Republicans dumbfounded by Trump's calls for harsh retribution against Democratic lawmakers

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Trump’s heated rhetorical attacks on Democratic lawmakers, whom he called out as “traitors” who deserve to be jailed, have left his Republican allies in Washington dumbfounded and skeptical about any bipartisan dealmaking at the end of 2025.

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that Trump labeling his political opponents as traitors was “reckless” and “irresponsible.”

“If you take it at face value, the idea that calling your opponents ‘traitors’ — and then specifically saying that it warrants the death penalty — is reckless, inappropriate, irresponsible,” Paul told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) furrowed her brow incredulously when a reporter last week described to her Trump’s comments on Truth Social, in which he accused Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and a group of House Democrats of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republicans-dumbfounded-trump-calls-harsh-110000063.html

Most of them will fall in line.

[efhmc]

1. "Furrowed her brow". Wow that is really a harsh statement from S. C.

[kairos12]

12. Somewhere on the

pearl clutching scale me thinks.

[Renew Deal]

2. How furrowed was Collins brow?

I'm trying to understand how severe her concern was.

[newdeal2]

8. It was a 5 out of 10 furrow

She’s concerned but needs more information to get to a 7 or 8. Thune will probably talk her down to a level 3 furrow.

[Renew Deal]

11. Sounds about right

[yellowcanine]

9. It was 2 concerns short of a scaramucci.

[Renew Deal]

10. lol

[thucythucy]

3. I wish someone would ask Senator Collins

whether she thinks Trump "has learned his lesson." She said this after voting against his removal from office. Trump, she said, has "learned his lesson" about obeying the law, not browbeating foreign governments into manufacturing dirt on his opponents, not inciting a mob to murder his own vice president and the Speaker of the House, and so on and so forth...

Please, Senator Collins, tell us which lessons Trump has learned, lessons that justified you voting him not guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors?

[Midnight Writer]

6. He did learn his lesson. He learned he can do anything he pleases and not be held accountable,

thanks to Republicans who would rather defend a life-long criminal than lose an election.

[thucythucy]

7. Exactly.

What other lesson could he have learmed, given his obvious guilt and how the GOP, Collins among them, let him skate to commit other crimes?

[UpInArms]

4. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) furrowed her brow incredulously

Is that how she shows her “concern” these days?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. WOULD-BE DICTATOR if he can get away with it

so I take his statements to be signalling, tangible descriptions of intent

[lastlib]

13. You could've left off the last two syllables of "dumbfounded",,,

...and everything after it. And it would've sent the right message.