Van Drew pledges 'undying support' for Trump as he switches parties

[PupCamo]

Source: Politico

Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Thursday formally became a Republican, pledging his "undying support" for Donald Trump as the ex-Democrat sat next to the president in the White House.

“I believe that this is just a better fit for me,” the New Jersey lawmaker said, following a meeting with Trump Thursday afternoon. “This is who I am.”



Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/19/trump-meet-party-switching-van-drew-087976

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"Undying support"?

this goes WAY beyond a freaking cult; Stalin would be jealous of Trump

[TeamPooka]

1. Enjoy your final year in Congress Jeff.

[rickyhall]

4. And enter obscurity.

[exboyfil]

22. Or his villainy

He is stepping into the judgement of history now.

[forgotmylogin]

40. Don't people who marry an old rich person for their money pledge "undying love" as well?

It's not hard to talk hyperbole and forever when there is a clear expiration date.

[TeamPooka]

41. tick, tick, tick.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. "This is who I am"?

If that's who he is, he sure isn't a Democrat. He's fallen in with racists, anti-semites, bullies, child-cagers, pussy-grabbers, con artists and Russian assets, so if that's who he is I guess he's a Republican. You do you, Jeff.

[cstanleytech]

13. No one falls into that rather its more likely he simply was "very" adept at keeping his real

inner self concealed from the eyes of the public until he got what he wanted.
Now that he has what he wants he thinks he will be ok as the seat he won was Republican prior to his winning on the Democratic ticket.

[southerncrone]

34. Was he just a Repuke plant all along?

[cstanleytech]

35. If you mean by higher ups then I doubt it. More likely if he was a Republican all this time he

simply saw no way for him to move up inside the party at that time so rather than try and fight for a spot among his own he took a longer but riskier road into higher office by running as a Democrat and once he secured that he allowed his true colors to fly free.

[southerncrone]

39. That's what I meant. Wolf in sheeps clothing.

[brutus smith]

3. I wonder if he has any ties to Russia

[Auggie]

5. My first thought. Look for a money trail.

[dewsgirl]

8. Yep, they hold his kompromat for him.

[Gregory Peccary]

46. If he didn't before he does now

Quite the bait and switch on his electorate who thought they were voting for a democrat

[dewsgirl]

6. Someone is 100 percent kompromised.

[keithbvadu2]

7. pledges 'undying support'

Oath of Allegiance - Pre and post 1934
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-fuehrer-oath

(before August 2, 1934)
"I swear by almighty God this sacred oath:
I will at all times loyally and honestly
serve my people and country
and, as a brave soldier,
I will be ready at any time
to stake my life for this oath."

The Fuehrer Oath
(effective August 2, 1934)
"I swear by almighty God this sacred oath:
I will render unconditional obedience
to the Fuehrer of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler,
Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht,
and, as a brave soldier,
I will be ready at any time
to stake my life for this oath."

[bucolic_frolic]

10. I think you've nailed the root

[steve2470]

23. good find! nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

28. rec'd for this post as well. nt

[durablend]

9. Good riddance to bad rubbish

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Trump's Bedminster N.J. golf resort has a new ball washer

What a sicko.

[truthisfreedom]

12. COMPROMISED we need the FBI involved here.

This guy needs a complete colonoscopy.

[tanyev]

14. So he's joined the Trump Zombie army?

[bluestarone]

15. Unexplainable UNLESS

You look at the pictures in his room Reagan AND (HIM and TRUMP) How he was elected is beyond me!

[onethatcares]

21. now wait one minute

He has a "room"???? wtf is a grown man that ran for office and got elected then backstabbes his electors, doing in a "room"???

I bet he does fit the puke party so much better.

[AC_Mem]

16. This stinks to high Heaven

Either he has always been R and just said he was D to get the job, or ... something very fishy has happened. Democrats do NOT have the lack of values that Republican politicians have. Did he show GOP colors before? Where have his values aligned during his campaign and while in his office? is it an issue of gerrymandering?

Something is just wrong about this - Democrats and Republicans are SO FAR APART that it is almost impossible for them to be so similar that they could just cross over this easily.

but - having said that - VOTE HIM O.U.T.

[LastDemocratInSC]

17. This reminds me of Luca Brasi pledging his undying support to Don Corleone

[NCjack]

18. Ya, Jeff. "This is just a better fit for" you. Do you really think that the Repukes

never go beyond back rubs for whipping the vote. You must not yet know that Steve Scalise is the Repuke Whip, and his ball-breaking underlings are the most vicious in the memory of the U.S. House.

If you cross Trump, McCarthy, or Scalise, you will sneak away on a 1-way trip to a remote village south of Patagonia, and spend the rest of your life pulling guts out of fish.

[Karma13612]

19. He'll be getting a cabinet position

Or some other plumb assignment within the first couple months of 2020

[LiberalLovinLug]

45. IF Trump wins

But I agree. If the worst happens, this reminds me of some Hollywood tale of the schmuck that seemingly picks the wrong horse, and is ridiculed by that decision, and then a miracle happens and his party wins, and he's made the Minister of Information or something , and one of the most powerful people in the country, who then "gets back" at all those that dared to laugh at him earlier.

Maybe I'm being influenced because I watched Joker last night.

[Karma13612]

47. No, I mean in 2020

In just a few months.

He could leave his position as Rep for a cabinet slot or CoS.
We know Mulvaney is counting down to “You’re fired”

[Traildogbob]

20. This......

And Meadows is resigning from Congress to join tRump Admin. He will ultimately have a complete on knees regime goose stepping to destroy this country. The cancer has metastasized throughout all the lymph nodes of GOP politics. Time to kill (not literally for PC sake) the disease within or just ask how much time we got doc. The 100 million not voting last election could be the chemo/radiation our country needs to eradicate this disease. Then destroy the carcenigen that is the root cause of our sickness, Putin financed Murdock.

[crickets]

24. Is he really finished swapping back and forth yet? My whiplash is starting to act up... n

[budkin]

25. How the hell could you switch your entire political and life philosophy overnight?

It's not like he voted with Trump before... now all of a sudden he's going to be anti-abortion, anti-worker, pro-corporation just like that? I don't get it, but good riddance.

[Maeve]

26. There are people who try to get rich by buying into the stock market when it's high

Thinking it's kept going up so far, it will keep doing so. Van Drew seems to be the political aspect of that sort. He is in for a long slide down.

[kacekwl]

27. Remember Jeff,

everything trump touches dies.

[zobert]

29. And now he will be among the chosen ones when the rapture comes.

[SunSeeker]

30. Scumbag fraudster.

He should never have run as a Dem.

[Vinca]

31. Who's a good dog? Sit Jeff, sit. Now beg. Good boy.

[Vogon_Glory]

32. Dollars to donuts says he'll get primaried in his new party

Before the next election because he wasn’t loopy enough to fit in with today’s Republican Party.

[TheFourthMind]

33. Wonder how much he was paid for that undying support.

I'm a piece of shit so I believe that being a republican is just a better fit for me, the New Jersey lawmaker said, following a meeting with Trump Thursday afternoon. This is what I am.

[PufPuf23]

36. What an idiot is Van Drew. nt

[greenjar_01]

37. Quisling dipshit

[Nitram]

38. Just reserved a place for himself in hell.

[Norbert]

42. So Judas Iscariot is a trumpublican now

[scarytomcat]

43. bye bye fool

laughing
was never really a dem

[BlueIdaho]

44. Fucking Idiot.

Republicans will primary that turncoat in the blink of an eye and Fatso won’t lift a finger to save him.