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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 10:34 AM Jun 2019

Fox News' Dobbs: GOPer's Who Are Against Tariffs Are Traitors

https://hillreporter.com/fox-news-dobbs-gopers-who-are-against-tariffs-are-traitors-37865


Its well known that most anchors who work for the Fox News network support President Donald Trump. The most fiercely loyal of those supporters may very well be Lou Dobbs who hosts Lou Dobbs tonight.

There are a number of Republican lawmakers who have expressed weariness about the president’s potential Mexico tariffs. On his show last night, Dobbs went in on these conservatives referring to them as “traitors to their country.”

The host saved much of his vitriol for Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, who said that there is not much Republican support for the tariffs. ““The Republican Party in the Senate appears, to me, to be on the verge of committing absolute suicide,” said Dobbs. “This is, I think, one of the darkest moments that I have seen in our capital for a long time. This is an abject betrayal on the part of Mitch McConnell.”

Dobbs said of the GOP lawmakers, “They’re telling every American who voted for this president, ‘Go to hell!’ This is a crisis of conscience, of soul for the country. And if these, these haggard, tired leaders of the Republican Party on Capitol Hill sell out this president, it’s going to be, it is going to be a terrible day in America.”

Regardless of Republican worries on the matter, Trump seems to be going full speed ahead on the Mexico tariffs.


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ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)
1. I am AGAINST being taxed again for everything I buy, Lou!!!!
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 10:37 AM
Jun 2019

From Produce, Fabrics, household items, etc., with higher prices Trump imposed on me.

You so ignorant, Lou!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. :) Oh, he didn't mean YOU and not even the RW VOTERS who elect
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 10:49 AM
Jun 2019

the politicians he's badmouthing. It's just the politicians' doing.

Typical political chicanery. Just imagine what'd happen if all those who despise Democratic politicians included their voters in their attacks. "Democratic voters are really no different from Republican." Uhuh. Wouldn't work nearly as well.

Zambero

(8,965 posts)
2. Business commentator turned propagandist Lou Dobbs
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 10:40 AM
Jun 2019

He has one thing right. Those who voted for Trump, short of those few who have come to realize the damage that he has inflicted, can indeed be told to go to hell!

 

shockey80

(4,379 posts)
6. Exactly, He is just like Carlson and others. It is an act, it's fake.
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 11:00 AM
Jun 2019

They only care about the money they are making. In my opinion they are traitors.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
8. Thom Hartmann loves tariffs as well
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 12:03 PM
Jun 2019

and thinks Democrats will lose in 2020 if they don't go all-in big on raising tariffs. He thinks Trump is a lock to win otherwise.

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