Some of the few Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach him after he incited a violent insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, have been pouring tens of thousands of dollars into personal security measures.
Per first-quarter Federal Election Commission records reported by Punchbowl on Friday, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) spent $43,633 on a Utah-based security firm while his Senate colleague, Pat Toomey (R-PA), spent nearly $70,000 on five different companies that provide security surveillance and protection services.
On the House side, Reps. John Katko (R-NY) and Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH) plus House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) spent $19,874, $1,540, and a whopping $50,400, respectively.
Trump has personally targeted all of those lawmakers and the twelve other Republicans who voted to impeach him, calling out each of them by name during his speech at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and saying the party ought to “get rid” of them.
I know exactly where they should send their bills.
Mar-A-Lago
Sedition Department
1100 South Ocean Boulevard
Palm Beach, Florida 33480.
Define “get rid of them”. One of those nice, ambiguous, deniable phrases.
Like putting crosshairs over Gabby Giffords. Stochastic terrorism once again.
The RNC should be footing the bill for these security details, not the US taxpayers.
Ronna McDaniel…how 'bout signing off on those invoices?
So are these Republicans who are loading up on personal security protection worried about antifa, BLM, radical left-wing (woke) socialists coming after them?
Or…?
This is so sad. There is a long history of “dirty politics” in this country, going right back to just after the Revolution. I don’t think there has ever been a major political party which is ready to murder their enemies.