How will Republicans distance themselves from Trump in the future?

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Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84)]Yesterday, Trump fired the Intelligence Community Inspector General who complied with a statutory duty to notify Congress of a whistleblower complaint because Republican Senators like Chuck Grassley let him. 1/ [/color]


[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84)]On Friday, Trump announced a replacement for the HHS acting Inspector General who issued a report on severe supply shortages on hospitals during a deadly global pandemic because Republican Senators like Ron Johnson let him. 2/ [/color]


[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84)]Last month, Trump replaced the DoD acting Inspector General who investigated whether he personally interfered in a $10 billion procurement to retaliate against Amazon's Jeff Bezos for news coverage in the Washington Post because Republican Senators like James Lankford let him. 3/ [/color]


[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84)]Last month, Trump nominated a White House lawyer who helped him stonewall the legislative branch during the impeachment process to be the Inspector General overseeing the coronavirus bailout because he knows Republican Senators like Susan Collins are fine with that. 4/ [/color]


[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84)]One of Trump's nominees for an IG position is a staff-level government lawyer who would need the management skills to oversee a 1600 person office overseeing the lead agency in the COVID-19 response because Republican Senators like Marco Rubio have signaled that anything goes. 5/ [/color]


[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84)]Trump fired an FBI Director for allowing the FBI to investigate him because Republican Senators like Lindsey Graham let him. 6/ [/color]


[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84)]Trump committed the impeachable act of firing an Attorney General for declining to stop an investigation of him because Republican Senators like Tom Cotton let him. He then replaced the AG with an unprincipled loyalist because every Republican Senator and 3 Democrats let him. /7 [/color]



[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84)]Trump fired a Director of National Intelligence he had personally appointed because the DNI's deputy spilled the beans to Congress that the Russians are trying to help him win another election because Republican Senators like Mitch McConnell let him. /8 [/color]