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global1

(25,240 posts) Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:51 PM Dec 2018

Why Do The Repugs Keep Circling The Wagons Around Trump And Protecting Him?.....

What does he have over them? How is he blackmailing them into protecting him? Is he threatening them that if they take him down he'll take them down with him?

He knows where all their skeletons are hidden. He could spill the beans and take down the whole Party if he wanted to. Is that what they are afraid of?

And if he doesn't know where their skeletons are hidden - he'll just lie and make things up to take them down. Is that what they are afraid of?

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Why Do The Repugs Keep Circling The Wagons Around Trump And Protecting Him?..... (Original Post) global1 Dec 2018 OP

I think it goes higher than Fraud 45. MontanaMama Dec 2018 #1

Power. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #2

Because many of them are complicit in the Russian conspiracy. BlueTsunami2018 Dec 2018 #3

Dark money Corgigal Dec 2018 #4

complicit jcgoldie Dec 2018 #5

What he has on them n/t malaise Dec 2018 #6

One might assume he has dirt on them: kompromat. fierywoman Dec 2018 #7

Trump isn't smart enough to have dirt on anyone. LakeSuperiorView Dec 2018 #11

PUTIN has bluestarone Dec 2018 #8

Because they're all complicit. We now know there were people in the Treasury department who were in Hassler Dec 2018 #9

Every one of them is bought and paid for. TeamPooka Dec 2018 #10

Yep Andy823 Dec 2018 #12

MontanaMama

(23,302 posts)

1. I think it goes higher than Fraud 45.

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:54 PM

Dec 2018

Russians are hiding in their closets...Russians with sacks of money.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

2. Power.

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:55 PM

Dec 2018

McConnell is focused on packing the Judiciary with far right Judges.

And tax cuts for his owners/donors.

BlueTsunami2018

(3,490 posts)

3. Because many of them are complicit in the Russian conspiracy.

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:55 PM

Dec 2018

If he goes down, they go down.

This is an incredibly dangerous time.

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)

4. Dark money

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:55 PM

Dec 2018

They risk being exposed. They are trying to protect themselves.

jcgoldie

(11,627 posts)

5. complicit

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:55 PM

Dec 2018

com·plic·it
/kəmˈplisit/
adjective
involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing.

malaise

(268,885 posts)

6. What he has on them n/t

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:56 PM

Dec 2018

fierywoman

(7,680 posts)

7. One might assume he has dirt on them: kompromat.

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:56 PM

Dec 2018

LakeSuperiorView

(1,533 posts)

11. Trump isn't smart enough to have dirt on anyone.

Reply to fierywoman (Reply #7)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 08:04 PM

Dec 2018

That is not to say that there isn't dirt on them, just that it held by someone other than Trump.

bluestarone

(16,900 posts)

8. PUTIN has

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:57 PM

Dec 2018

POISONED America like he did his other enemies

Hassler

(3,370 posts)

9. Because they're all complicit. We now know there were people in the Treasury department who were in

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:57 PM

Dec 2018

Contact with Russian spies, trying to get Hillary emails in 2016.

TeamPooka

(24,218 posts)

10. Every one of them is bought and paid for.

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:58 PM

Dec 2018

Andy823

(11,495 posts)

12. Yep

Reply to TeamPooka (Reply #10)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 08:11 PM

Dec 2018

Many of them took Russian money, directly or indirectly through pacs, and the Russians DID hack the republicans, even thought they claim their weren't hacked, and they got all kinds of things to use against them.

They also know trump has that information and will "rat" them out if they try and stand up to him.

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