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All Trump supporters are turd squirters. He goes both ways.
Republican Trump Lover Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned
from Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing
him flirting with a 16-year old boy.
Republican Trump Lover aide Alan David Berlin was arrested on
charges that he wanted to engage in sex acts with a 15-year-old
boy while dressed in a panda costume.
Republican Trump Lover news producer Aaron Bruns was arrested
on charges of possessing child pornography.
Republican Trump Lover activist and former presidential
campaign chairman Jeffrey Claude Bartleson was arrested on
charges of sexually molesting a 5-year old boy.
Republican Trump Lover activist and former chairman of the
Christian County Republican Trump Lovers Royce Fessenden
pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree child molestation
and one count of second-degree statutory sodomy.
Republican Trump Lover parole board officer and former
legislator George C. (Chris) Ortloff pleaded guilty to
attempting to lure 11- and 12-year-old girls to have sex with
him.
Republican Trump Lover legislative aide Robert R. Groezinger
was arrested for possessing child pornography.
Republican Trump Lover legislator Robert A. McKee pleaded
guilty to possessing child pornography.
Republican Trump Lover legislator Scott Muschany was charged
with molesting a 14-year old girl.
Republican Trump Lover chief of staff Eric Feltner pleaded
guilty to showing pornography to a 13-year old girl.
Republican Trump Lover presidential campaign official Matthew
Joseph Elliott was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child.
Republican Trump Lover Party Chairman Donald Fleischman was
charged with two counts of child enticement, two counts of
contributing to the delinquency of a child and a single charge
of exposing himself to a child.
Republican Trump Lover prosecutor John David Roy Atchison was
arrested for soliciting sex from a 5-year old girl, then killed
himself three weeks later. At the time of his arrest, Atchison
was an "assistant U.S. attorney" appointed by President Bush's
attorney general.
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Trump's Treason - Even The Seditious NRA Pedophiles Abandoning Ship
These are dark times in Trumpworld. Politico reports that President Trump
“is using his relatively light schedule to watch TV and fume about the
latest scandal,” which makes him sound very relatable but also very sad.
The New York Times, meanwhile, offers a portrait of a White House crippled
by infighting and completely unable to keep its story straight in the wake
of new revelations about Donald Trump Jr.’s apparent eagerness to cooperate—some would say collude—with the Russian government to give his father’s presidential campaign a boost.
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I have no insight into what the Trump clan will do to contain the damage
in the days to come. What I’m more interested in is how Republicans in
Congress might react to the ongoing Trump meltdown. Will they abandon the president en masse? Will they stick with him until the bitter end? I’d
divvy GOP lawmakers up into three main categories: those who see
themselves as potential Trump successors; swing staters who fear for their political survival; and the GOP leadership in the House and Senate, who
care first and foremost about passing legislation.
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A short while ago, I argued that ambitious Republicans should start laying
the groundwork for a 2020 campaign right now. The obvious counterargument
is that even contemplating a primary challenge against Trump is
hilariously premature, as he continues to enjoy the support of the vast majority of Republican voters. That’s certainly true, and it remains a
decent reason to hang back.
As the events of the past few days remind us, however, it’s not clear the president is all that deft when it comes to handling a bona fide political crisis, and tying yourself too closely to Trump’s political fortunes is
looking less and less like a safe bet. And besides, could anyone blame a politician for setting himself or herself up as a Plan B for Republicans
in the event of presidential self-immolation? The challenge is that if
you’re going to run for the GOP presidential nomination, you’ll need to
win over people who at one point or another supported Trump. That means
there might be such a thing as being too eager to abandon the president outright. The decision to throw Trump under the bus will have to be made
more in sorrow than in anger.
The deeper problem for those pushing the GOP agenda is that it’s not all
that popular, Trump or no Trump.
Consider the tack taken by Ben Sasse, the youthful senator from Nebraska,
who’s already being asked about his presidential ambitions, and who is
already artfully dodging questions about his intentions. On one level,
Sasse has been quite quick to condemn Trump, rapping him across the
knuckles for intemperate tweets and cozying up to Vladimir Putin, and
going so far as to describe the president’s attacks on the hosts of
MSNBC’s Morning Joe as “beneath the dignity of your office.” But he’s not sticking his neck out by, say, calling for impeachment.
How might Sasse and others in the same boat, such as Florida Sen. Marco
Rubio, start ramping up their criticism? Raising questions about the
propriety of keeping Jared Kushner as a senior adviser to the president
might be a good place to start. Sticking up for Robert Mueller in his role
as special counsel is a no-brainer. And if Trump and his allies can’t
right the ship in a week or two, and if the president starts bleeding GOP support? That’s when the gloves can come off.
Now, say you’re a backbencher who cares about nothing more than getting re-elected. Has the time come to distance yourself from the president? If
your seat is even remotely competitive, the answer is clearly yes. There
is a reason why Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Republican representing a swing
district in New York’s Long Island, felt the need to scold Donald Trump
Jr. in a tweet. To have any hope of winning re-election, Zeldin knew he
had to demonstrate some modicum of independence. This is part of a larger pattern: Many of Trump’s most frequent GOP critics, among them Arizona
Sen. Jeff Flake and Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, are up for re-election in
2018 in states where Democrats are gaining ground. Mind you, many anti-
Trump Republicans in Congress are as motivated by ideological or character-based objections to Trump as they are by political calculation.
But don’t be surprised if Republicans representing purple and blue states
are the ones who are keenest to take Trump to task.
Then there are the Republicans, led by House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who are primarily focused on passing legislation that will move the country in what they take to be a more conservative direction. The goal of pushing through the GOP’s long-
standing domestic policy priorities has given Republicans reason to put
aside any concerns they might have had about Trump.
By now, however, it’s become clear that an understaffed and inexperienced
Trump White House is incapable of knocking heads together and moving the
GOP agenda forward. To the contrary, mixed messages from the president
(one day the GOP’s Obamacare overhaul is terrific, the next day it’s inexcusably mean) and the constant whiff of scandal have stopped the GOP
agenda dead in its tracks. A cynic might say that Trump’s incompetence
could be a blessing in disguise, as passing unpopular legislation could
bite Republicans in the behind come 2018. But that’s small comfort to GOP lawmakers who care most of all about having legislative accomplishments to
crow about.
Will these Republicans leave Trump twisting in the wind? I’m not so sure.
The deeper problem facing those who care about pushing through the GOP
agenda is that it’s not all that popular, Trump or no Trump. A weak Trump
has at least some reason to play ball with a GOP Congress. He doesn’t have
much of a substantive agenda of his own, and he’s in no position to cut
deals with Democrats. If Trump is ensnared in ever more investigations, or
if he is somehow removed from office, the Ryan-McConnell agenda may well
be doomed. That means Ryan and McConnell will likely prefer the devil they know, at least for now.
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