Cheeto aides secretly panic as impeachment talk increases among Republicans

[fleur-de-lisa]

https://shareblue.com/trump-aides-secretly-panic-as-impeachment-talk-increases-among-republicans/

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And they don’t understand why Trump is fueling resentment against his own party by tacitly supporting Steve Bannon’s self-described “war” on sitting Republican members of Congress.

The rising sense of panic comes as the Trump White House still searches for its first major legislative victory. Republicans control the White House, the Senate and the House, yet they’ve been completely impotent in terms of passing any kind of agenda. (Trump instead has been reduced to signing vindictive executive orders.)

“If we lose the House, he could get impeached. Do you think he understands that?” one top GOP donor recalled an exasperated, anonymous Republican senator complaining.

Another GOP congressional aide predicted the Democrats would make Trump’s life a “living hell.” CNN reports that top White House officials have openly discussed the threat of impeachment among themselves, but don’t dare to bring it up with Trump.

[LisaM]

1. Panic?

At this point, you'd think even they would be relieved if the whole gig was up. Does anyone at the White House seem happy, and do they really think they're serving the people of this country?

[aikoaiko]

3. My thoughts exactly. They should be relieved before something happens and we have

Nuremberg Trials II.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. It is my fond hope

that, by the time our long Trumpian nightmare ends, Republicans will WISH that Hillary Clinton would have gotten elected President because at least then they'd be getting to torture and harass her secure in their knowledge that she wouldn't potentially instigate WW3 and it would be viewed as the "usual" partisan food-fighting. As things stand now, Trump is torturing and scaring everybody in this country and even "traditional" or "establishment" Republicans are being targeted along with Democrats, poor people, minorities, LGBTQ persons, immigrants, et. al. Even if the "establishment" Republicans decide they've had enough and ultimately manage to dump Trump, his base would ravage them at the polls and installing Pence probably won't matter much because Trump being removed from office would still stain him (and he may be tangled up in the Russian mess himself, as well as several Republicans).

[Iliyah]

2. t-rump just made nice with mc turtle

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. He has been meeting/golfing with many of them individually over the last few days.

Cheeto is just trying to save his ass. I think someone finally told him that his war against establishment republicans will backfire and hasten his ouster if Dems take control of the House in 2018. He is too stupid to have any grasp of how government works, so someone had to spell it out for him.

[Binkie The Clown]

6. When the Dems take the House, the first thing some high-ranking Dem will do is

to declare that "impeachment is off the table".

Why? I don't know. It's just a pattern with Dem pols to cave at every opportunity.