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FUCK THESE CRETINS
Top Republican senators defend Trump's church photo-op after peaceful protesters cleared out
Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the GOP leadership team, said the protesters had to be cleared out "for security purposes" since Trump was "walking over to the church" and they were asked to clear "but refused to do so."
"So obviously, it was a necessary security measure," Cornyn told CNN. Cornyn rejected the notion that they were acting peacefully since they can't "ignore what law enforcement officers are telling them to do for the security of the president or anybody else."
Asked if the President should have gone to the church for a photo-op that led to tear gas and other measures to be used on the protesters, Cornyn criticized the media and others who are "never going to find any good or any positive development in anything. So you can characterize it the way you want, but obviously the President is free to go where he wants and to hold up a Bible if he wants," calling it a "civil message."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/politics/congress-republican-reaction-trump-church/index.html
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
spanone
(135,838 posts)Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)I have zero respect for ANYONE in the gop
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)There
Is
No
Bottom
People
Need
To
Learn
That
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)This is just a Monday for them.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)He could have handled that differently and seized the spotlight and the narrative to make himself actually look brave and sincere (which he will NEVER BE) instead of cheap huckster (which he IS)...
Trump should have gone out to face the demonstrators with a Secret Service advance team creating a security corridor and bringing in screened protesters for an impromptu discussion. He could have hand picked the people he wanted to be on screen and he could have done a lot to quell the anger in the country...
WTF am I thinking? OF COURSE the moron-in-chief is not making it any easier on the country or actually giving a damn about leading the nation or healing its wounds. Fuck Donald Trump, hard, with rusty garden tools, for a very long time...
malaise
(269,004 posts)Fuck everyone of them
spanone
(135,838 posts)cayugafalls
(5,640 posts)One fugly dude who needs to be shuffled off to the funny farm and sedated.
He is a disgusting human whose own skin looks like it is trying to escape...
JHB
(37,160 posts)Trump's li(n)e of the day is that no gas was used. One of his usual bald-faced lies, but I suppose a hat-tip to Grassley for inadvertently contradicting him.
he looks sad
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)struggle4progress
(118,285 posts)and just like the hundred thousand covid nineteen dead
Cornyn doesn't care
That teargas keeps fallin on my head. It keeps fallin
So I just did me some talkin bout that jerk
And I said I didn't like the way he does no work
He's sleeping on the job
That teargas keeps fallin on my head. It keeps fallin
But there's one thing I know
The gas they send to meet us won't defeat us
It won't be long til November comes to greet us
Teargas keep falling on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will always be so red
Crying's not for me
cause I'm never gonna stop that jerk by complaining
Because we'll see
how we set ourselves free
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Ritabert
(667 posts)Cornyn is a Trump toady and McConnell sidekick who needs to be voted out.
unblock
(52,236 posts)I'm sure if Hillary or Obama or Biden did the same thing they'd be fine with it
Cha
(297,240 posts)Protestors.. there is no defense.. only Condemnation.
RAB910
(3,501 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)If there is ever justice, put these hateful turds at the front of the line
crickets
(25,980 posts)Stuart G
(38,427 posts)Grokenstein
(5,723 posts)How else would it be safe for God Emperor Hair Furor to appear outside and show America that he was unafraid of them, from behind a swarm of agents??
Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)clearing a church by FORCE.
One minute its supposedly the SS who made the call to take the whiney little coward to the WH bunker to "protect" him from protesters separated from him by one of the most secure perimeters in the nation and the next day deem an area immediately OUTSIDE that perimeter that had to be cleared BY FORCE, safe enough for him take a stroll.
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)they think they can take it back to the slavery days and really want to.
We have to find a way to beat their vote suppression and defeat it soundly
They also call for getting rid of those that have been in D C for so long, but never include themselves.
Gaud I'm sick of this shit.
Grins
(7,217 posts)Cornyn instead pointed at the Reichs favor target, the media, adding the vicious orange viper is free to go where he wants.
Why didnt the reporter come back with, That wasnt the question. SHOULD he have gone at all?
Make him sweat
Hav
(5,969 posts)Make some room, peasants!