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https://shareblue.com/trump-aides-secretly-panic-as-impeachment-talk-increases-among-republicans/snip . . .
And they dont understand why Trump is fueling resentment against his own party by tacitly supporting Steve Bannons self-described war on sitting Republican members of Congress.
The rising sense of panic comes as the Trump White House still searches for its first major legislative victory. Republicans control the White House, the Senate and the House, yet theyve been completely impotent in terms of passing any kind of agenda. (Trump instead has been reduced to signing vindictive executive orders.)
If we lose the House, he could get impeached. Do you think he understands that? one top GOP donor recalled an exasperated, anonymous Republican senator complaining.
Another GOP congressional aide predicted the Democrats would make Trumps life a living hell. CNN reports that top White House officials have openly discussed the threat of impeachment among themselves, but dont dare to bring it up with Trump.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)At this point, you'd think even they would be relieved if the whole gig was up. Does anyone at the White House seem happy, and do they really think they're serving the people of this country?
aikoaiko
(34,170 posts)Nuremberg Trials II.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)that, by the time our long Trumpian nightmare ends, Republicans will WISH that Hillary Clinton would have gotten elected President because at least then they'd be getting to torture and harass her secure in their knowledge that she wouldn't potentially instigate WW3 and it would be viewed as the "usual" partisan food-fighting. As things stand now, Trump is torturing and scaring everybody in this country and even "traditional" or "establishment" Republicans are being targeted along with Democrats, poor people, minorities, LGBTQ persons, immigrants, et. al. Even if the "establishment" Republicans decide they've had enough and ultimately manage to dump Trump, his base would ravage them at the polls and installing Pence probably won't matter much because Trump being removed from office would still stain him (and he may be tangled up in the Russian mess himself, as well as several Republicans).
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Cheeto is just trying to save his ass. I think someone finally told him that his war against establishment republicans will backfire and hasten his ouster if Dems take control of the House in 2018. He is too stupid to have any grasp of how government works, so someone had to spell it out for him.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)to declare that "impeachment is off the table".
Why? I don't know. It's just a pattern with Dem pols to cave at every opportunity.