Whistle-Blower’s Complaint Is Said to Involve Multiple Acts by Trump

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(10-10-2019, 09:15 AM)Au165 Wrote: I get that, but that can be their spin as the story narrative being pushed is he is a criminal. He himself is pushing the due process narrative as if this is a criminal investigation and that will continue that belief in the general public.

Currently yes, but if this thing goes south for him and they lose the public support he isn't going to walk away like Nixon he is going to go down in a ball of fire. That damage to the Republican party would be disastrous so they could use his spin out as proof his mental capacity is shot. This all requires Pence to be on board but I wonder if the party could convince him to do it if hey were in a tail spin.  

If we are talking about GOP Senators, they are still beholden to their voters, a majority of whom still think Trump has done a great job as president and, like the "Russia thing," see this whole impeachment thing as just a legislative coup to take down the one president who finally kept his promises. Trump the liar is just a persona he adopts to explode liberal heads.

I know it is hard to grasp, but there really are masses of people out there who 1) think Trump is doing  good job and/or 2) he has done nothing impeachable to this point--it's all just Dem butthurt and yammer. Sure, "different style." But you don't impeach because of style.  If people don't see anything really wrong with Trump's behavior, then they assume objections to him as president are just "partisan." Still more worried about "socialism" (as they were in 2008 and 2012) than the unfolding disaster of our foreign policy and daily degradation of the highest office in the land.

I do think that most GOP politicians DO recognize the danger to the party that you point out. They did before the election. But so far they are still trapped by their own voters. That won't change likely until we start seeing more cracks in the Fox programming.