Murkowski openly admitted that she and her Republican colleagues were āall afraidā of āretaliationā from Trump, as she criticized his policies.
Murkowski openly admitted that she and her Republican colleagues were āall afraidā of āretaliationā from Trump, as she criticized his policies.
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 donāt think thatās 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 āIām afraid of retaliation so Iām just going to sit by quietly and let the people who elected me take the brunt of the GOP/MAGA administrationās illegal actions.ā
Thatās what we all thought five years agoā¦
Iām also not holding me breath, but we also canāt 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 heās fully trying to be a dictator now and heās well on his way to getting there. Heās unilaterally making decisions that are wrecking the economy, trashing human rights, and heās 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.
The real problem here is that Trump was doing all of this in his first term too. He didnāt face any consequences for it then, so itās hard to take the thought heāll see consequences for it now seriously.
Looking from the outside, Iād 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 weāve seen already that Trump doesnāt care what people say or what rulings are made. Heās going to sit there on his throne and DARE someone to try and throw him off it.
Of course we know itās less about Trump himself and more about what his crazed lunatic mega fans are going to do to you if they know youāre against him.
Remember that the people who have been sent to El Salvador didnāt go there by themselves. ANYONE throughout that process could say āno Iām not doing itā, but that means theyāll be the next one on the plane, shoved on by the nearest trump-loving drone.
And theyāll justify it because theyāre ājust following ordersā