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Lindsey Graham shredded for whining that having impeachment witnesses will 'go on for months'
January 26, 2021
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) lamented to Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday that if Democrats call witnesses for the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, then it's going to go on for months because then Republicans will want to call witnesses.
It prompted responses from viewers who noted that they actually do want to hear what the witnesses have to say on both sides of the aisle. It's unclear what witnesses the Republicans could call to discount what many saw on video.
<p>See the comments to Graham below: </p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7f327badbea8c45e7831fa78b2166f0d" id="87bb1"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354274906247229441"><div style="margin:1em 0">I'd like to hear what all the witnesses have to say. Under oath. Is Lindsey Graham trying to threaten us with the t… https://t.co/ya7dGmz2s1</div> — Joyce Alene (@Joyce Alene)<a href="https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/statuses/1354274906247229441">1611719273.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b9ce66829c02aef87679844a770a47e7" id="5c101"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354275506192056320"><div style="margin:1em 0">And then there's all the Justice Department officials who were dealing with Trump's effort to illegally overturn th… https://t.co/PoiMEDOfwk</div> — Jamie Dupree (@Jamie Dupree)<a href="https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/statuses/1354275506192056320">1611719416.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p><br/></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">Today alone Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham have both threatened to sabotage our government in order to punish congressmen carrying out their normal duties.<br/>— awwHALEnaww (@awwHALEnaww) <a href="https://twitter.com/awwHALEnaww/status/1354268123671769093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p><br/></p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b1a362d58d36e87e93ad71308df3bc62" id="a7454"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354256841480540160"><div style="margin:1em 0">.@LindseyGrahamSC lets do it! https://t.co/ZhONhxSXbn</div> — The_Shaman_The_Griot (@The_Shaman_The_Griot)<a href="https://twitter.com/KngWzr_D/statuses/1354256841480540160">1611714966.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4a698a8d3167016cf1f3f85577b7533c" id="99fd8"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354259635230830593"><div style="margin:1em 0">#LindseyGraham's first witness. https://t.co/ygXlQFbqRI https://t.co/FTOJhkFawt</div> — Sports Plus (@Sports Plus)<a href="https://twitter.com/PrepSportsPlus/statuses/1354259635230830593">1611715632.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p><br/></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">Oh no! Threatening due diligence?! looking for information? That actually sounds fair and reasonable... <br/>Sadly, that's not what he's saying. <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LindseyGrahamSC</a> is threatening to waste time and distract with more disinformation. <br/>If truth is on your side, discovery is a good thing.<br/>— Stacy (@sknu2) <a href="https://twitter.com/sknu2/status/1354281062587904000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p><br/></p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="346f8ef2936b100791edc250f0907f4b" id="2cd04"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354255694988337153"><div style="margin:1em 0">.@LindseyGrahamSC fine. The longer the trial goes on, the more of trump's and the GOP's crimes we will uncover and… https://t.co/pacO8Jkgvs</div> — 🥓 bacon 🥓 bacon 🥓 bacon 🥓 (@🥓 bacon 🥓 bacon 🥓 bacon 🥓)<a href="https://twitter.com/b_b_baconator/statuses/1354255694988337153">1611714693.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="684aadafa4fd59ffe7f3e60ad2d7f8da" id="07228"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354258624252502018"><div style="margin:1em 0">Why do I have to keep on looking at Lindsey Graham’s face https://t.co/yPq7Rs25Sn</div> — michael jortner (@michael jortner)<a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelJortner/statuses/1354258624252502018">1611715391.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c371c1b5ec084b3de4dda0f062f88b23" id="911ef"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354275188586598403"><div style="margin:1em 0">Holy f*ck, Lindsey Graham looks like the bus hit him, then backed it's ass up to make sure it hit him again. https://t.co/PqmiQWuk1k</div> — TheDaily (@TheDaily)<a href="https://twitter.com/StopTheCriminal/statuses/1354275188586598403">1611719340.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d09320b04320977a7e0c41c7368544b1" id="0d0d7"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354266929872179202"><div style="margin:1em 0">Ridiculous. In any case, Democrats and Republicans don’t call witnesses. The House managers and the Trump defense t… https://t.co/JwaXkHXAyJ</div> — Bill Kristol (@Bill Kristol)<a href="https://twitter.com/BillKristol/statuses/1354266929872179202">1611717371.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="da8d1070860388b42a9c9d30451a3a40" id="fcd10"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354265302117314564"><div style="margin:1em 0">@WeAreAllOther @Acyn He was in on the soft coup. Kinda hard to come back from that.</div> — WaitWhatWasITalkingAbout (@WaitWhatWasITalkingAbout)<a href="https://twitter.com/wait_about/statuses/1354265302117314564">1611716983.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p><br/></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">" Impeachment isn't about punishment; it's about cleansing the office of the president. "<br/><br/>Lindsey Graham<br/>— Michael Westcott (@lmichaelw1) <a href="https://twitter.com/lmichaelw1/status/1354280849122856967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p><br/></p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="bc5886ca25f8330f3ec1b45656137e70" id="a2422"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354280852457308162"><div style="margin:1em 0">Let me say it again, Lindsey Graham ain't 💩. https://t.co/QbfUcNU5i3</div> — The St.James Project (@The St.James Project)<a href="https://twitter.com/StJamesProject/statuses/1354280852457308162">1611720691.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="652ef3459d83bec69919f45482dcba14" id="29b48"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354280776431513606"><div style="margin:1em 0">Please @RepRaskin you MUST subpoena @GaSecofState to testify about @LindseyGrahamSC's illicit call to him to throw… https://t.co/h64emVMgA9</div> — David Tuniman (@David Tuniman)<a href="https://twitter.com/DTuniman/statuses/1354280776431513606">1611720673.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fae1ef5c5edbe730f3a896a4a2163ce5" id="f5dc8"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354280543848787971"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LindseyGrahamSC If this is the logic to argue against impeaching Trump, where one of the penalties is to prohibit… https://t.co/on7KptQMNS</div> — Keiichi58 (@Keiichi58)<a href="https://twitter.com/keiichi58/statuses/1354280543848787971">1611720617.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e172bd085dcf1c2b15601cf8f2773761" id="6efe0"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354280972498440201"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LindseyGrahamSC I thought you were out on Trump? Now you say “we will drag this out if they call witnesses?” Ar… https://t.co/csVGVkJ6xw</div> — Jim Vasquezi (@Jim Vasquezi)<a href="https://twitter.com/jvasquezi/statuses/1354280972498440201">1611720719.0</a></blockquote></div>
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McCarthy says he intends to give Marjorie Taylor Greene a talking-to after threats to kill Democrats
January 26, 2021
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said that he's concerned about newly-elected Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) for her threats to execute Democrats and FBI agents. According to Axios, he intends to speak with her.
A CNN report out Tuesday revealed a series of threats that Greene made against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in 2018 and 2019. According to the report, she threatened to execute Pelosi. She also threatened to do so with former President Barack Obama and former Secretaries Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. Greene was also found to have "liked" several posts that called for FBI agents' deaths.
<p>Greene blamed her "coms team" saying that other people post to her Facebook account when asked for comment. That, however, doesn't answer for the video in which she called for Pelosi's execution. </p><p>"These comments are deeply disturbing and Leader McCarthy plans to have a conversation with the Congresswoman about them," McCarthy's spokesperson said in a statement to Axios.</p><p>The report also recalled when former Rep. Steve King (R-IA) was taken off of all of his committees in 2019 for asking why terms like "white nationalism" and "white supremacy" had become "so offensive" to the public. </p><p>Axios noted that last year, King predicted that he would use the same threats to keep Greene in line. </p><p>"He'll hang the sin that he committed against me out in front of her like the sword of Damocles," King said.</p><p>When the leadership took out King, he was removed from the Judiciary and Agriculture Committees at a time that <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2019/01/15/steve-king-ag-committee-racist-remarks-iowa-farmers-republican-western-civilization-white-supremacy/2579211002/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">was crucial for Iowa farmers who lost their only lawmaker</a> on the committee. The problem with McCarthy threatening the same with Greene is thus far she <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/members/G000596" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">doesn't appear to have been assigned any committees</a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.axios.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-mccarthy-caustic-comments-2d603058-9588-4cb8-be02-3c066dc70562.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">See the full report at Axios. </a></p>
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Rachel Maddow: The GOP is a complete dumpster fire and Democrats are just trying to govern
January 26, 2021
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow opened her Tuesday show talking about the disasters facing the Republican Party as they fall out of power.
She noted that as the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump begins, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is already dealing with his own hypocrisy. Once the House impeached Trump, McConnell told Schumer that he wouldn't bring the Senate back to vote on conviction until after Trump was out of office. Now that Trump is out of office, McConnell voted Tuesday to dismiss the charges because Trump was no longer in office.
<p>"Yeah, they stormed the Capitol and tried to kill the vice president and the speaker of the House and probably lots of us," Maddow said of what she believes is GOP thinking. "And they stormed the Senate chamber and went through all of our desks and had guns and tasers and bats and ransacked the place and thought that would be the way that they would take control of the government while threatening to kill all of us. But you know what? It was nearly three weeks ago."</p><p>She noted 45 Republicans Tuesday voted that the attack was meaningless. </p><p>"So, if you mount a violent attack on the U.S. government, including your supporters seemingly being been on trying to kill the vice president and members of House and Senate, depending on the timing, it might be okay," Maddow continued. "They are really cool with this being what their party does right now. It is almost impossible to believe that that is where they are."</p><p>She then reported that newly elected Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene was outed for her 2018 and 2019 execution threats against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Barack Obama, former Secretary John Kerry, agents at the FBI and other Democrats. </p><p>"No sign whatsoever that will have any impact on Miss Greene's standing in the Republican Party or in Congress, because that's not weird for the Republican Party anymore," said Maddow. "And often when a party gets voted out of power, like the Republicans just were, they no longer hold the White House or the House or the Senate. Often, when that happens, in normal politics, you see all this reporting, all the headlines about 'oh, the party in disarray.' This is a very particular and peculiar kind of disarray."</p><p>This, she explained, is what happens to a party when "they are dealing with what we would usually think of as a fringe violent extremist criminal movement. But it is right at the heart of what they are offering the country and they are really taking great pains to make sure that the leader who drove them fastest and hardest, can run as their standard-bearer in 2024." </p><p>Meanwhile, she said, the Democratic Party is desperately trying to govern to pass the slate of bills that have been collecting dust on McConnell's desk for years. <br/></p><p>"It is very hard to have a stable democracy based on a two-party system if that's one of the two parties," Maddow said. "If that's their contention right now. 'What do we do about our members who bring guns onto the floor and saying our speaker should have a bullet in the head? And what do we do about a president who just mounted an attack on the Capitol? Should we just make sure his followers are charged and make sure he come back and run for president in 2024?'" </p><p>This, she said, isn't about the politics of the day, but about the "viability of democracy." </p><p>"On the Democratic side, they're just trying to govern," she said. "They're trying to figure out how to get something done without having to deal with that dumpster fire on the other side. How can that be your governing partner? However much we tend to treat politics as a horse race, a numbers game in terms of how many seats on each side, how much elections have consequences based on how many people are on each committee. Once the consequences are that you are in control of both Houses of Congress and the White House, the thing that is most key to your political success is to show whether you can do good things for the country with your power."</p><p>Watch a clip from Maddow's opener below: </p><p><br/></p>
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