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8. First of all, the Republican Congress backed away...

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Thu Jan 5, 2017, 07:43 AM

Jan 2017

...okay, RETREATED back from "eviscerating" the Office of Congressional Ethics NOT BECAUSE OF TRUMP, but because there was a vast, national outpouring of displeasure all across America. Yes, Trump did throw in his two-cent tweet here-or-there, but NO, the resounding reason the Republicans had so slink back to their cowardly corners is because of US, the voters, NOT TRUMP.

"Don't be a hater." God, that's rich.

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