Molly Jong-Fast: Trump has used expression "head on a pike" before

[Dennis Donovan]

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Molly Jong-Fast ✔@MollyJongFast

And it’s not like Trump has used this expression before.... oh, wait.

Emily Cochrane ✔@ESCochrane

Republicans are VERY angry about Schiff’s decision to reference that CBS “head on a pike” report. Murkowski says “that’s where he lost me.” Barrasso says “whatever gains he may have made, he lost all of it — plus some — tonight.”

8:33 AM - Jan 25, 2020

Hmm... sounds like something he'd say!

[dewsgirl]

1. Is it possible they live in such a bubble, that they hadn't

heard about the Trump/pike comment? 👀

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Possible, but not plausible when put into a larger context of his previous threatening behavior

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They know he's a shitheel that would say such a thing - they were coached to clutch their pearls by either McConnell or the WH.

[madaboutharry]

3. The republicans are the queens and kings of fake outrage.

Fake outrage allows them to avoid facing the fact that they are covering up for a dictator.

[LessAspin]

4. GOP thugs like this term...

Gary Schroen alleges that shortly after 9/11, his CIA superior, J. Cofer Black, ordered fellow CIA agents to behead Osama bin Laden, and deliver his head in a box of dry ice to George W. Bush. Black allegedly also ordered the delivery of the heads of other al-Qaeda lieutenants to Bush, on “pikes”...

Murkowski's statement might be half true. The 'heads on a pike' thing is where she caved. Although more likely it was when Trump, not Schiff, used it to threaten them. So it becomes a convenient excuse to absolve themselves now.