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Trump Shakes Down All Of Alaska After Murkowski Rejects TrumpcareBy Darrell Lucus on July 27, 2017
Donald Trump is a petty and vindictive man. Thats been established for a long time. But one state may be about to find that out literally. Nope, not sapphire-blue California or purplish Nevadabut crimson-red Alaska. After one of its senators voted against Trumpcare, the White House threatened to yank critical jobs and infrastructure from the Last Frontier.
But the White Houses private reaction may have been even more chilling. Alaskas junior Senator, Dan Sullivan, told the (Anchorage) Alaska Dispatch News that on Wednesday afternoon, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called him with a warningthe people of Alaska were going to pay dearly for Murkowskis refusal to support Trumpcare.
This exchange sounds like something youd expect from a crime familywhich is fitting, since Trumps approach to governing is akin to that of a mob boss. What Zinke effectively did is tell Murkowski and Sullivan that unless Murkowski toed the line and voted for Trumpcare, Alaska was likely to get the equivalent of a horses head in its bed.
http://www.liberalamerica.org/2017/07/27/trump-shakes-down-alaska-murkowski-rejects-trumpcare/
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Trump Shakes Down All Of Alaska After Murkowski Rejects Trumpcare (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Jul 2017
OP
Maybe it's time for some traffic problems on Sarah Palin's Bridge to Nowhere. nt
tblue37
Jul 2017
#1
tblue37
(65,483 posts)1. Maybe it's time for some traffic problems on Sarah Palin's Bridge to Nowhere. nt
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)2. Actually Rachel pointed out
that Trump's threats to Alaska was the same type of thing that people in Bridgegate were convicted for.
tblue37
(65,483 posts)3. I don't get MSNBC, so I don't watch her. (Actually, I only watch "Real Time," "Game of Thrones,"
Last Week Tonight, and The Young Pope. They are all on HBO, which I do get.)
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)4. LOL
Don't give him and ideas LOL