While most Republicans have avoided commenting on the latest allegations against President Trump and his call with the Ukrainian president earlier this summer, two prominent Senate Republicans spoke out over the weekend, asking the White House to release information about the phone call.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who is considered to be one of Trump’s closest allies in Congress, told the New York Times that he hopes the White House can find an “appropriate way” to share the contents of the phone call, stopping short of criticizing any of Trump’s actions.
“I’m hoping the President can share, in an appropriate way, information to deal with the drama around the phone call,” Graham said. “I think it would be good for the country if we could deal with it.”
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) had stronger words of criticism for Trump and the White House, tweeting on Sunday that it was “critical for the facts to come out” and saying if reports about Trump pressuring Ukraine to help with his reelection were true it would be “troubling in the extreme.”
If the President asked or pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate his political rival, either directly or through his personal attorney, it would be troubling in the extreme. Critical for the facts to come out.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) September 22, 2019
While Republicans remain tight-lipped, the new developments surrounding the whistleblower complaint have pushed more Democrats to elevate calls for impeachment. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has avoided publicly embracing the term, but wrote in a letter to colleagues on Sunday that if the White House continues to hide the contents of the complaint it would lead to a “whole new stage of investigation.”
Slimeball Graham is starting to try to isolate himself from Trump. Maybe Vlad will give him a call and put him back in line. Also, I am sure that Susan Collins is concerned.
Bumper Cars is fun, isn’t it? It’s all pretend and NOTHING like a REAL highway pile up.
“Troubling in the extreme.” Mitt does his best Susan Collins impression. (Did he wear pearls to clutch at when he spoke?)
And Lil’ Linsey–forthright as ever.
We need to know EXACTLY what Trump said and what the responses were. And we need to know EXACTLY what was going on with military aid to Ukraine. Nothing less.
So for someone in the know…here are questions:
Possible scenario - donald did it all, and it comes out, and he’s ‘impeached’ – Unless Pence (Mike Pounce, you know the guy) gets wrapped up in this too with his Ukraine trip, Pence will become Prez. The first thing Pence does is pardon donald, saying it’s obvious poor donald is ill (mentally).
Does a Pence pardon protect donald from prison?
Nancy P. has said she doesn’t want to do impeachment, however, she has said she wants to see him behind bars right? Maybe we can get both?
It’s 2016 all over again and donald sure can’t plead ignorance as a defense of the law…or can he?
I hardly think anything the WH discloses will have any truth to it. We need information from the whistleblower and recorded tapes of conversation, not WH BS.