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CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 11:14 AM Dec 2019

Trump commits felony bribery by giving Senate Republicans bribes ahead of trial

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/31/trump-impeachment-senators-donor-062084

President Donald Trump is rewarding senators who have his back on impeachment — and sending a message to those who don't to get on board.

Trump is tapping his vast fundraising network for a handful of loyal senators facing tough reelection bids in 2020. Each of them has signed onto a Republican-backed resolution condemning the inquiry as “unprecedented and undemocratic.”

Conspicuously absent from the group is Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a politically vulnerable Republican who’s refused to support the resolution and avoided taking a stance on impeachment. With his new push, Trump is exerting leverage over a group he badly needs in his corner with an impeachment trial likely coming soon to the Senate — but that also needs him.

Republican senators on the ballot next year are lagging in fundraising, stoking uncertainty about the GOP’s hold on the chamber, and could use the fundraising might of the president. Trump’s political operation has raked in over $300 million this year.

On Wednesday, the Trump reelection campaign sent a fundraising appeal to its massive email list urging donors to provide a contribution that would be divided between the president and Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, and North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis. Each of the senators are supporting the anti-impeachment resolution despite being endangered in 2020.
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Trump commits felony bribery by giving Senate Republicans bribes ahead of trial (Original Post) CousinIT Dec 2019 OP
Take down their names. Kid Berwyn Dec 2019 #1
So in opposite world those pukes are fucked. pwb Dec 2019 #2
Bribery much? cilla4progress Dec 2019 #3
Hey, AG Barr: Bribery! bribery! bribery! -- right under your nose! nt NCjack Dec 2019 #4
Yeah, he just wants his cut. AJT Dec 2019 #7
Ernst-- Gardner and Tillis riversedge Dec 2019 #5
If so, USE that against them..... ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2019 #8
Bingo. paleotn Dec 2019 #9
I'm sure that when he called them on the phone FM123 Dec 2019 #6
Collins is dead politically and knows it. paleotn Dec 2019 #10
Trump is king. No one will do anything about this. Sorry for this dismal outlook, but I think it's triron Dec 2019 #11
I get called a cynic all the time. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #13
Waiting for it to come out duforsure Dec 2019 #12
whoaaa NJCher Dec 2019 #14
No, but his patterns show he's used that many times before, duforsure Dec 2019 #19
Remember justice Kennedy's resignation & his son working for ralps Dec 2019 #16
gotcha' NJCher Dec 2019 #17
Any Senator who signed on to this resolution should be required to recuse. ooky Dec 2019 #15
The ultimate fantasy... jmowreader Dec 2019 #21
Fantasy yes, but also fair game. ooky Dec 2019 #23
Headline imo should be "Senate Republicans guilty of felony bribery". cstanleytech Dec 2019 #18
This should be another article of impeachment Nancy Waterman Dec 2019 #20
Meanwhile, on the Democrat side, we are caught up in Winecavegate. Midnight Writer Dec 2019 #22

riversedge

(70,242 posts)
5. Ernst-- Gardner and Tillis
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 11:27 AM
Dec 2019


........ contribution that would be divided between the president and Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, and North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)
8. If so, USE that against them.....
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 12:02 PM
Dec 2019

Being tampered with before trial....CORRUPTION.

Say bye bye to your seats. Senators. Democrats running for those seats will have been given a HUGE gift.

FM123

(10,053 posts)
6. I'm sure that when he called them on the phone
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 11:46 AM
Dec 2019

he started with: I need you to do us a favor, though...

paleotn

(17,931 posts)
10. Collins is dead politically and knows it.
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 12:12 PM
Dec 2019

This is a last ditch, desperation move on her part. If she goes down, I'll be dancing in the street. If we hold NH 1st and ME 2nd, New England will be blue from the Hudson to the Atlantic to the Canadian border.

triron

(22,007 posts)
11. Trump is king. No one will do anything about this. Sorry for this dismal outlook, but I think it's
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 12:12 PM
Dec 2019

'reality' now.

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
13. I get called a cynic all the time.
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 12:35 PM
Dec 2019

A jaundiced view of America's slide into Autocracy is entirely warranted.

Their propaganda networks are unchallenged, and have captured the minds of America's xenophobic white voters. It will have them until they die.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
19. No, but his patterns show he's used that many times before,
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 01:53 PM
Dec 2019

To get the results he wants , and did he force Justice kennedy out with info on his son? I suspect he's called Roberts also trying to bribe, pressure or threaten him, or all of these tactics. He's very very corrupt, and desperate now.

ralps

(77,738 posts)
16. Remember justice Kennedy's resignation & his son working for
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 01:01 PM
Dec 2019

Deutsche bank! And trump’s loans with them

NJCher

(35,685 posts)
17. gotcha'
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 01:36 PM
Dec 2019

I remember that; more info on this may come out when the tax returns are released.

We know he's finished if those returns are released because he said so himself.

ooky

(8,924 posts)
15. Any Senator who signed on to this resolution should be required to recuse.
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 12:50 PM
Dec 2019

They are all incapable of providing impartial justice.

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
21. The ultimate fantasy...
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 02:08 PM
Dec 2019

Thirty Republican senators being required to recuse for being in bed with Trump and Putin. Because the Constitution requires two-thirds of those present to vote aye to get rid of Trump, recusing that many GOP senators will give us the opportunity to throw the bum out without one single GOP vote.

Then, after we take back the Senate, we EXPEL every last one of those assholes.

ooky

(8,924 posts)
23. Fantasy yes, but also fair game.
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 02:32 PM
Dec 2019

If we want to hold the articles of impeachment for a fair trial, these Senators have provided absolute proof that they cannot be expected to provide impartial justice. It seems Pelosi could
legitimately hold the articles of impeachment indefinitely using this argument.

Nancy Waterman

(6,407 posts)
20. This should be another article of impeachment
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 02:01 PM
Dec 2019

Bribery in plain sight. Also obstruction of justice and corruption.

Midnight Writer

(21,768 posts)
22. Meanwhile, on the Democrat side, we are caught up in Winecavegate.
Mon Dec 23, 2019, 02:16 PM
Dec 2019

While the oligarchs plunder our country, the opposition is tied up blasting each other for perfectly legal, and very common, fund raising events.

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