48 GOP senators disturbingly silent on Trump’s threats to fire Mueller shareblue.com/republican-sen…
ICYMI I had a great discussion with @RickSmithShow about the Republican party’s deafening silence on the prospect of Trump firing Mueller, and how they ALL look more guilty and complicit over time:
I think it’s worth noting that in their deafening silence, the establishment @GOP is neither declaring an intention to support Mueller’s firing nor an intention to protect him from being fired. In other words, they’re intentionally being ambiguous.
Also it isn’t as if the @GOP’s been shy about following Trump off the cliff when it comes to *everything but* Mueller’s investigation. They haven’t hesitated to attempt political suicide except as it relates to the Russia probe. That alone should tell you all you need to know.
Thus far, the establishment @GOP has successfully been able to prevent Donald Trump from doing two things: 1) firing Jeff Sessions and 2) firing Robert Mueller. It’s their silence aka lack of permission that keeps him temporarily at bay.
Obviously Jeff Sessions gets to stay because he’s busy making Jim Crow great again and literally perjured himself to conceal Trump’s collusion/treason, but the GOP’s tacit protection of Mueller is ultimately about throwing Trump to the wolves in hopes of salvaging the party.
Donald Trump is officially damaged goods and no one understands this better than today’s GOP. Every major race he’s attached his disgraceful name to has been lost, and their prospects for November 2018 and 2020 only become more abysmal with each day that he’s unlawfully POTUS*.
Truth be told, most of the establishment @GOP was backing every other candidate besides Trump in the primary and only jumped on his bandwagon at the last minute because they had no other choice and wanted to win at any cost. There’s NO LOYALTY or HONOR amongst thieves.
Today’s @GOP will NEVER openly admit they sold America out to Kremlin and signed a deal with the orange devil for personal gain, but they will most certainly sit in silence while Mueller pieces together the puzzle that ultimately frees them from their unholy alliance with Trump.
The establishment @GOP doesn’t have the courage or conviction to stand on its feet and hold Trump accountable for the numerous impeachable offenses he’s committed thus far, they’re just sending secret thoughts and prayers in Mueller’s direction every night.
The establishment @GOP is willing to throw Trump, Pence and everyone else who was ignorant and/or sleazy enough to sign onto this criminal enterprise under Mueller’s bus if it means the party apparatus never has to take full responsibility for unleashing this disaster on America.
The @GOP will play the victim and pretend they had absolutely no fucking clue that they were nominating a treasonous sociopath to lead and represent them. Their voters will gladly accept yet another invitation to blame the mess they created on someone else.
The @GOP isn’t giving Trump permission to fire Mueller because they need Mueller to fire Trump. They’re exercising their right to remain silent until Trump is proven guilty in a court of law.
The @GOP is diligently preparing themselves to be like 🤷♂️ and shocked/awed that there’s gambling going on in this casino when Trump is finally indicted for obstruction of justice and colluding w/Russia. They’re desperate for as much plausible deniability as they can get.
Don’t just take my word for it, ask Mitch McConnell:
While you’re at it, check with @SpeakerRyan. He’s never wanted anyone to have a job this badly before.
And look at Lindsey Graham clutching his pearls and using the “I” word all of a sudden...
No one in the establishment @GOP wants to be forced to hold Donald Trump accountable for his misdeeds. They’re hoping Mueller will take out their trash and clean up their mess, and they’re providing him just enough implicit cover to do it.
Even the King of GOP overreach knows the party can’t afford to aid and abet Trump’s obstruction of Mueller’s investigation
The Republican Party apparatus is desperately hoping it can survive the Russia probe without being swept up in the whirlwind, it serves them no purpose to undercut the *lifelong Republican* they basically handpicked to be special counsel.
Bottom line is Donald Trump is disastrous dead weight that the establishment @GOP can’t wait to kick to the curb. They just don’t have the guts or glory to do it without a permission slip from Robert Mueller.
Whether they’re “forced” to impeach him because he takes unprecedented steps to fire Mueller, or because Mueller’s completed investigation reveals unprecedented crimes against America, the @GOP is resigned to silence and inaction because it can’t kill its own Frankenstein.
If it could, Trump would never have been granted the @GOP nomination in the first place. They’re waiting to be delivered from not just Trump but their delusional constituents who refuse to believe fat meat is greasy and that their alleged savior is a Russian attack on America.
They’re also waiting to lose all their damn seats in Congress, because if/when they don’t hold Trump accountable for his misdeeds even in light of Mueller’s conclusions, the American people’s only recourse will be voting them ALL the FUCK OUT.
This is truly a lose-lose situation for the @GOP and they deserve every last ounce of it.
“Economic anxiety.”
Seriously though, how else can the @GOP jump off of the Trump Train if not by way of Mueller’s investigation? If the Russia probe isn’t fruitful, they remain wedded to the lamest of lame ducks for 2020.
The GOP is implicitly offering up its Congressional majority and the sham Trump presidency* for sacrifice in 2018. They may lose their seats, but at least they won’t have to be the ones to pull the plug on THEIR fake POTUS. Cowards to the bitter end.
The @GOP doesn’t have the balls to look the American people in the face and take responsibility for playing Russian Roulette with our democracy. They will gladly sit back quietly and wait for us to take the responsibility to hold the Trump cabal accountable away from them.
If you don’t believe me, please recall 2006 and how they just waived the white flag on GWB and left the Democrats to clean up their war criminal’s mess. They only spent 4 years in the Congressional wilderness, and they will HAPPILY do it again if it means a divorce from Trump.
I’m not trying to help them out, but it really is better for the long term health of the @GOP if they cut bait now and let Mueller take Trump down so they can regroup and get their shit together (if that’s even humanly possible) for 2020. They don’t have a viable candidate in DT.
The other thing about this is a lot of these Republicans are very likely being blackmailed by Russia (Trump by extension) and they actually need the probe to free the whole party from Putin’s grasp. #Karmageddon
The @GOP is fully aware that they owe their current stranglehold of the government to Putin, because gerrymandering/race based voter suppression were only getting them so far prior to 2016 and aren’t holding up in court. They made a deal with the devil and the bill has come due.
Sure, they loved the idea of getting a boost from Russia’s cyberattack at first, but now that their nefarious arrangements are being exposed they just want Mueller (a trusted Republican) to rip off the bandaid so they can calm their corporate donors’ economic anxiety.
Trump is a perpetual liability. It will NOT get easier to be associated with him from here on out, and anyone who’s stupid enough to remain by his side as he faces Mueller is only doing it because they’re too guilty, complicit and enmeshed to get out now. Sink or swim, @GOP.
