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turbinetree

(24,688 posts) Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:33 PM Jan 2020

CNN hosts stunned after GOP senator refuses to say Trump shouldn't break the law to win reelection

Published 1 min ago on January 30, 2020
By Brad Reed

CNN hosts Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow on Thursday found themselves stunned after Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) refused to say whether he thought President Donald Trump should be allowed to do anything he wants to win the 2020 election.

During their interview, the hosts asked Barrasso what he made of Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz’s now-infamous argument that the president shouldn’t be impeached for shaking down a foreign government to win help with his election on the grounds that he believes getting reelected is in the public interest.

“What’s your reaction to that extremely expansive definition of presidential power?” Sciutto asked him. “Do you reject that argument?”

“What I’m saying is, presidents have specific powers under the Constitution, I listened to Dershowitz make that case yesterday, and what he is saying is even if the case is proven by the House, it still doesn’t rise to the level of impeachment,” Barrasso replied.

Sciutto, however, pressed him to answer the question.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/cnn-hosts-stunned-after-gop-senator-refuses-to-say-trump-shouldnt-break-the-law-to-win-reelection/

And the asshole from the libertarian state looks right into the camera and with those eyes says fuck the Constitution without blinking................

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough................

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CNN hosts stunned after GOP senator refuses to say Trump shouldn't break the law to win reelection (Original Post) turbinetree Jan 2020 OP

Amazing but then not underpants Jan 2020 #1

I wish the antelope could vote, there are more of them than these jerks.................. turbinetree Jan 2020 #3

He's one of the shitheads that files ot and stands being McConnell. dem4decades Jan 2020 #2

He knows it's an untenable position to have Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2020 #4

This is where we are. MontanaMama Jan 2020 #5

The right wing republicans are compromised, you nailed it................ turbinetree Jan 2020 #6

He's a F...king physician. He knows better, but I can recall WY Public Health CONSTANTLY having to hlthe2b Jan 2020 #7

And you will never guess how he got his current job....................... turbinetree Jan 2020 #8

uggh... only underscores how endangered Democrats are there that GOV didn't think he could hlthe2b Jan 2020 #9

"Obviously, Jim, Democratic presidents shouldn't be allowed to do much of anything tanyev Jan 2020 #10

underpants

(182,729 posts)

1. Amazing but then not

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:37 PM

Jan 2020

If ten voters switch in Wyoming he could get primaried.

turbinetree

(24,688 posts)

3. I wish the antelope could vote, there are more of them than these jerks..................

Reply to underpants (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:41 PM

Jan 2020

I use to live in the state (15 years) and the mentality is just amazing.......................

dem4decades

(11,282 posts)

2. He's one of the shitheads that files ot and stands being McConnell.

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:40 PM

Jan 2020

I'd expect nothing less from that asshole. How many people vote for him anyway? The Senate makes this country minority rule. Greatest democracy? Hardly.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,401 posts)

4. He knows it's an untenable position to have

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:43 PM

Jan 2020

but it's essentially what they're left with if they vote to hurry up and acquit Trump.

MontanaMama

(23,297 posts)

5. This is where we are.

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:45 PM

Jan 2020

They're all compromised and will toe the party line to save their asses. I think they really believe that if they keep this up, the MF will be re-elected and they'll stay right where they are.

turbinetree

(24,688 posts)

6. The right wing republicans are compromised, you nailed it................

Reply to MontanaMama (Reply #5)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:53 PM

Jan 2020

hlthe2b

(102,192 posts)

7. He's a F...king physician. He knows better, but I can recall WY Public Health CONSTANTLY having to

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:54 PM

Jan 2020

correct his "PSA" messages on health when he did radio bits during his time practicing in the state. He's as clueless on many areas of medicine as he is even "lay" interpretation of law.

turbinetree

(24,688 posts)

8. And you will never guess how he got his current job.......................

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #7)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 05:04 PM

Jan 2020

https://ballotpedia.org/John_Barrasso

Ballotpedia forgot to mention who the Governor when he appointed him..............(D) Governor Dave Freudenthal

hlthe2b

(102,192 posts)

9. uggh... only underscores how endangered Democrats are there that GOV didn't think he could

Reply to turbinetree (Reply #8)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 05:08 PM

Jan 2020

get by with nominating anyone but a damned Republican.

tanyev

(42,541 posts)

10. "Obviously, Jim, Democratic presidents shouldn't be allowed to do much of anything

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 06:54 PM

Jan 2020

that would help them win an election, but certainly the sky’s the limit for Republican presidents.”

*Not quite an actual quote

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