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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Jan 4, 2021, 10:17 PM Jan 2021

Trump sabotaging GOP on his way out of office with push to overturn election [View all]

President Trump is effectively sabotaging the Republican Party on his way out of office, obsessed with overturning his election loss and nursing pangs of betrayal from allies whom he had expected to bend the instruments of democracy to his will.

Trump has created a divide in his party as fundamental and impassioned as any during his four years as president, with lawmakers forced to choose between certifying the results of an election decided by their constituents or appeasing the president in an all-but-certain-to-fail crusade to keep him in power by subverting the vote.

As Republican lawmakers took sides ahead of Wednesday’s joint session of Congress to certify the electoral college results, some on Monday voiced rare criticism of Trump for his attempt to pressure Georgia elections officials to change vote totals there during a Saturday phone call, a recording of which was published by The Washington Post.

Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the No. 3 House Republican, said the call was “deeply troubling” and urged all Americans to listen to the hour-long conversation, while Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.) condemned it as “a new low in this whole futile and sorry episode.” Even one of Trump’s most loyal defenders, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), said it was “not a helpful call.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-sabotaging-gop-on-his-way-out-of-office-with-push-to-overturn-election/ar-BB1ctlmK?li=BBnb7Kz

Trump's behavior is quite predictable. I think he'll sabotage more than the GOP. Wonder if he's passed any state secrets off to Putin?

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