'The Retribution Tour Collides with the Ballroom and the Slush Fund'
(TPM) "It is important to see a few different developments coming together today up on Capitol Hill. As you likely saw there was a mini-revolt today among Senate Republicans over Trump’s slush fund and to a secondary degree over the ballroom. Because they wouldn’t agree to back the slush fund they just left and went on recess. Not exactly a huge profile in courage. But it’s also at least delayed Trump’s new ICE funding bill. The ballroom, the slush fund, the on-going retribution tour – these are all Trump’s big obsessions right now, as I noted this morning. But in something like a meta-ten car pile-up the different self-soothing efforts are bumping into each other. Trump just knee capped Sen. Cassidy in Louisiana (he lost his primary) and Senator Cornyn (endorsed Ken Paxton). Two careers ended. Two Senators who are really embittered. Trump also blindsided other Republican senators when he endorsed Ken Paxton. They had no advance warning. Totally out of the blue. Party discipline is a thing. But you do it wisely. Trump’s made Cassidy, Tillis and perhaps now even Cornyn into chaos agents going into the midterms."
"The point is the retribution tour is colliding with the building spree and the Deserving Fascists Slush Fund. None of them have anything to do with helping the GOP in the midterms. The wheels are coming off."
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