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riversedge

(69,707 posts)
Wed Jul 18, 2018, 08:16 PM Jul 2018

Longtime Ohio GOP official resigns over Trump's news conference with Putin

Source: CNN






Updated 6:18 PM ET, Wed July 18, 2018


(CNN)A longtime Ohio GOP official abruptly resigned Monday over President Donald Trump's comments during a news conference in Helsinki at a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying "something snapped" during the conference.
"There just cannot be any confusion when the President, who has a sworn duty to protect and defend the United States, is there on foreign soil, 3 feet from Vladimir Putin, and he is openly taking the position of the Russian President over our intel community, and it was a point at which ... something snapped," Chris Gagin, formerly the chair of the Belmont County, Ohio, GOP, told CNN's Brooke Baldwin on "Newsroom."

Belmont County is in the heart of Ohio's coal industry and is considered emblematic of Trump's political base.

"I thought that my only recourse, my duty as my conscience told me, was that I needed to simply resign because I could not in effect be the front man for the President here in Belmont County," Gagin said Wednesday..............................................................

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/politics/chris-gagin-republican-ohio-resign-trump-putin-cnntv/index.html



He is still a republican.
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Longtime Ohio GOP official resigns over Trump's news conference with Putin (Original Post) riversedge Jul 2018 OP
Resignation is a good first step. Maybe then he'll become a "decline to state" member. CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2018 #1
So he didn't snap when Mr.Bill Jul 2018 #2
Nope, that was a-okay. I'll never understand how these people suddenly get a conscience. rainin Jul 2018 #3

Mr.Bill

(24,103 posts)
2. So he didn't snap when
Wed Jul 18, 2018, 08:46 PM
Jul 2018

he saw children taken from their mothers screaming and being thrown in cages?

I snapped the day that steaming pile of pigshit came down that escalator to a room full of paid actors to cheer for him.

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