Where's the Republican defense of Trump?

[brooklynite]

Politico

AMID ALL THE FURIOUS responses to the Atlantic article alleging that President DONALD TRUMP had called American troops “suckers” and “losers,” one thing leaps out: You didn’t see Republican members of Congress leaping to defend the president’s character.

SOME OF THIS may be the late summer recess talking. But I’m told telephones and the internet still work outside of Washington -- and Trump’s closest allies on Capitol Hill did not exactly rally to his defense. Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-S.C.), for one, managed to praise the president for saving the military publication Stars & Stripes, but said nothing directly about the big story White House aides and loyal alumni were scrambling to discredit. Other prominent GOP members ignored the subject altogether.

[onetexan]

1. They've conveniently buried their collective heads in the sand, because they know it's indefensible.

[Thekaspervote]

2. This!!

[Nevilledog]

3. Well, there was Jim Jordan's vigorous defense.

Link to tweet

[underpants]

6. And this response

Link to tweet

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[Nevilledog]

7. Yup. Love YS.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. How can these republican thugs defend this POS in the WH? How? They're cowards anyways. Won't

stand up to him (obviously) and if they weren't wearing a shirt or such, you would see the big thick yellow stripe running down their backs.

[pwb]

5. Their silence enables Trump.

They are all with him. They just don't like that he says their hate out loud. They all have to go.

[underpants]

8. They are actually going with the ASSHOLE defense

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14028193

Said one senior administration official: “The president means no disrespect to our troops; it’s just that the way he speaks, he can sound like an asshole sometimes. That’s how he is when the cameras are off… It’s his style.”

[Beartracks]

10. Sorry, but "asshole" is not a style. It's a lifestyle.

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[Beartracks]

9. Saving Stars and Strips - pshaw.

First, you plan to defund it and make it go away.
Second, word gets out and there's a lot of attention decrying your decision.
Third, you decide NOT to defund it.
Lastly, you take credit for "saving" the publication.

More Trump bullshit.

Actually, this is kind of the Republican way: create or allow a situation, then take whatever credit you can get for working to reverse it. It's just that sometimes, they have to be forced to work to reverse it.

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[mucifer]

11. they are circling their wagons and saying the story was a lie

might work for them.

[panader0]

12. It's hard for them to talk when they're sitting on their thumbs.

[dawg day]

13. Gee, Lindsey "praises the president" for stopping the demolition of Stars and Stripes-

The demolition he ordered against the wishes of Congress months ago and was continuing up until yesterday.