Susan Collins's Really Dumb Trump Defense Reveals the GOP's Sickness

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Susan Collins’s Really Dumb Trump Defense Reveals the GOP’s Sickness - The New Republic

The only thing that was more fun yesterday than watching the Trump verdict come in was watching Republicans and assorted right-wingers sputter in outrage. I flipped on Fox News not long after the verdict was announced and caught Jeanine Pirro in the middle of an unhinged rant. “We have gone over a cliff in America,” she howled, concluding: “And in the end, with all this smoke and mirrors, at 34 counts, and a hooker, and a guy [who] according to a federal judge is a serial perjurer, we have convicted a former president of the United States of America.”

In a way, she got that last part right, even if her description of Stormy Daniels is unfair. But yes, Jeanine: That’s how the legal system works. If a jury returns 34 guilty counts in less than 10 hours of deliberation, it’s pretty clear that the prosecutor made his case. The jury of Donald Trump’s peers found Daniels and Michael Cohen to be credible witnesses. That must really frost the MAGA elites on Fox. Trump lawyer Todd Blanche tried and tried to discredit them, especially Cohen. Obviously, the jury wasn’t buying what he was selling.

But the dumbest of them all was Susan Collins’s statement, especially this part: “The district attorney, who campaigned on a promise to prosecute Donald Trump, brought these charges precisely because of who the defendant was rather than because of any specified criminal conduct.”

She got pounded on X/Twitter all night. It’s pretty hard to say that criminal charges are corrupt and illegitimate after a jury handed down an unequivocal thunderclap of a verdict like that. We should pause for a moment and think about the contempt for the justice system inherent in Collins’s words.

Have to hold it to four paragraphs. But read the rest of this op-ed by Michael Tomasky because he was SPOT ON in describing the lunacy erupting from MAGA CAMP over the pos' GUILTY verdict.

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https://news.yahoo.com/news/susan-collins-really-dumb-trump-135722098.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

[Jim__]

1. We haven't gone over a cliff Jeanine, it's just the wine making you dizzy.

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

7. The lemmings have gone over a cliff

Although I love your angle, and I loved that SNL skit.

[Irish_Dem]

2. They have no self respect whatsoever.

They lie with impunity and humiliate themselves.

[pandr32]

3. The Republican Party is now...

Owned and managed by Trump.org.

[Johonny]

4. She let out the secret that rich white people get away

With a lot of crimes and expect that to continue. It's almost like white privilege is real and they know it's real.

[BigDemVoter]

5. God, I fucking HATE Susan Collins. . . .

She has that mewling voice coupled with her lies and fake concern. She is absolutely disgusting in every sense.

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

8. She is very concerned about Trump being Guilty nt

[spanone]

6. The rot is so deep in the republican party. She is a prime example.