the Senate are a deadly virus, a cancer that needs to be removed or else America is done! EU Is beginning to get the ball rolling I hope what’s happening in Europe will happen in America too.


40 posted on 06/10/2024 10:48:04 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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