Same As It Ever Was, SAME AS IT EVER WAS…
President Donald Trump is spending his final days in office attacking leadership within his own party, this time the second-highest ranking Republican in the Senate, offering a possible preview of his broader post-presidential strategy to use his influence in the 2022 midterm elections and beyond…
The President returned to Washington ahead of the January 6 event, when as many as 140 House Republicans, joined by at least one senator, Missouri Republican Josh Hawley, could vote to throw out electoral votes in key swing states Trump lost…
The [Fake] President has raised hundreds of millions of dollars since the November 3 election, a majority of which goes directly to a new fundraising leadership PAC, Save America, that is expected to aide him in donating to other candidates and political pursuits as he considers a potential presidential bid in 2024.
…Trump is already planting the idea that he would support candidates offering primary challenges to current House and Senate Republicans he sees as disloyal.
Trump and the scumbags aiding his takeover will have few problems setting-up an opposition Fascist Party to split the existing Republican Party…if he can’t maintain control of the original. No reason other than convenience in his propaganda wars to keep the old party. They’ll come up with some red-white-and-blue theme. God will be on their side.
I imagine serious discussions over armbands have already started.
“President Donald Trump is stoking division in the Republican ranks days before control of the Senate — and the balance of power in Washington — is decided in a pair of runoff elections in Georgia.” https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/02/politics/trump-hawley-electoral-college-georgia/index.html
p/s: no armbands this time https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/what-is-a-maga-hat
8AM MST, tomorrow morning, 3rd
“Trump ‘diehards’ threatening to ‘kill all the D.C. traitors’ on day of the president’s rally: report” https://www.rawstory.com/trump-inciting-violence-2649717814/
See also “Trump Plans to Fight the Election Even After ‘Stop the Steal’ Rally Ends” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-plans-to-fight-the-election-even-after-stop-the-steal-rally-ends?ref=scroll
President Donald Trump shared a video on Saturday encouraging supporters to join protests in Washington D.C. on January 6, which will be attended by members of the far-right Proud Boys group https://www.newsweek.com/trump-shares-clip-promoting-january-6-dc-protests-that-proud-boys-will-attend-incognito-1558543
The 30-second clip, posted by the president to Twitter, touts the upcoming “March for Trump” protests as potentially the “biggest event in Washington D.C. history.”
骑虎难下 (qí hǔ nán xià): when one is riding a tiger it is hard to dismount.
“Denial and conspiracies: how rightwing media reacted to Trump’s mob” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/07/rightwing-media-reaction-trump-mob-capitol
“…For a small minority of commentators, the events elicited self-reflection. On that score, it would be difficult to better Kevin D Williamson’s summary of conservative media’s crooked, craven path through the Trump era in a Thursday article on National Review Online. He writes: “The Trump presidency began in shame and dishonesty. It ends in shame, dishonesty, cowardice and rebellion against the constitution. For the past few weeks, the rightwing media, including the big talk-radio shows, has been coyly calling for a revolution. Of course they never thought they’d actually get one: that kind of talk is good for business – keep the rubes riled up and they won’t change the channel when the commercials come around on the half-hour.”
“The Trump Presidency’s Inevitable, Wretched End” By Kevin D. Williamson https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/the-trump-presidencys-inevitable-wretched-end/
8AM MST, tomorrow morning, 8th
He can’t leave fast enough!
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Every Trump ally is just one false step away from going right under the bus.
He is the only thing that counts in his own world.
“Presidential son Eric Trump issued a threat on Tuesday night to House and Senate Republicans who refuse to join his father’s last-ditch effort to overthrow President-elect Joe Biden’s decisive victory” https://www.thedailybeast.com/eric-trump-threatens-to-primary-republicans-who-wont-help-his-dad-overthrow-election
“Tomorrow’s gonna tell you a lot about the country,” Eric Trump told pro-Trump Fox News host Sean Hannity. “Because I can tell you, Sean, any senator or any congressman that does not—meaning on this side—that does not fight tomorrow, their political career is over. Because the MAGA movement is going nowhere!”
“They will get primaried next time around. And they will lose if they don’t stand up and show some backbone, and show some conviction,” he said.
The president’s kid later took to Twitter to double down on his promise to campaign against Republicans who won’t object to Biden’s election victory.”
“How a pro-Trump mob besieged the Capitol” (timeline) https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/01/politics/us-capitol-siege/
“The Trump Presidency’s Inevitable, Wretched End” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/07/rightwing-media-reaction-trump-mob-capitol
“Utah Sen. Mitt Romney harassed by Trump supporters on flight to Washington” https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2021/1/6/22216478/utah-sen-mitt-romney-trump-supporters-flight-viral-mask-washington With the exception of the leadership, members of Congress are only protected while they are in the Capitol [unless they provide their own security].
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham was escorted by police from a terminal inside Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after a group of Donald Trump’s supporters chanted “traitor” and screamed “you work for us” after he condemned Donald Trump’s response to a violent mob at the US Capitol and baseless allegations of election fraud. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/08/trump-supporters-call-lindsey-graham-traitor-456592
Trump’s Texas endorsement boosts a scandal-plagued incumbent while imperiling a political dynasty https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/565017-trumps-texas-endorsement-boosts-a-scandal-plagued-incumbent-while-imperiling
In the aftermath of Trump’s endorsement, the odds-on favorite to be the Texas Republican Party’s attorney general candidate in November 2022 is: under indictment for three felony counts of state securities fraud; the target of an FBI inquiry into whistleblower claims that he broke the law while attorney general to aid a major donor; the subject of a professional misconduct investigation by the Texas Bar Association for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election; alleged to have had a recent extramarital affair; tied to some questionable land deals in Collin County while representing the county in the Texas House and Senate.
In addition to his visible and vocal support for Trump throughout his presidency, Paxton led the unsuccessful lawsuit to overturn the presidential election results in four key battleground states won by Biden and was a speaker at Trump’s “Save America” rally on Jan. 6, only hours before Trump supporters from that rally stormed the U.S. Capitol. On Monday, Trump rewarded Paxton’s undying loyalty with what is arguably the most coveted endorsement in existence, at least within the Texas GOP.