voicing discomfort...
How about actually demanding/executing the requirement that Mafia Don Mangolini get actual fucking Congressional approval to accept/keep this "gift" (read: blatant bribe)...
You, Congress, could stop this. 🤷♂️ 🤦♀️ 🤡 🖕
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They know that Trump is handing Democrats a silver bullet. Taking gifts from foreign governments is literally the textbook example, set by the founders, of what you can impeach a President for.
And the issue is simple, easy to understand, and likewise hard to defend.
I'm not saying they're worried about him being removed, but they're the ones who are going to have to go on CNN and defend this crap for three or four weeks of news cycles.
You hear that?
WE GOT EM, BOYS! CONFETTI AND KAZOOS FOR EVERYBODY!
Oh wait, literally nothing will happen, there'll be no consequences. MAYBE he won't take the plane, then they'll never talk about it again.
They'll just go back to the good old flood the zone tactic, to make the public forget what happened and that'll be it. Even if Dems launch an impeachment procedure, it'll take long enough for people to have moved onto other outrageous shit. It worked in 2016, it'll work now.
I wonder how long they will have their balls before they lose them again.
Until prime time tonight when Fox News goes after them for being "disloyal"
Dogs that start barking until their owner turns around and gives them a stern look.
Word is that Qatar is sympathetic to Palestine and this makes Israel and all their bought politicians unhappy. It's also just plain old corruption, but why would the GOP care about that all of the sudden?