Robert Reich explains how the GOP is playing Trump until they can dump him

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‘They’ll pull the trigger’: Robert Reich explains how the GOP is playing Trump until they can dump him

Writing on Facebook, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich relayed a conversation with a former GOP member of Congress who claims current members of the House are playing along with President Donald Trump for now but will dump him at the first possible moment.

According to Reich, he recently had breakfast with a Republican friend who claimed he held his fire over his misgivings about Trump during the election, saying, “You kidding? I was surrounded by Trump voters. I’d have been shot.”

That was when the conversation took an interesting turn when Reich asked his friend what the GOP will do now that Trump is president.

“They’ll play along for a while,” the unidentified friend said. “They’ll get as much as they want – tax cuts galore, deregulation, military buildup, slash all those poverty programs, and then get to work on Social Security and Medicare – and blame him. And he’s such a fool he’ll want to take credit for everything.”

Asked what happens then, the Reich’s friend laughed and said, ‘They like [Vice President] Pence.”

more…http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/theyll-pull-the-trigger-robert-reich-explains-how-the-gop-is-playing-trump-till-they-can-dump-him/

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[marylandblue]

2. So far it looks like Trump is playing the GOP nt

[Trust Buster]

3. And this is precisely why the "I" word should not come from the lips of a Democrat.

The one point left out of the above OP is that Republicans will want Democrats to do the dirty work to impeach this fool. That way, they can train their puppet followers do believe that it is all OUR FAULT while they get what they really want......PENCE. We should not be their puppets as well.

[watrwefitinfor]

4. ...

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. Given what was published from Howard Stern today

About how Trump really didn't want to be President, I started thinking about Reich's post:

(from Facebook, January 21)

"I had breakfast recently with a friend who's a former Republican member of Congress. Here's what he said:

Him: Trump is no Republican. He’s just a big fat ego.

Me: Then why didn’t you speak out against him during the campaign?

Him: You kidding? I was surrounded by Trump voters. I’d have been shot.

Me: So what now? What are your former Republican colleagues going to do?

Him (smirking): They’ll play along for a while.

Me: A while?

Him: They’ll get as much as they want – tax cuts galore, deregulation, military buildup, slash all those poverty programs, and then get to work on Social Security and Medicare – and blame him. And he’s such a fool he’ll want to take credit for everything.

Me: And then what?

<snip>

Him: So the moment Trump does something really dumb – steps over the line – violates the law in a big stupid clumsy way … and you know he will ...

Me: They impeach him?

Him: You bet. They pull the trigger.

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I'm thinking that congressional Republicans weren't expecting for Bannon to play such a big roll, be such a puppetmaster. They're scrambling.

They don't want to just impeach Trump. They want to SUCCESSFULLY impeach Trump. Not just embarrass him, not just censure him. The question is, exactly how far will they let him go. While they're waiting for their "goodies", they know he may start WWIII.

I just want to collectively slap their faces, shake them and scream

THIS IS NOT SOME FUCKING GAME!!!