From (unfortunately) the New York effing Times, describing the angry reaction of Republican Senators to the lawless Malignant Fascist's corrupt Attorney General corrupt personal lawyer Todd "My Roy Cohn" Blanche trying to sell the $1.8 billion Trump Thug Payment Slush Fund to the Senators, some of whom are facing reelection:
"...what unfolded in an ornate room just off the Senate floor on Thursday morning was a two-hour blowup in which dozens of Republican senators vented their anger and concern about the president’s fund at Mr. Blanche.
They questioned its legal basis, whom it would pay and how the process would work. And they made it clear they wanted no part of the plan, the product of a deal struck between Mr. Trump’s lawyers and his own administration to use money that Congress does not control to pay off purported victims of government mistreatment, potentially including some of the rioters who violently assaulted their workplace during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
By the end, Republicans were so livid that party leaders scrapped planned votes on the party’s top priority — a $72 billion immigration crackdown measure it had planned to muscle through before Memorial Day — punting action for fear of having to cast votes on the fund." (our emphasis)
At least, for a few days, they delayed the odious funding for the ICE / Border Patrol goons, who are shaping up to be his multi-purpose "enforcers" for future use. They'll return thinking that the furor over the Trump Thug Payment Slush Fund has died down, when much to their surprise it will erupt again.
(photo: Trump's thugs battle police / John Minchillo, AP)
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