I get the sense that the White House has absolutely no clue the extent to which the mob riot at the Capitol has shaken the city and the country to the core. No clue. Useless. Clueless.
Lawmakers are absolutely shaken. Members of press corps going through various degrees of ptsd
USCP in massive crisis. Sergeant at arms in both chambers gone. People dead.
All after trump encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol and declared weakness wouldn’t win. All Bc he was angry he lost the election and lied about congress’s ability to change that.
They aren’t even lowering the flag for an officer who was killed defending out Capitol. What a disaster.
It’s never the White House’s fault. Never. It’s always someone else. A system that’s unfair. Big tech is biased. Media is bad. People are disloyal. Republicans on the hill weak. What a joke. Take some responsibility. Own up to your actions. Honor the fallen.
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Republicans’ money spigot is getting cut off. Corporation and trade associations want nothing at all to do with Republicans at the moment, and in the House, much of the money is hard money, so it’s disclosed
@GOPLeader The larger question is do corporations and trade assoc. cut off the super PACs and @NRCC
(We made a mistake — @RepTomEmmer did not vote for the articles. will correct in our Midday edition)
@GOPLeader@SpeakerPelosi@realDonaldTrump What does the Senate do? I actually think there are Rs who will vote for this. and there are Rs who want to make sure that Trump can never run again
More from ☀️Punchbowl AM: Dems inching toward impeachment
House Ds will hold a noon call to discuss whether they can get rid of Trump. @SpeakerPelosi called on Cabinet to force him out of office through the 25th amendment. She said she will move to impeach him if they dont
@SpeakerPelosi Pelosi’s play here is to make it clear to Trump that his time is up -- even before Jan. 20. The 25th amendment is a long shot, so Democrats are hoping that he steps down. If not, the House will impeach him.
@SpeakerPelosi Make no mistake: this is not an idle threat. Pelosi is angry, and her caucus is furious. Her leadership team recognizes that and told us after a call Thursday that her anger was palpable.
Punchbowl behind the scenes: @realDonaldTrump and @GOPLeader got into a screaming match Wed as an enraged mob of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol, according to a source familiar with the episode.
@realDonaldTrump@GOPLeader McCarthy, one of the president's closest allies in Congress, demanded that Trump release a statement denouncing the mob. Initially, Trump would not agree to do it.
Shows the split btwn GOP leaders and Trump
@realDonaldTrump@GOPLeader House Rs are stuck in a trap. The majority of members areloyal to Trump, which leads the ldrshp to stick by the president. But it’s a Catch-22: Many people in the conference say that the only reason the majority is loyal is because @GOPLeader/@SteveScalise refuse to split w him
With an attack on the U.S. Capitol. With a woman shot dead by a police officer and three others losing their lives in “medical emergencies.”
With America’s capital city locked down in a curfew. With heavily armed FBI agents escorting lawmakers to their chamber. With President Donald Trump’s allies abandoning him. @LindseyGrahamSC said, “Enough is enough.
@LindseyGrahamSC This is the nightmarish twilight of Donald Trump’s presidency. It’s ugly. It’s dangerous. And it has left even his closest allies shocked by his behavior and wondering whether there’s any future for Trump in American public life.
Punchbowl PM: Hello, from the U.S. Capitol. At the moment of this writing, we are safe. But make no mistake: we are under siege here, and so is America.
A mob -- not protestors but an angry mob -- breached the United States Capitol after President Donald Trump urged them to march from the White House down Pennsylvania Avenue as Congress was beginning the process of certifying Joe Biden’s victory.
They pushed onto the guarded complex, breached barricades, pushed past police and later smashed windows to gain entrance to the heavily fortified Capitol.