Republicans pick up where Trump's "perfect call" left off

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Republicans pick up where Trump’s “perfect call” left off
Republicans could have ended their Trump problem when he misused his office to support Putin the first time

By KIRK SWEARINGEN
Contributing Writer
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 5, 2024 5:45AM (EST)


(Salon) So, Donald Trump has betrayed the Ukrainian people for a second time.

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Donald Trump, private citizen, has insisted to elected members of Congress that there be no bipartisan agreement on new security measures for the southern border — you know, the “invasion” that Republicans are constantly talking about, which Democrats agree is a crisis that must be addressed.

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Does this remind you of anything? Yes, when Trump, then occupying the White House, tried to strongarm Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into saying that Ukraine was opening an investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden, when Joe Biden was still just one of many Democrats vying for his party’s nomination. Trump threatened to cancel a promised visit to the White House, and funding for military aid was delayed.

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People will lose loved ones so Trump can run on his favorite xenophobic issue, as much his comfort zone as all that orangy pancake makeup he applies to hide his face every day. He certainly has nothing else real to put before the American public, not on the economy (which Trump is now pathetically trying to claim as his own) or bolstering our foreign alliances or protecting the rights of American citizens. ..................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/05/pick-up-where-trumps-perfect-call-left-off/