Trump orchestrates final loyalty test in dying bid to subvert election

[sabra]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump is plotting a final stand in Congress on Jan. 6, casting it as the ultimate loyalty test in his quest to remain in power and shutting out anyone who won’t get in line.

Trump has been strategizing in recent days with a band of his fiercest congressional supporters about the effort, which will involve lodging objections during the typically pro forma congressional certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

It’s a gambit that even Republican leaders and those around Trump concede is doomed to fail, given the makeup of Congress. But that’s not the only point, according to GOP lawmakers, Trump advisers and Republican operatives.

The objections will also force Republicans in Congress to go on record voting to affirm Biden’s victory — acknowledging the outcome and likely inflaming Trump’s diehard supporters, a crucial GOP faction that has joined the president in denying the election results. Republican strategists and Trump allies inside and outside Washington said Trump’s core supporters will remember how their lawmakers vote on Jan. 6.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/22/trump-final-loyalty-test-election-450183

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. Trump has always valued loyalty over competence

[olddad65]

16. Like any typical mob boss

[Xipe Totec]

17. The loyalty of the incompetent is what he values most of all. nt

[Laelth]

2. Yikes! That's a party-splitting move.

Gee. Where’s my popcorn?



-Laelth

[Kablooie]

4. I don't know. I think all Republicans may vote for him no matter what they say now.

And then normalize it so their voters forget that's it's a vote against American Democracy.

[Orangepeel]

8. most of them will be able to rationalize it

just like they've been doing for four years

[marie999]

3. I would like to see half of Republicans vote for him and half to vote against him.

This might split the party into 2 parties.

[Grokenstein]

5. Funny thing about loyalty...

Losers don't have it.

[Cha]

6. Let the Internecine Wars Begin!

thanks trump.. you Stupid POS.

[soothsayer]

7. Big season finale of his reality show?

Or penultimate?

[Enterstageleft]

9. Damned if you do, damned if you don't...

what a wonderful time to be a rePug politician.

[Martin Eden]

22. They richly deserve to be damned

With four years of actively enabling this lying fascist thug they almost caused the downfall of American democracy.

Is it too much to hope that Trump is the cause for the downfall of the Republican Party?

[oldsoftie]

10. Jeeze this is sounding more & more like Jim Jones.

[hadEnuf]

11. If Republicans knew what was good for them they would put a fork into this fascist monster.

The few decent (?) Republicans left need to take a stand. Loyalty to Trump and his fascist minions will ultimately ruin them. The extremist RW nutcases have finally found someone to rally around and it is Trump. And anything to do with Trump will eventually need to be destroyed. Just like his casino.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Yes, the overweaned pork bellies driving SUVs flying Trump flags are an important constituency

Their destination is COVID, congestive heart failure, and senile dementia - so there is hope for the country!

[Raster]

23. +10

[Ford_Prefect]

13. You have to ask yourself if they will remember so well once the trials begin?

Once the corruption is laid bare in court and Congress. Will they be so enthusiastic when the scale of the GOP graft and its effect on their lives is shown in color and on camera?

[Greg K]

14. If Republicans had won the House, he might have been able to pull this off. Scary to think about.

[badboy67]

15. Wanna pardon ???

NOW SERVING NUMBER:

10,666

[Skittles]

21. pardon me?

fuck those crooks

[More_Cowbell]

18. The Senate could save itself

By making the House vote first, and since there needs to be a majority in both bodies, failure in the House would mean no vote in the Senate, wouldn't it? I can't find anything setting out who votes first.

[ancianita]

19. It's a joint session located in the House, where votes are taken all together.

You just laid out reasons why they don't vote in sequence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_session_of_the_United_States_Congress#Counting_electoral_votes

[More_Cowbell]

20. The electoral votes are counted together, but

If there are objections from the House and Senate, there are "separate debates and votes . . . in each chamber." I haven't found whether they happen, and the results are announced, simultaneously.

Although future Senator Tommy said he'd object, I won't be surprised if Mitch manages to keep any senators from objecting, which would end things without a vote.

[ancianita]

24. You left out "votes on the objection." That's it. Then...

"... If there are no objections or all objections are overruled, the presiding officer declares the result of the vote and states who is elected president and vice president. The senators then depart from the House Chamber."

So they reconvene in the House -- after all objections get debated/voted on in separate chambers -- and the final electoral vote is done.

[Baclava]

25. More than loyalty, its a fealty test, he wants them to fall on their swords, he wants their blood

[dustyscamp]

26. Dirtbag

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