Bernstein names 21 Republican senators who privately hated Trump

The veteran Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein has publicly named 21 Republican senators he says have “repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for [Donald] Trump and his fitness” for office.

As Trump continued to try to subvert the results of a presidential election he clearly lost to Joe Biden, Bernstein said on Twitter he was “not violating any pledge of journalistic confidentially [sic]”.

His information, he said, came from “colleagues, staff members, lobbyists [and] White House aides”.

They were: Rob Portman (Ohio), Lamar Alexander (Tennessee), Ben Sasse (Nebraska), Roy Blunt (Missouri), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), John Cornyn (Texas), John Thune (South Dakota), Mitt Romney (Utah), Mike Braun and Todd Young (Indiana), Tim Scott (South Carolina), Rick Scott and Marco Rubio (Florida), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Richard Burr (North Carolina), Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania), Martha McSally (Arizona), Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts (Kansas) and Richard Shelby (Alabama).

The list contained senior Republican figures such as Thune, the majority whip; Rubio, acting chair of the intelligence committee; and Grassley, a former judiciary committee chair.

Some on Bernstein’s list, Sasse, Cornyn, Collins and Murkowski among them, have criticized Trump publicly. Romney, Rubio, Murkowski, Toomey and Collins have recognized Biden as president-elect.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ublican-senators-expressed-contempt-for-trump
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Where have they been for the last 4 years?

They were in hiding when Trump flouted all the limits of decency and attacked the institutions of this country head on.

And this list is much longer than the 21 cited.

With the exception of those who have publicly disowned Trump since 2017, we can say that the others are a nice bunch of brown noses.

Until Trump's personality cult is dismantled - an operation that will take another 2-3 years - the GOP will remain partly under his influence.

Which is fine with me since the vast majority of voters are disgusted with the orange clown.

It would greatly facilitate Biden's re-election.

Thoughts?

 

McSally? That's surprising.

 

He really has possessed you guys, critical thinking has gone awry. Look, he's ONE HUMAN BEING. He doesn't have control of the GOP, or even GOP voters. In 2024, the dude will be what, 82?

I think the worst thing about these four years, is letting him consume your livelihoods when you staked the resistance on precisely the opposite: Not letting him consume your lives. Stunningly, it worked but since it has worked, let it go.

We don't have concentration camps, we're not at a large scale war(and in fact, the bastards want the opposite. Got to keep that money gravy train flowing.). This has already gotten more exhausting than Hillary derangement syndrome or Obama derangement syndrome, and it hasn't been a month.

 

Stings, doesn't it.

 

Wow.

YET, they went along (and were complicit) in Trump's 4-Year Mission to Destroy America?

Go figure.:smh:

 

It's STUPID. Get over it. He's gone, focus on better things with your energy.

 

82? Where did you get that from?

In 2024, Trump would be 78 (roughly the same age as Biden is now).

Which is exactly why people aren't ruling out a Trump run in 2024.

 

What? Compare our posts, then come back and tell me who's expending too much energy.

 

He Isn't GONE, Yet...

Trump (That Treasonous Disgrace to the Office) still has 57 day to continue his mission to Destroy America.

Nobody can rest easy UNTIL after Biden is sworn in.

Trump is far from "gone".

 

People who think trump will run in 2025 are being duped. My prediction is he will use the next four years to collect all your contributions to help him run in 2025, which he'll find a reason not to. Of course if he's in prison then he will be wanting you to contribute to his appeals fund. He knows he has a large crowd of losers and suckers who love sending him money.

 

Breaking news, DC swamp hates Trump. Jeez. Who knew?

 

Who cares what Bernstein says? What we have in Biden is someone his own VP said is a racist and an abuser of women. Plus we all saw the video clips of his racist remarks plus his sniff-sniff perversions. i don't think Bernstein can top that.

 

You must be triggered by all he has done for minorities.

 

~ Capitol Hill want Trump out - both democrats and republicans. Trump is not part of their established elite club of sell-outs. Trump is the people's president. He actually worked for all Americans.

Bernstein is not telling us anything we do not already know. He's just another selfish egotistical hack cashing in on the Trump train.

 

It's been 4 years, still the libs are completely unable to comprehend that their absurd "but swamp hates Trump, but elites hate Trump, but career bureaucrats and politicians hate Trump" argument only reinforces our conviction that we chose well in 2016.

Libs, newsflash, pay attention, THIS IS WHY WE ELECTED TRUMP. TO GIVE THEM HELL.

 

How many swamp creatures and corrupt elites has Trump successfully prosecuted and imprisoned in 4 years?

 

I feel like they're probably worse people than Trump if this is true

 

In fact the swamp spent 4 years persecuting Trump and his supporters. The fascist left eagerly helped. Trump has exposed the swamp, it's existence, its viciousness, the lefts' viciousness and fascist tendencies to the entire country. It's a good start.

 

Great.

But how many members of the swamp Trump has put in jail in 4 years?

Not easy to answer. Yet, it is such a simple question.

 

You don't need to expose this sort of intellectual dishonesty in two posts in a row. We got it from your first post.

That said, we are more than satisfied with Trump's achievements... and you're obviously celebrating illegal spying on american citizens, censorship, cancel culture and corrupt ruling classes selling the country wholesale and piecemeal. Well, to each their own.

PS libs who spent 4 years sabotaging and undermining Trump's efforts to prosecute the swamp are celebrating that the corrupt swamp is alive and well. you can't make this up.

 

The only ethnic group of Americans he worked for were the Trump-Americans. You know Donnie, Evanka, Jr. Nr. Jr., Erik, Jerrod, Tiffany if she loses weight, ...

 

Intellectual dishonesty ? Where ?

Trump was elected with the promise to clean up and drain the swamp.

He has accused dozens of people of corruption since 2017.

He has placed people of his own all over the government and fired 80% of them to place even more people loyal to him.... Even to the FBI.

He has pressured Barr to investigate Biden and others.

Despite all this, nothing.

Not even a prosecution, let alone a conviction.

Strictly nothing.

Why not?

To that, you can only answer with ridiculous plots or make Trump look like a victim of the "Deep State".

 

Donald Trump Backing Don Jr. or Ivanka for 2024 Is Fine by Republicans—but They Prefer Mike Pence

A majority of Republican voters would support Donald Trump backing one of his children to run for the presidency, polling suggests; though more would like Vice President Mike Pence as the 2024 pick.

In a Seven Letter Insight poll of 1,500 voters in 2020, surveyed November 10-19, more than half (52 percent) of respondents who identified as Republicans said they would support Trump endorsing one of his children for president in 2024.

However, a greater proportion (66 percent) said they would support Donald Trump running again in four years.

While the notion of a Trump Jr. or Ivanka run could muster some backing, surveys have indicated that Vice President Pence is a more popular pick than either of them.

 

It should not matter if that group hated Trump whatbis important is that they did nothing to stop his actions or at least mitigate them.

 

Intellectual dishonesty in pretending not to recognize the enormous power the swamp wields, their deliberate sabotage of all Trump's initiatives and efforts that your leftist ilk was deeply and giddily involved in, the totally illegal 3 year long witch hunt, the bogus impeachment.

Intellectual dishonesty in pretending that under the circumstances Trump could have done more, when what he has actually achieved was nothing short of a miracle.

Intellectual dishonesty in pretending not to know that in the fight against the swamp corruption you libs were 100% on the swamp's side undermining Trump every step of the way, so for you to claim that he has not completely achieved his goals is the epitome of intellectual dishonesty.