FINAL WORD
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and a wastebasket. Sure, the polls show that Republican support for Trump is at 95%. But that’s among voters. It’s Congress running the impeachment show, and there is a real effort underway to get some GOP members to defect against Trump. Is that really something the president should worry about? Up to this point, the conventional wisdom inside the Beltway has been that Trump could very well be impeached, but it would be an entirely party-line partisan vote in the House of Representatives. The Senate – where Republicans hold a narrow majority – is even safe ground for Trump, as a two- thirds majority would be needed to remove the president from office after a House vote to impeach. It has been considered largely unthinkable that any GOP senators would make common cause with the Democrats to remove a sitting Republican president. However, there’s a pressure campaign underway right now to change that. Many of the biggest newspapers and cable news channels are breathlessly reporting on the willingness of unnamed Republicans to turn on Trump. It all depends on what Congress learns about “Ukrainegate,” we’re told. With each passing day, there are more “revelations” of selectively leaked information from the impeachment inquiry that U.S. Representative Adam Schiff is leading. Supposedly damning information about the alleged “quid pro quo” of Trump’s Ukraine policy is being released in pieces to cause maximum damage to the president.
It wouldn’t take many anti- Trump Republicans to do real damage to the president’s reelection prospects... And there are plenty of them.
The optics, as they say inside the Beltway, are not good. So could the Republican party turn on President Trump in an election year because of the Ukraine investigation debacle? Almost certainly not, unless a true bombshell drops that would actually merit impeachment and removal from office. Despite what the media is saying, we are a world away from that right now. But it wouldn’t take many anti-Trump Republicans to do real damage to the president’s reelection prospects... And there are plenty of them. They may not go on record as supporting Democrats during the impeachment vote – or maybe they will. Either way, some Republicans who miss the old order of things will be working against Trump out in public and behind the scenes. Just ask Romney. Fifth columnist “Never Trumpers” will have plenty of opportunities to take their revenge against Trump between now, Trump’s looming impeachment, and Election Day. There’s plenty of reason to believe they will. Perhaps Pierre Delecto will have the last laugh after all...
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