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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGaetz overheard on phone to Trump last night: "I was happy to do it for you." (from The Atlantic)
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Edward-Isaac Dovere (The Atlantic)
@IsaacDovere
President Trump called @mattgaetz last night from Hanoi to talk the Cohen testimony and the threats (since rescinded) Gaetz made about Cohen.
"I was happy to do it for you. You just keep killing it," Gaetz was heard telling him. (Gaetz told me he doesn't discuss calls w/POTUS)
LexVegas
(6,067 posts)exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Let's say the car bomb did work in Sicily and Michael is out of the picture. Trump runs the country more like Fredo.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)... but with Mike's ruthlessness.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)make Fredo out to be more vicious than he appears in the movies.
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)ScratchCat
(1,990 posts)Executive Privilege only covers cabinet members and aids, not members of Congress in personal conversations with the President.
If this is true, then he will be disbarred for certain, likely cesured and removed from the House, and possibly charged with a crime.
littlemissmartypants
(22,691 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)And "likely censured and removed from the House, and possibly charged with a crime."
All of the above should happen. And this is just one more charge for Mueller to add to Trump's list of crimes, since he told Gaetz to text that to Cohen.
Sadly, Nancy Pelosi probably couldn't get 2/3rds of the House vote to expel Gaetz however.
Thank you, ScratchCat.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)Would we still get the rethugs to vote to expel him from Congress? No.
Even with a conviction, those assholes would resist.
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)that Trump told him to do it?
How else would Gaetz have personal info about Cohen's potential affairs?
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)erronis
(15,286 posts)Not very smart but busy. I wonder if he doesn't get thumb-spurs....
littlemissmartypants
(22,691 posts)OliverQ
(3,363 posts)That's another felony for Trump.
littlemissmartypants
(22,691 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)And a servile maggot like Gaetz likely falls all over himself attempting cartwheels and backflips constantly to get the attention of the Dear Leader.
It opens the possibility that Trump directed him, but it is in no way a sure bet.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)and our Reps to demand Gaetz resign or at least be removed from committees.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)going to prison for three years, adultery may somehow seem less traumatic?
Zoonart
(11,869 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Are they trying to get rid of Robert Mueller by sheer exhaustion at this point?
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)area51
(11,909 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,691 posts)But right now it's all they've got. Prestidigitation is all he's got. All he ever had, really. That and basic bullying but it's still all about the same.
Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)It's just constant bullying.
uponit7771
(90,346 posts)Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)since they are investigating his behavior. Why hasn't the House censured him yet?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,691 posts)Thanks Mrs. Overall.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)dawnie51
(959 posts)I knew it came straight from Dump, and this putz Gaetz was just the delivery system. Almost word for word the same threats that Dump tweeted a few weeks ago, concerning Cohen's wife and father-in-law. Gaetz had no access to Cohen's doings. This was all Dump. Gaetz is just this years Nunes. I want to see all of them in jail.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)tRump held in the Rose Garden. I remember Gaetz trying to sidle up to tRump, inching his way closer for the photo-op. If it wasnt clear then that he and tRump had a special relationship, it should be very clear now. Gaetz is tRumps Little Weasel. That is what I call him every time I see his grinning little mug. (He is my rep in Congress. ) My guess is that he is grinning less these days. Hope the FL Bar Association clips his stubby wings. Congress is breathing down his neck, too.
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)How can ANY sane person feel anything but disgust towards IQ45?
Javaman
(62,530 posts)Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)Let him keep seeking the spotlight. You know this corrupt son of a bitch has a lot of skeletons in his closet. Matter of time.
Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)Trump for the most part is no different than a mob boss.
catbyte
(34,393 posts)Utterly disgusting.