The former president is telling Republicans he "doesn't want Biden to have a victory" in 2024, said a source familiar with the bipartisan negotiations.
The former president is telling Republicans he "doesn't want Biden to have a victory" in 2024, said a source familiar with the bipartisan negotiations.
Donald Trump on Wednesday privately pressured Senate Republicans to “kill” a bipartisan deal to secure the U.S. border because he doesn’t want President Joe Biden to chalk up a win ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to a source familiar with the tenuous negotiations on the package.
Trump directly reached out to several GOP senators on Wednesday to tell them to reject any deal, said this source, who requested anonymity to speak freely. The GOP presidential frontrunner also personally reached out to some Senate Republicans over the weekend, the source told HuffPost.
“Trump wants them to kill it because he doesn’t want Biden to have a victory,” said the source. “He told them he will fix the border when he is president… He said he only wants the perfect deal.”
No surprise there. Senate Republicans want another delay in a Democrat win to fuck over America. Remember how Iran delayed releasing hostages so Reagan could use it against Carter?
That wasn't even the first time. Nixon tried to sabotage Vietnamese peace talks in 1968 to hurt LBJ. It worked then too, the only thing that matters when you want power is winning.
Trump did it also with tax break for workers that ended during Biden's term as well as the disaster Afghanistan retreat was negotiated by Trump to occur in Biden's first 100 days.
Well, not just America. Remember that part of the border deal crap involves Republicans agreeing to fund military aid to Ukraine. Ukraine is defending themselves from Russia. Putin runs Russia. Trump really likes Putin, far more than any normal person would.
Also, there's a non-zero chance we'll get dragged into a war with Russia if Putin attacks a NATO country after Ukraine. Senators know that if we don't fund Ukraine now, it will be much worse for everyone later, and potentially having Trump at the helm during that time would be an unmitigated disaster.
I know Repubs don't actually want a functioning government, but JFC, when half the govt actively, publicly and LOUDLY works against it, it's no surprise it's so fucked up.
What I think we should all be very concerned about is if they erode institutions, regulations, and the rule of law then they really can go ape (literally) enforcing their insecurities. Forcing women to stay in abusive or unwanted marriages, abortion and birth control restrictions, removing reading material, protecting "different" people from violence? It all goes out the window if they get their way.
I think this is a half truth given events in Texas. They don't want a functional government unless they control it and it represents their interests. They being the few party elites.
But that's the thing - they already hold an incredible amount of power and influence to control how things are run to protect their interests. Abbot is throwing a fit because the federal government stopped him murdering people he doesn't like. It's not enough to have power to secure their own position, they also want the power to reduce the position of people they see as inferior
GOP congressmen were literally complaining about not having any accomplishments to show during this term, and their strategy is to keep doing nothing? Awesome plan dudes, keep it up.
We're going to be fighting Fascism at least until Trump is too old or senile to keep going. He has a death grip on the party, but at least nobody else thus far can take up his mantle.
The bitch of fascism is always in heat. When he croaks it his supporters won't suddenly turn into rational people, another piece of shit will pick up the torch.
Total aside, but Trump is looking thin and more stressed than usual in this pic. Most presidents start to grey in the hair and age faster during their terms, but I always felt Trump looked the same (probably cuz he was unfazed by the stresses of being president cuz he simply didn't give a shit), but here...it lools like he's finally starting to show the pressure on his face. Good.