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Nevilledog

(55,137 posts)
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 03:12 PM Feb 2021

Hawley is fundraising off Trump's Senate impeachment trial



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Jim Roberts
@nycjim
Sen. Josh Hawley, whose raised fist is among the lasting symbols of the Capitol riot, is fundraising off of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/08/joe-biden-trump-impeachment-live-updates/#link-QOXGPK3HLVATDLDTAROV3TOAJI
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Sen. Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican who raised a fist in support of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, sent an email to supporters Monday in which he sought to fundraise off Trump’s coming Senate impeachment trial.

“Even chasing President Trump out of office isn’t enough for them,” Hawley said of Democrats in the email. “They have to impeach him AGAIN. They are going after Trump, and they are still coming after me — both of us for the same sin: instead of protecting the elites, I stood up for the people and now I am being threatened every day by Democrats calling for me to be expelled from the Senate, and Joe Biden has echoed that I should be ‘flat beaten.’”

Hawley has mentioned Biden’s “flat beaten” remark, out of context, in a number of fundraising emails. In remarks to reporters in Delaware two days after the attack on the Capitol, Biden rebuffed calls from some Democrats to remove Hawley and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) from office over their efforts to overturn the election, saying that, instead, “I think they should be just flat beaten the next time they run.”

In the fundraising email, Hawley also defended his objections to Biden’s victory in several states.
“I stood up and objected, and now I am paying the price,” the senator said. “Antifa has targeted my home, my name has been dragged through the mud, and the D.C. Bar Association is entertaining calls for me to be disbarred from the practice of law. My crime: refusing to do as I am told and allow the 2020 election to be certified with no question. They are FURIOUS with me for standing up, but I won’t back down and I hope you won’t either.”

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Hawley is fundraising off Trump's Senate impeachment trial (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2021 OP
Oh, fuck him. This is Victimization 101 lol... Volaris Feb 2021 #1

Volaris

(11,796 posts)
1. Oh, fuck him. This is Victimization 101 lol...
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 03:49 PM
Feb 2021

'I supported a violent overthrow of a legitimately elected government, and now the opponents of anti-democratic fascism want to CANCEL ME! wont you please PLEASE send me 50 bucks so that I can continue to support FASCISM?!?

It's all so unfair.
Please. Wont you think of the fascists?


No Josh. I dont think I will. Kindly fuck off.
Yours Truly,

A Missouri Democracy-Lover.

(On Edit): Josh.
EVERYTHING trump touches, dies, you idiot. You KNEW this.
And still, you let trump touch you there? You DID, didnt you, Josh?

Yes, I know it sounds like victim-blaming. But heres the thing (per your own worst elements)...

Josh, you cannot rape THE WILLING.
Kindly fuck off.

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