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Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 11:03 AM Aug 2020

Time for Republicans to call for Trmp's resignation?

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/carl-bernstein-donald-trump-nixon-era-move-105241610.html

Carl Bernstein Names Nixon-Era Move GOPers Should Pull To Protect U.S. From Trump

Carl Bernstein on Friday urged Republican leaders to stand up to President Donald Trump by taking a page out of the GOP’s Nixon-era playbook.

The famed Watergate reporter noted how the top GOP leaders in Congress in 1974 “marched to the White House” and told then-President Richard Nixon “he had to leave office because of what he had done to undermine the national interest through his reckless and outrageous and illegal acts” during the Watergate scandal.

“Something similar is needed now,” Bernstein said on CNN’s “New Day,” describing Trump as “dangerous” and “not capable or stable enough” to lead the country.


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Time for Republicans to call for Trmp's resignation? (Original Post) Binkie The Clown Aug 2020 OP
REALLY do you have to ask this question? Zoonart Aug 2020 #1
Well, they let him skate when he was impeached for betraying his country. GoCubsGo Aug 2020 #2
Well, it wasn't a consensual BJ... Lock him up. Aug 2020 #8
This should be done, but I doubt it will be. Mickju Aug 2020 #3
It's way past that time. They hope the voters remove him from office so Arkansas Granny Aug 2020 #4
IMO, the GOP will never do that, they will not have a Nixon Redux. Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #5
They want the election to do their dirty work for them. chriscan64 Aug 2020 #6
What's the point? rsdsharp Aug 2020 #7
He's assuming the GOP has integrity. C_U_L8R Aug 2020 #9
Will not happen. That brand of Republican died off a decade or so ago. crickets Aug 2020 #10
Good idea. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 #11
It's a nice thought. Iggo Aug 2020 #12

GoCubsGo

(32,079 posts)
2. Well, they let him skate when he was impeached for betraying his country.
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 11:15 AM
Aug 2020

I can't imagine they have found their souls now, or that they ever will.

Lock him up.

(6,925 posts)
8. Well, it wasn't a consensual BJ...
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 11:44 AM
Aug 2020

No. Those who cheated their way into power have not found their souls. Forget that.
Powerless sideliners can opine all they want, they don't recon today's gReedy cheateR$.

RICO TRUMP$ AND ACCOMPLICE$
BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE (ALREADY IS)

Mickju

(1,800 posts)
3. This should be done, but I doubt it will be.
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 11:19 AM
Aug 2020

Republicans do not have enough integrity to do the right thing.

Arkansas Granny

(31,514 posts)
4. It's way past that time. They hope the voters remove him from office so
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 11:20 AM
Aug 2020

they don't alienate his cult. They're relying on those votes for their own future.

I've noticed the only Republicans that stand up to him are the ones not running for re-election. The rest keep kissing his ass.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
5. IMO, the GOP will never do that, they will not have a Nixon Redux.
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 11:22 AM
Aug 2020

They will deny, lie, cover up everything to avoid another GOP President's exit without them losing the election.

chriscan64

(1,789 posts)
6. They want the election to do their dirty work for them.
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 11:23 AM
Aug 2020

People dying and weakened position globally matter less to them than keeping Trump's voters after he's gone.

rsdsharp

(9,165 posts)
7. What's the point?
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 11:39 AM
Aug 2020

A. They won’t do it.

B. If they did it wouldn’t work. Nixon resigned because it was that or the Senate would vote to convict once he was impeached. That ship has already sailed.

crickets

(25,962 posts)
10. Will not happen. That brand of Republican died off a decade or so ago.
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 12:42 PM
Aug 2020

There have been glimmers now and then (McCain's ACA vote) but for the most part, they all shuffled off this mortal coil at about the same time Nixon did.

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