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I vote yes.


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Trump’s call for a government shutdown showed support for the far-right Republicans’ rebellion against McCarthy. The anti-McCarthy bloc, led by Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, demanded sweeping spending cuts and hard-line immigration policy that McCarthy knew would never make it through the Democratically controlled Senate. Even though Gaetz’s crew likely knew that its extremist proposals were futile, Trump’s public advocacy for a shutdown as a political goal unto itself made its members look like authentic MAGA champions sticking up for the base.As Gaetz led an effort to oust McCarthy from the speakership, Trump could have intervened on his behalf and given McCarthy something for his years of meek devotion. He chose not to. Instead, he deliberately sat on the sidelines and took an outwardly neutral position. Hours before the vote that ousted McCarthy, Trump asked on Truth Social, “Why is it that Republicans are always fighting among themselves, why aren’t they fighting the Radical Left Democrats who are destroying our country?” Trump’s anodyne take about GOP infighting demonstrated that he wasn’t looking to help a friend out but that he was a fair-weather friend.\

--------------------In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the US Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did.“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump said, according to lawmakers who were briefed on the call afterward by McCarthy.McCarthy insisted that the rioters were Trump’s supporters and begged Trump to call them off.Trump’s comment set off what Republican lawmakers familiar with the call described as a shouting match between the two men. A furious McCarthy told the then-President the rioters were breaking into his office through the windows, and asked Trump, “Who the f–k do you think you are talking to?” according to a Republican lawmaker familiar with the call.

The newly revealed details of the call, described to CNN by multiple Republicans briefed on it, provide critical insight into the President’s state of mind as rioters were overrunning the Capitol. The existence of the call and some of its details were first reported by Punchbowl News and discussed publicly by McCarthy.The Republican members of Congress said the exchange showed Trump had no intention of calling off the rioters even as lawmakers were pleading with him to intervene. Several said it amounted to a dereliction of his presidential duty.
 
 

////////////////////-“He is not a blameless observer. He was rooting for them,” a Republican member of Congress said. “On January 13, Kevin McCarthy said on the floor of the House that the President bears responsibility and he does.”Speaking to the President from inside the besieged Capitol, McCarthy pressed Trump to call off his supporters and engaged in a heated disagreement about who comprised the crowd. Trump’s comment about the would-be insurrectionists caring more about the election results than McCarthy did was first mentioned by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican from Washington state, in a town hall earlier this week, and was confirmed to CNN by Herrera Beutler and other Republicans briefed on the conversation.“

You have to look at what he did during the insurrection to confirm where his mind was at,” Herrera Beutler, one of 10 House Republicans who voted last month to impeach Trump, told CNN. “That line right there demonstrates to me that either he didn’t care, which is impeachable, because you cannot allow an attack on your soil, or he wanted it to happen and was OK with it, which makes me so angry.”“We should never stand for that, for any reason, under any party flag,” she added, voicing her extreme frustration. “I’m trying really hard not to say the F-word.”Herrera Beutler went a step further Friday night, calling on others to speak up about any other details they might know regarding conversations Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence had on January 6.////////////////////////////////////
 
 

trump enabled mccarthy to get the speakership and mccarthy refused to testify but did not back mccarthy when he got voted out.

he should testify now.

those who do not want mccarthy to testify are afraid of what he would say.

this is because the truth does not matter to them.

only trump matters to them.

you are all ****.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/former- ... =129420778

Former special counsel Jack Smith, testifying Thursday before the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee, was unequivocal about who caused the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol."Our investigation revealed that Donald Trump is the person who caused Jan. 6, that it was foreseeable to him and that he sought to exploit the violence," Smith testified. "We followed the facts and we followed the law -- where that led us was to an indictment of an unprecedented criminal scheme to block the peaceful transfer of power."Smith, who led investigations into Trump's alleged interference in the 2020 election and alleged mishandling of classified documents, testified publicly for first time about his probes.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ONE BIG SLOB WHO SHOULD NOT BE RUNNING THIS COUNTRY.