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brooklynite

(94,579 posts)
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 03:02 PM Oct 2019

Retiring GOP Rep. John Shimkus won't support Trump after Syria pullout

Source: Politico

Retiring Republican Rep. John Shimkus is ending his support for President Donald Trump after this week‘s withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Syria-Turkey border, calling the move “despicable.”

The Illinois Republican told St. Louis radio station KMOX on Thursday that after he learned about the withdrawal, he told his own chief of staff to “pull my name off the ‘I support Donald Trump’ list.”

Shimkus expanded his comments later Thursday, saying in a statement: “While my votes will continue to support the president’s domestic policy agenda, because of this terrible foreign policy decision I asked that my name be removed from his campaign’s official list of supporters.”

Shimkus joins a wave of Republicans who have denounced Trump for essentially leaving Syrian Kurds to fend for themselves against the Turkish military. Even close allies of the president, like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), the third-ranking Republican in the House, criticized the president’s move, especially after Turkish forces began an incursion into northern Syria on Wednesday.


Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/10/john-shimkus-support-trump-syria-044006



Once again, Republicans show courage only AFTER they leave office...
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Retiring GOP Rep. John Shimkus won't support Trump after Syria pullout (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2019 OP
spine growing material just beyond the exit door. rurallib Oct 2019 #1
With all the horrible things the man PatSeg Oct 2019 #2
Nope still not courage its probably his simply banking on any support he showed Trump in the past cstanleytech Oct 2019 #3
Okay, Shimkus. NOW, TODAY, switch parties... RobertDevereaux Oct 2019 #4
"While my votes will continue to support the president's domestic policy agenda" BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 #5

PatSeg

(47,463 posts)
2. With all the horrible things the man
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 03:28 PM
Oct 2019

has done in said the past few years, Shimkus supported him until now? I know those who are leaving office feel free to some extent to speak up now, but that is much too little too late. How could anyone with any conscience condone Trump's behavior? If political office is more important than your soul, you are just as bad as Trump.

cstanleytech

(26,291 posts)
3. Nope still not courage its probably his simply banking on any support he showed Trump in the past
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 03:29 PM
Oct 2019

coming back to bite him on the ass now if he decides to become a lobbyist.

RobertDevereaux

(1,857 posts)
4. Okay, Shimkus. NOW, TODAY, switch parties...
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 03:46 PM
Oct 2019

...and vote with the Dems for the rest of your miserable term in office.

BumRushDaShow

(129,030 posts)
5. "While my votes will continue to support the president's domestic policy agenda"
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 04:02 PM
Oct 2019

There IS no "domestic policy agenda" other than campaign rallies, golfing, photo-ops at fake wall-building locations, and keeping the KFC flowing, so that means he will be doing nothing.

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