Gregg Nunziata
@greggnunziata
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Exec Director Society for the Rule of Law (@chkbal). Phila lawyer. Fmr DOJ @marcorubio @senaterpc @SenJohnThune @senjudiciary. Opinions are my own.
Washington, D.C.
Joined August 2009
I wrote about the next chapter for the conservative legal movement here:.
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I disagreed with voting for Trump in 16 and 20. But, voting for Trump in 24, after Jan 6, just boggles my mind.
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I've never voted for a Dem. I left the top line blank twice. The case for Trump was weak but plausible in 16. It was worse in 20 but not fully discredited. It's now an affront to all I hold most dear. He must be defeated. Harris is asking for my vote, I will give it to her.
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This is not a good take. Neither the Senate nor its Majority Leader work for the President, and senators who think they do fail to understand their job, their oath, and our Constitution.
100% agree. I will do whatever it takes to get your nominations through as quickly as possible.
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It can't be said enough. Trump should have been impeached, convicted, and disqualified from holding office again. All these prosecutions, whatever the merits, are messy ways to plug a gap left by craven politicians who failed to do their duty.
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Tim Scott. Debasing himself even further by standing behind Trump and cheering every piece of garbage that comes out of his mouth. Laughing when Trump implies Sununu is on drugs. How disgraceful. Always remember.
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Guys, as an 80s kid, let me just tell you that it's wild that the Democrat is saying America is great and Russia is bad while the Republican is saying the opposite.
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So disappointing.
Statement from former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley today:. “Make no mistake, American national security is at risk if Kamala Harris becomes president.”
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My grandfather, hero, and best friend, Emidio/Emil "Jack" Nunziata, died almost 10 years ago at 95. He landed at Normandy on the second day after D-Day. He rarely told me grim stories about the war. One thing he mentioned, in passing, that at Normandy he had to walk over a
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Many "reluctant" Trump voters cannot understand how a conservative could vote for a Harris/Walz ticket, given how far left it might be. But, policy isn't everything. Fidelity to the Constitution, character, and fitness, these things matter too, in fact, they matter more.
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It cannot be said enough: The Court and the entire legal system are under tremendous pressure because we elected a man fundamentally unfit for the presidency.
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The most loathsome people in DC are those who leaked to the press in the late Trump admin about how dangerous he was and how they resisted him, but now endorse and flatter him. Absolute cretins.
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At 16 I was the Chairman of the local teen-aged GOP group. Before I was 20 I had worked on multiple GOP campaigns. My first job in DC was for @Heritage before the Bush admin and then multiple R Senators. I've always been an R, but a conservative first. And, Trump must lose.
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Because Senators do not work for the President and betray their office if they think they do. Lawyers used to know this.
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A lot of the people calling the NY prosecution illegitimate also thought the first impeachment, second impeachment, aborted independent commission, special committee, and special counsel investigation were procedurally unsound. A skeptical person might question their sincerity.
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A few dozen influential Republicans could have finished Trump in 20. They thought he should be finished, wanted him finished, but thought it safer for them personally to not get involved. Their shame is eternal.
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Virtually every man and woman who has held high office in the United States, Republican and Democrat, opposes, condemns, or refuses to support Trump. This includes his appointees. It's a sickness to believe this reflects well on him.
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On this day, three years ago, Congressional Republicans were ready to impeach, convict, and disqualify Trump from ever again holding office. Instead they blinked, acquitted, rehabilitated, and endorsed for reelection. A sickening tragedy.
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Tens of millions of people believe Bill Clinton is a liar, a sexual assailant, a draft dodger, a criminal, an all around scoundrel unworthy of the office of President of the United States. and just voted to reelect Donald Trump, enthusiastically.
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Just to be clear. This tweet is breathtakingly stupid, irresponsible, or both.
Just so we're clear:. The FBI - Biden, Garland & Wray - authorized the use of deadly force for their raid on Mar-a-Lago over some papers. Not to apprehend a terrorist or a drug kingpin. To see about some papers, many of which likely incriminate them in treasonous crimes. They.
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This is extremely unhelpful, reckless, and dishonest. It turns up the heat and invites retribution. We should demand better from our leaders.
Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination.
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It's disgraceful and disgusting to call one's own presidential inauguration "liberation day." You can only utter these words with a complete ignorance of history and of a president's obligation of stewardship.
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Confidence that our system will constrain a re-elected Trump is very misplaced. If our system were working as intended, we would not be contemplating the possibility of a re-elected Trump.
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Lots of well-meaning Republicans are truly, sincerely, talking themselves into an absurd idea that Biden and Trump are roughly the same threats to the Constitution. I get why they do this. It's easier than breaking out of your identity and loyalty. But it is still pathetic.
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Mike Lee's journey from never Trumper to coup-excusing, shit-posting, Putin apologist deserves more attention.
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It's very hard for me to get my head around the argument from "constitutional conservatives" that we need to support the coup guy over any Democrat. For the Constitution.
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What if . Kristi Noem's ghost writer was simply untrainable?.
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I felt like the right choice for a conservative in 16 and 20 was to not choose. In 24 we are faced with a GOP nominee who betrayed his oath of office. Not voting is a cop-out. Vote for the one who didn't try to do a coup.
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The Heritage Foundation, which gave me my first job in DC, has become a think tank that no longer thinks. It's a small dollar scam, draining dollars from retirees to accomplish nothing at all, while performing servility to charlatans. Tremendously sad.
Governor DeSantis has an extremely bright future in the conservative movement. While we all rally around our movement’s leader—President Trump—we also know that the future of conservative policies will be in how effectively we implement Trumpian conservatism. There is no one,.
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I worked at @Heritage in '97, when we thought dishonest lawbreaking to cover up sexual misconduct mattered. If you told me then that the place would fly Old Glory upside down, in defense of a felon who lied about cheating on his nursing third wife, I wouldn't believe it possible.
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Multiple Republican Senators are not running again, and they still cannot summon the courage of Pence to simply say they will not endorse a man who has contempt for the Constitution and would have them killed if it served his purposes.
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If you think the President has to go to Congress before launching a punitive raid on pirates, but that he can launch an assault on Congress to stay in office, you might have your Constitutional priorities askew.
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Nikki Haley is better than Trump in every way. More electable. More decent. More conservative. Less of a grifting, dissolute felon. She's a Republican who could win and govern. Trump fans and the Establishment hate her because her very existence exposes their bankruptcy.
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Sorry, an American official rocking in a bar in a nation fighting a Russian invasion? I'm for that.
This is the “Secretary of State” @SecBlinken jamming in a bar in Kiev while you’re forced to cough up tens of billions of dollars more for their war. However much you despise these people, it’s not nearly enough.
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Many high-profile Rs, including former cabinet members, are on record saying some variation of "Trump is dangerously unfit for high office, in both character and intellect," yet maintain they would support him anyway over any Dem. This is insane and itself dangerous.
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I've never been a Haley stan, but she's doing her country and her party an important service, without an obvious benefit to herself. I'm grateful for it.
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If there's one politician in America who has no credibility to criticize 180 degree flips, I'm sorry to say it's @NikkiHaley, for whom i voted.
We are seeing a Kamala Harris use the fake it until you make it strategy. She’s faking all of her stances, doing 180s on important policies, and trying to distance herself from Biden’s bad decisions. We will keep seeing it until the election. The one decision she can’t run away
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It's an embarrassing lack of basic civics that this would surprise or scandalize anyone. Good on Lankford for being a senator.
BREAKING: Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford refuses to commit to approving Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, says he has “lots of questions.” . Embarrassing.
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I can't tell you how many high profile current Trump enthusiasts privately told me around January 7 2021 how they were done with Trump, how disgusted they were, and how hard they would work to end him and his movement.
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At least 10 additional Republican Senators believed Trump guilty on the second impeachment. They just thought voting so was dangerous for them electorally and, in the end, it wouldn't matter because he'd never be re-elected. Lesson: do the right thing in the moment.
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It is no longer surprising, but still must be noted. The GOP's presidential candidate is openly campaigning against the rule of law, on a platform promising to abuse the pardon power, free criminals, and normalize political violence.
Trump says one of his “first acts” if elected president would be to free Jan. 6 rioters from jail time for crimes in connection with trying to stop the certification of the 2020 result.
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If a foreigner had little time in America and could only see five cities, which would you suggest she visit?. Me: NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Nashville.
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In a healthier Republic, Trump would have been impeached, convicted, and disqualified. R politicians would have shunned him. Voters would never again offer him a position of trust. Serial failures of normal political accountability have put great pressure on the courts.
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It is just shameful and unamerican for an incoming president to muse about taking land from peaceful allied nations, by force if necessary. Disgraceful, too, that his fanboys find it all funny, or inspiring.
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Conservatives of my vintage came of age believing, passionately, that the President should have to answer for sexual assault in a civil case. The new generation, apparently, believes the President should be free to commit any crime, with total immunity.
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This is a tremendously irresponsible tweet when we desperately need sober-minded leadership.
Shots fired near Trump while he was golfing. Trump is safe. But the left wants him dead.
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Not my main beat, but people seem unable to grasp that every healthcare system necessarily rations care in some way. Could be the government, could be markets, could be insurers. But there's no system where everyone gets all the care they'd like, at any price, immediately.
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This is emblematic of the crisis in the conservative legal movement. If you can see that someone on "your team" waged war on the Constitution and you still support him, you're not any kind of conservative, certainly not a legal one.
Collins: Just to be clear, you're voting for someone who you believe tried to subvert the peaceful transfer of power, that can’t even achieve his own policies, that lied about the election, who is facing 88 criminal counts . Barr: The answer the question is yes.
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He's really not just a bad choice for president. He's a guy who tried to do a coup. He's a guy with no understanding of the office or the Constitution. His foreign policy instincts are terrible and would do irreversible damage. Conservatives should say this plainly and oppose.
Is it too much to ask that those who are critics of Trump denounce him as “just” a bad choice for president, and not as the man who will destroy the country or world if elected? | @jimgeraghty.
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What Trump did with his constitutional trust disgraced and disqualified him. A self-respecting Congress would have ended his political career impeaching, convicting, and disqualifying. A more thoughtful GOP primary electorate would have rejected him. But now it falls to us.
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A fundamental disagreement I have with many of my conservative friends, especially lawyers, is over the resilience of our institutions in the face of illiberal pressure. They have confidence, I don't. I may be wrong, but safer to assume fragility than resilience.
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It's incredibly disturbing how many professional Republicans in 16 supported Trump only reluctantly and with reservations, then, after he confirmed those reservations and surpassed them with an attempted coup, just went all in for Trump in 24.
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It's a heartbreaking failure that the American right cannot deliver a candidate plausibly committed to the Constitution. It's worse that so many Republicans seem positively delighted by what they have offered, by what they've become.
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This is good. You can think it's phony, but it's good. We should want presidents to talk like this, even if they fall short. We forget, when we excuse the corrosive, divisive rhetoric of Trump as "just mean tweets", that a President is the Head of State and has a duty higher.
Kamala Harris: I will always listen to you even if you don't vote for me, I will always tell you the truth, even if it is difficult to hear. I will work every day to build consensus and reach compromise to get things done.
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The Founders fought a revolution against a King, many of their grievances were against his appointees, who were often unqualified, in power thanks to flattering the monarch, and who abused their office to violate our liberties. That's why we require Senate confirmation.
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Extremely depressing to see tweets from Americans (many calling themselves patriots, conservatives, constitutionalists) saying -- "hey, we got more than 50% of the vote, we should be able to do what we want." This is, of course, not just wrong, but deeply un-American.
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My God this is disgusting.
Tucker Carlson: .“I lived in a boys dorm in a New England boarding school in the 1980s with a lot of guys like Tim Walz. I saw that guy and I said, ‘You’re a creeper’… for sure…I definitely shouldn't suggest it without evidence. I don't have evidence. ”.
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A widely held view in Trump curious land is: He's vulgar, a bad guy, an authoritarian, and all that's bad. *But* he's a businessman who knows how to make government work. This is not true. Set aside values and policy, his admin, even his coup attempt, was half assed chaos.
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"Too many of my Republican brethren cast aspersions on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for coming hat-in-hand to Congress for help in defending his country. We should remember that Benjamin Franklin did it first, and we’re free. because of it.".
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I genuinely understand and even sympathize with the reluctant conservative 2016 Trump voter. Still, even, in 2020. But in 2024, after the attempted coup, with mounting incoherence and increased anti Americanism, I truly don't understand staying on board, much less with enthusiasm.
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This is such an amazing moment and I hope it stirs at least a few hearts. The fight for freedom matters. The cause of freedom needs support. Liberty is not inevitable.
Zelensky appears awestruck as a U.S. veteran in Normandy grasps and kisses his hand, calling him the "savior of the people." Zelensky replies: “No, no, you. You saved Europe."
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Good for him. Sincerely.
'REGRETFULLY DECLINED': The 18-year-old son of former President Trump cited "prior commitments."
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I was chairman of a Teenage Republican chapter at 15, ran local GOP campaigns, interned for Heritage, worked in a GOP Admin and for three GOP Senators, and served as a GOP poll watcher in Philly multiple cycles. Very, very long con, obviously.
@greggnunziata Fake. you were never a republican.
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This is true! But it reflects badly on the party, not on Liz.
Reminder:.Liz Cheney did not leave the Republican Party. We threw her out.
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Call me RINO all you want, I'm to the right of (former Democrat and Clinton supporter) Trump on virtually every policy position, from abortion to zoning. I just think upholding the Constitution comes first in the presidential job description.
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Fred Upton was a very effective Member and just a good guy. On more than one occasion, in my years as a Senate R staffer, Congressman Upton called me to thank me for my work on something or other. A dozen years as a staffer, no other Congressman ever did that. He did it more than.
Former GOP Congressman Fred Upton: “I’ve been a Michigan Republican all my life, and I’ve never once voted for a Democrat for president. But this year, I’m proud to say that I’ve already voted for Kamala Harris…”
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Lots of failures on the right, but the journey of Sen Mike Lee from principled, intellectual, constitutional conservative, to Trump sycophant, Putin apologist, and conspiracy theorist is the most catastrophic collapse in character and intellect this city has seen in decades.
It's hard to believe now, but Lee once had the reputation of a serious and committed constitutional conservative. Like so many other Republicans, his hunger for power turned him into a MAGA cultist and a Trump sycophant.
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We can debate American policy on Ukraine, but the contempt draft-dodging Trump and his fans have for a country heroically bleeding, dying, for its liberty is beyond disgusting.
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It's a galactic scandal that the bulk of the conservative legal movement is silent about, if not supportive of, the prospect of returning a constitutional arsonist to the oval office.
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Vance is a friend of Israel and functionally an enemy of Ukraine. Many Democrats are friends of Ukraine and enemies of Israel. This is incoherent and driven by factional politics. America should support the independence of both Israel and Ukraine.
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"How could a true conservative vote for Harris?" is a hard question. "How could a true conservative vote for Trump?" is a harder question.
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Conservatives need to understand -- it's not our party any longer. It may be the better of two options, but we owe the GOP nothing. This is as it was before 1980. Perhaps we'll win it back someday, but today is not the day.
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My statement on today's verdict:. America’s criminal justice system is a jewel of our Constitutional inheritance. The Founders thought deeply about both order and liberty, values reflected in the authority of the courts and the rights of the accused. In America, nobody—no matter.
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I assume normal people understand that JD Vance is a thoroughgoing fraud. But so is Trump. So, the ticket makes sense, on the theory of doubling down.
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Tump, who lost to Biden, says: "who the hell can't beat Biden.".
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Our party is now run by former Democrats with a 1980s era Democratic foreign and economic policy. This is a nightmare.
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An underappreciated upside of a Trump loss -- JD Vance is no longer the presumed future of the GOP.
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This is not particularly funny and gross, especially at a Catholic dinner, from a proud adulterer.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "There’s a group called “White Dudes for Harris”. but I’m not worried about them at all, because their wives and their wives’ lovers are all voting for me."
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In case anybody is still entertaining the idea, conservatives should oppose a Mike Lee nomination to the Supreme Court with twice the passion we opposed the Harriet Miers nomination.
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Trump tried to steal an election. As president, with clear forethought, planned to steal an election, to convince millions that our democracy was rigged. That's it. That's the disqualification. Someone campable of that is capable of even worse.
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People like to call me a "Never Trumper" as if that were an insult. I don't deserve the title. I did not vote for him, but I was open to him being better than he seemed and at times felt likely to vote for his re-elect. Never Trumpers, as it turns out, were right.
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Of the many amazing things about the president-elect, one always amazes me. He's only had one policy issue he truly cares about for 50 years -- tariffs. And he doesn't have the most elementary idea of how they work or how to make the case for them.
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If millions of American voters don't care about January 6th, that doesn't absolve Trump, it only indicts their poor citizenship and reveals a national crisis of basic civics.
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Trump saying opposing the CR is necessary and that "Anything else is a betrayal of our country" is itself a tremendous demonstration of his basic unfitness for the office he will soon again hold.
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I'm concerned about the bad things he did do, like try to steal an election and incite a mob to attack Congress.
The left wants you to suspend reality and believe that Trump will do bad things in the next 4 years that he didn’t do in his first 4 years while believing Harris will do good things in the next 4 years that she didn’t do in the past 4 years.
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Every partisan has to ask, what's too much for the party to ask? Barr has answered that there's no such line for him, to his eternal discredit.
Collins: Just to be clear, you're voting for someone who you believe tried to subvert the peaceful transfer of power, that can’t even achieve his own policies, that lied about the election, who is facing 88 criminal counts . Barr: The answer the question is yes.
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What's happening with Republicans on the Hill now is not organic, it's not an evolution in policy thinking. It's almost entirely a response to the whims of a twice impeached, multiple times indicted, failed casino mogul, former Democrat, and megalomaniac.
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24 hours into the second Trump administration he has said and done many things that should alarm conservatives and constitutionalists. So far, just silence and obedience. That's not the conservative movement I grew up in.
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Feeling this from @allahpundit ."My days of giving the right the benefit of the doubt about its good intentions are over. Watching a supposedly principled small-government movement like the Tea Party transform overnight into an authoritarian personality cult intoxicated with.
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Defending Europe against Russian invasion, supporting Taiwan against Chinese Communist threats, standing with Israel. If this is "capitulating to Democrats", we have a very different idea of what it is to be a Republican.
Today we saw far too many Republicans congratulating themselves for capitulating to Democrats and claiming it as a victory. And then blaming their capitulation on conservatives. Disgusting.
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The Court will reject this insane and dangerous argument. But it's not for the Court alone to defend the Constitution. This should be rejected by Republicans in Congress. It should be rejected by ordinary Americans who should shun anyone who would make such a claim.
A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNITY, WITHOUT WHICH IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM/HER TO PROPERLY FUNCTION. ANY MISTAKE, EVEN IF WELL INTENDED, WOULD BE MET WITH ALMOST CERTAIN INDICTMENT BY THE OPPOSING PARTY AT TERM END. EVEN EVENTS THAT “CROSS THE LINE”.
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Tucker Carlson is more indicative of where the GOP is than AOC is of where the Dems are. It's on us to condemn him.
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She's been on fire. Whatever happens, should she lose the nomination, she should under no circumstance endorse Trump.
Nikki Haley on Trump: “If you mock the service of a combat veteran, you don't deserve a driver's license, let alone being President of the United States.”. Never Trump.
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Judge Griffith is a tremendous patriot. I'm proud to have worked on his confirmation, which, it must be said, many Democrats fiercely opposed.
Retired federal judge Thomas Griffith, a conservative, co-authored a report looking into the 2020 election. He says Jan. 6 protestors were duped. “All the evidence points in one direction,” he says. “And that is that President Biden won, and President Trump lost.”
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Truly amazed that people could believe Trump is running for office to serve other people.
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It's time for a national conversation about Wickard v. Filburn.
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Every Republican who has endorsed Trump, ahead of New Hampshire, has told you they put their own careers ahead of the Constitution and country.
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Ben Sasse is a great American. In a better timeline he would have been president, or a very consequential senator. Prayers for him and his family.
Dear Gator Nation and cherished friends,. This isn’t an easy note to write but wanted to give you an update on our family. As many of you know, my wife Melissa suffered an aneurysm and series of strokes in 2007. Back then, the docs prepared us for the worst, but – in God’s.
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Just, for the record, this is an extraordinarily bad answer for someone who does and wishes to continue to hold an office under the Constitution of the United States. It impossible to overstate how shameful this is.
WELKER: Will you commit to accepting the 2024 election results?. TIM SCOTT: At the end of the day, the 47th president will be Donald Trump. WELKER: Wait -- yes or no, will you accept the results?. TIM SCOTT: That is my statement
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