Last week CBS news reported that a White House “confidant tells CBS News that GOP senators were warned: ‘vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.'”
House manager Adam Schiff worked this CBS News report into his closing argument on Friday. Schiff said: “CBS News report that a Trump confidant said that GOP senators were warned … ‘vote against the president and your head will be on a pike,'” … “I don’t know if that’s true, but when I read that I was struck by the irony, by the irony.” “I hope it’s not true. I hope it’s not true.”
Cue the manufactured outrage machine and pearl clutching from Republican “snowflakes.” NBC News reports, GOP senators incensed by Schiff ‘head on a pike’ remark at impeachment trial:
Senate Republicans said lead impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff insulted them during the trial on Friday night by repeating an anonymously sourced report that the White House had threatened to punish Republicans who voted against President Donald Trump.
Schiff, who delivered closing arguments for the prosecution, was holding Republican senators rapt as he called for removing Trump from office for abusing his power and obstructing Congress. Doing anything else, he argued, would be to let the president bully Senate Republicans into ignoring his pressure on Ukraine for political help.
“CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that key senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’ I don’t know if that’s true,” Schiff said.
After that remark, the generally respectful mood in the Senate immediately changed.
Republicans across their side of the chamber groaned, gasped and said, “That’s not true.”
Clutching her pearls Sen. Susan Collins, the “mythical moderate from Maine,” looked directly at Schiff, shook her head and cried, “Not true.”
“Not only have I never heard the ‘head on the pike’ line,” Collins [whined] in a statement, “but also I know of no Republican senator who has been threatened in any way by anyone in the administration.”
On Saturday, Suzy Sowflake told NBC News, “I was very surprised. No one’s made any such threat. None of my colleagues had heard of it…I was offended because it wasn’t true.”
“But let me make clear that it’s not going to have an influence one way or another, his saying it is not going to have an influence one way or the other on my decision making.”
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
“That’s when he lost me,” Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican moderate, said about Schiff’s remark, according to her spokeswoman. She denied having been told what the network reported about the White House. Schiff’s invocation of it, she added, “was unnecessary.”
When he finished his speech and the trial adjourned, GOP Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and John Barrasso of Wyoming made a beeline for Collins’ seat. Collins again shook her head and said, “No.”
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told reporters that the CBS report is “completely, totally false.”
“None of us have been told that,” he added. “That’s insulting and demeaning to everyone to say that we somehow live in fear and that the president has threatened all of us.’
The CBS News report came from former long-time Fox News reporter Major Garrett, now at CBS News, who stands by his reporting.
Further undermining the manufactured outrage and Republican tears from these “snowflakes” is this interview from last night, again on CBS News, with the GOP House Freedom (sic) Caucus members on Trump’s impeachment team. These authoritarian Trumpsters warned that there will be a political price to be paid by those Republicans who vote against the president. So it is True!
CBS News reports Meadows says Senate Republicans would face “political repercussions” for breaking with Trump during trial:
In an interview with “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell, Congressman Mark Meadows said there would be repercussions if Republicans break with President Donald Trump on impeachment. O’Donnell sat down with impeachment defense surrogates Representatives Meadows, Doug Collins, Elise Stefanik and Debbie Lesko.
“Do you think Republican senators face political repercussions if they break with the president?” O’Donnell asked.
“Yeah, I do. I mean listen, I don’t wanna speak for my Senate colleagues. But there are always political repercussions for every vote you take. There is no vote that is higher profile than this,” Meadows said Monday.
You should watch the full interview. These Kool-aid drinking Trump cult followers are truly disturbing.
So spare me all this feigned outrage and tears over what everyone knows is Trump’s modus operandi. All crime bosses threaten retribution against anyone in their criminal enterprise who is disloyal to them. See, Trump’s Inner Mob Boss Emerges with Alarming New Threats to Politicians and the Press.
Courage is a virtue in short supply in the Republican Party.
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Here’s just two of the fine people representing Trump this week.
Alan Dershowitz, who was not just Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer but his friend and travel companion, and fellow child rapist if you believe the victim as I do.
It’s one thing to be Epstein’s lawyer, it’s another to fly on his private jet to his pedophile camps.
Pam Bondi, who dropped an investigation into Trump’s scam university after he gave her 25 thousand dollars from his scam charity, is a registered agent of Qatar.
So, a child rapist and a corrupt polictian turned lobbyist for a foreign country.
The rest of the lawyers arguing for Trump may well have their licenses revoked, because it’s illegal for a lawyer to knowingly lie in court, something I’m watching them do every few minutes.
Come on GOP, be better than this.