Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) stepped up over the weekend as one of the few Republican senators willing to criticize President Donald Trump for asking foreign countries to dig up dirt on his political rivals.
“I thought the President made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent,” the senator told the Bangor Daily News on Saturday. “It’s completely inappropriate.”
Few other Republicans have spoken out against Trump after he openly declared last week that Ukraine and China ought to investigate 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
On Friday, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) slammed Trump’s “brazen and unprecedented” comment, saying that such a request was “wrong and appalling.”
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), an occasional Trump critic, also chided the President on Friday.
“Hold up: Americans don’t look to Chinese commies for the truth,” Sasse said in a statement to the Omaha World-Herald. “If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that’s a matter for American courts, not communist tyrants running torture camps.”
Collins will walk back her criticism. Private conversation with Trump in which he assures her that he was only joking is coming in 3…2…1…
Collins, even if you vote to convict, your ass is still history in the next election.
Have we addressed this part of Sasse’s comment? What fucking decade is he living in? What fucking decade is Nebraska living in that he talks like this?
This is Susan Collins they are talking about.
“I thought the President made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent,”
When you do something completely in character, deliberately, defend it to the hilt, trash the critics, lie about it multiple times and attempt a full blown cover up including trying to ruin multiple individuals including accusing them of unsubstantiated crimes then I think it is a mistake to call this a “Mistake”.
Crime would be a more apt word.
The end of Collins’ speech was interesting: “Susan, it’s okay to say this to make the Maine sheep happy, but don’t take any questions, Thanks, Mitch – oh sorry, I wasn’t supposed to read that last part.”