5d ago

‘We Are All Afraid’: Republican Senator Admits Colleagues Are Terrified of Being Punished for Criticizing Trump

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Murkowski openly admitted that she and her Republican colleagues were “all afraid” of “retaliation” from Trump, as she criticized his policies.

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5d ago

‘We Are All Afraid’: Republican Senator Admits Colleagues Are Terrified of Being Punished for Criticizing Trump

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5d ago

‘We are all afraid’: Republican senator admits colleagues are terrified of being punished for criticizing Trump

www.mediaite.com /tv/we-are-all-afraid-republican-senator-admits-colleagues-are-terrified-of-being-punished-for-criticizing-trump/

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For those of you at home, Democrats would need to have just four Republicans join them to vote for impeachment.
In the Senate you would need 19 Republicans to join the Democrats/Independents to remove Trump from office. Honestly I don't think that's out of the realm of possibilities considering there is a literal trial and witnesses can be called to testify about all of the illegal things Trump is doing.
EDIT: BTW this lady is a flipping Senator. Your job is to be a voice for your constituents. Not saying "I'm afraid of retaliation so I'm just going to sit by quietly and let the people who elected me take the brunt of the GOP/MAGA administration's illegal actions."
- That’s what we all thought five years ago…
  
  I'm also not holding me breath, but we also can't pretend that Trump 2.0 is not objectively much worse than Trump 1.0. He did some sketchy, asinine and hateful shit in his first term, but he's fully trying to be a dictator now and he's well on his way to getting there. He's unilaterally making decisions that are wrecking the economy, trashing human rights, and he's blatantly breaking the law and ignoring the courts to do it. And people are pissed, even republican voters. If ever there was a time for them to step up, now is that time.
  
  He's unilaterally making decisions that are wrecking the economy, trashing human rights, and he's blatantly breaking the law and ignoring the courts to do it.
  The real problem here is that Trump was doing all of this in his first term too. He didn't face any consequences for it then, so it's hard to take the thought he'll see consequences for it now seriously.
- Looking from the outside, I'd expect to see or read leaks of Senate and House of Representatives stormed by some obscure security agency on the basis of preventing a coup.
- And we've seen already that Trump doesn't care what people say or what rulings are made. He's going to sit there on his throne and DARE someone to try and throw him off it.
  Of course we know it's less about Trump himself and more about what his crazed lunatic mega fans are going to do to you if they know you're against him.
  Remember that the people who have been sent to El Salvador didn't go there by themselves. ANYONE throughout that process could say "no I'm not doing it", but that means they'll be the next one on the plane, shoved on by the nearest trump-loving drone.
  And they'll justify it because they're "just following orders"

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