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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 07:42 PM Jan 2021

Whole GOP on trial

Max Boot
Jan. 25, 2021 at 3:54 p.m. EST

When the impeachment proceedings begin in the Senate ... The entire Republican Party will be on trial. And there is every reason to believe that the GOP will fail this test ...

... the .. campaign paid more than $2.7 million to .. individuals and firms responsible for organizing the .. rally ...

The then-president wanted to replace acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen with a lower-ranking official intent on using the Justice Department’s power to force Georgia to overturn its election results. Trump was only dissuaded when all of the department’s senior leaders threatened to resign. This occurred shortly after Trump himself was recorded demanding that the Georgia secretary of state find the votes needed for him to win that state ...

... incitement of a violent insurrection against another branch of government is the worst wrongdoing that any president — who is sworn to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution” — can commit ...

The GOP appears more eager for retribution against Republicans who upheld their oaths of office than against a president who violated it ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/trump-impeachment-trial-republicans-senate/

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Whole GOP on trial (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2021 OP
This could be an opportunity for them to distance themselves from years of insanity captain queeg Jan 2021 #1

captain queeg

(10,208 posts)
1. This could be an opportunity for them to distance themselves from years of insanity
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 08:05 PM
Jan 2021

And at least provide some cover. But it’s pretty obvious they will just double down yet again.

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