Congressional Cowards is a weekly sequence highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—irrespective of how disgraceful or lawless his actions.
Republicans proved once more this week that they’ll go to the ends of the earth to defend President Donald Trump—irrespective of how disturbing his actions could also be.
After a discharge petition lastly reached the variety of signatures wanted to drive a vote on releasing the Epstein recordsdata, GOP lawmakers desperately lined for Pricey Chief.
“I think this is a massive distraction by the Democrats,” Home Speaker Mike Johnson, who saved the Home out of session in an effort to dam the vote, mentioned Wednesday.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson
“The Democrats have had this thing for four years, and let’s be honest, if there was something in there detrimental to President Trump, Joe Biden would have released it,” he mentioned. “He’s the anti-Christ to the Democrats. They want to bury him as soon as they could.”
“I’ve not gone by way of all the paperwork, he advised CNN.
“As a survivor I find it deeply offensive that DEMOCRATS would use Epstein victims to bury headlines about the vote to reopen the government today. Today of all days,” Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina wrote on X. “WTH is wrong with you people. You just keep reminding women and survivors you don’t support us.”
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
However Republicans nonetheless haven’t any good reply for why Trump will not launch the recordsdata if there’s nothing in them that’s damaging to him or his allies.
The truth is, he’s so petrified of the Epstein recordsdata getting out that he summoned Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado to the White Home in an try to persuade her to take away her title from the petition. Boebert was considered one of a handful of GOP lawmakers who joined Democrats in signing it.
And Trump is pissed about it.
“The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects,” he wrote on Fact Social. “Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap. The Democrats cost our Country $1.5 Trillion Dollars with their recent antics of viciously closing our Country, while at the same time putting many at risk — and they should pay a fair price. There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!”
However regardless of his finest efforts, Trump couldn’t cease the vote, which Johnson says will occur this week.
It stays to be seen if the Senate will vote on the measure. And even when it does cross, it is unlikely that Trump would signal it.
Which once more begs the query: What’s Trump hiding?
