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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Sun Dec 22, 2019, 12:13 PM Dec 2019

Us vs. them: Trump aiming to use impeachment to rev up base

NEW YORK (AP) — Using stark “us vs. them” language, President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign have begun framing his impeachment not as a judgment on his conduct but as a referendum on how Democrats regard him and his supporters.

Mere days from the start of an election year, the White House and its allies are painting Trump's impeachment on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress as an effort to undo his 2016 victory and discount the will of the people.

There was nothing subtle about Trump's pinned tweet shortly after impeachment: “In reality, they’re not after me. They’re after you,” was plastered above a photo of Trump pointing at the reader. “I’m just in the way.”

All but certain to be acquitted in next year’s trial by the Republican-controlled Senate, Trump has considered a barnstorming tour after the yet-to-be-scheduled trial ends, hoping to use a backward-looking message to propel him forward in 2020. His campaign believes that anger at impeachment may be the motivation needed to bring out voters who stayed home in the 2016 election but approve of the president and are fed up with the Washington establishment.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-vs-them-trump-aiming-to-use-impeachment-to-rev-up-base/ar-BBYf5Fo?li=BBnb7Kz

Same shit he's always done.

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Us vs. them: Trump aiming to use impeachment to rev up base (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2019 OP
It will work, too. CrispyQ Dec 2019 #1

CrispyQ

(36,478 posts)
1. It will work, too.
Sun Dec 22, 2019, 12:23 PM
Dec 2019

I've already seen a meme of the Con's face posted over the most interesting man in the world's face with the text: I don't always get impeached but when I do I get re-elected.

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