Donald Trump’s anger: a big problem among Republicans

Of: Johan edgar

Published: January 15, 2021 at 00.45

Donald Trump is furious with Republican leaders in Congress.

And the vote on national law has triggered a minor civil war in the party.

The president’s warriors are fighting to crush the leader’s rebellion.

“We have allowed the Qanon conspiracy theorists to guide us,” Nancy Mace told Politico.

The mood seems bleak in the White House, to say the least, after the collapse that led to the assault on Capitol Hill last week, and the Supreme Court decision on Wednesday.

The president is said to be more isolated than ever this week, according to the New York Times. There are not many employees on site and those who have gone to work try to avoid the Oval Room.

While federal authorities continue to arrest Trump supporters who went berserk in the Congress building, the president is angry at the party’s leadership that no longer supports him.

He has told staff that he is furious with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who welcomes the trial and has not ruled out that he will vote for the verdict, the New York Times reports. The president appears to have been stabbed in the back by the influential senator who can decide his fate in the Supreme Court.

But Donald Trump should be even angrier at House minority leader Kevin McCarthy. The former ally who yelled at the president to try to change the election outcome has refused to defend his actions in connection with the attack on Capitol Hill.

He’s also angry at his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, a leading bat in the fight against alleged voter fraud, for his juicy bills. Now employees are said to be blocking their conversations with the president, the New York Times reports.

Made contact with Bannon

According to Bloomberg, the president, after angering so many around him, has resumed contact with former adviser Steve Bannon in recent weeks to discuss strategy. They must have spoken on the phone about the fight against the elections on several occasions.

Staff are also said to have a difficult time getting Trump to focus on his final days in the White House. According to the newspaper, they should try to get him to approve a plan on how the days will be used.

Thoughts still seem to be on the election result.

During his last business trip aboard Air Force One to Texas on Tuesday, he repeatedly told people traveling with him, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, that he had won the election.

Some advisers are said to have discussed the possibility of Donald Trump resigning a few days early, in part so that he could help him avoid being ousted in the Senate so that he can run again in 2024, writes the New York Times.

But the president is said to have dismissed the arguments, saying Richard Nixon didn’t get much out of the premature resignation after the Watergate scandal before a pending Supreme Court. He believes that Nixon’s influence over the party ended like this.

According to previous reports, Donald Trump has decided to leave Washington permanently on January 19. He has already announced that he will not participate when Joe Biden is sworn in the next day.

I wanted to be part of the Supreme Court debate

However, the advisers managed to prevent him from participating in the House of Representatives debate before the Supreme Court vote. He wanted to be in the Chamber and defend himself against accusations of inciting the mob that broke into the building.

However, Trump is said to have been glad that party line dropouts during the vote were less than the staff dared to expect. It was estimated that up to 20 Republican members would vote for the Democrats. In the end, it was ten pieces.

But that was enough to start an avalanche within the match.

Many of the president’s supporters are furious at Liz Cheney, third in the leadership, who voted for the Supreme Court after a hard barrage against Trump’s actions during the riots.

Some members have started submitting a list of names to force an additional meeting to remove her from the leadership position, writes Politico. In November, she was appointed in unison to the site.

– She shouldn’t lead this group. That’s it, member Andy Biggs tells Politico.

The people most active in stopping her are the same members who have been most active in the fight to help Donald Trump attack the election result.

According to the appeal, Cheney’s statements “are not in line with the Republican majority in the House of Representatives and have sparked discord and discord in the group.”

However, Liz Cheney makes it clear that she will not voluntarily resign.

– I do not go anywhere. It was a voice of conscience, he tells Politico.

– We have different points of view in the group. But our country faces a constitutional crisis unprecedented since the civil war.

Big dispute within the leadership layer

In addition to attempts to overthrow her from the right flank, Liz Cheney’s attack on the president also puts her in opposition to the rest of the party leadership in the House of Representatives. Both Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise supported Trump in his attempts to block the outcome of the election and voted against the Supreme Court.

Some in the party group support Cheney’s side.

– We must not silence voices that think differently. One of the reasons we’re where we are today is that we let Qanon’s conspiracy theories guide us, member Nancy Mace, who voted against the Supreme Court, tells Politico.

Others are angry with both parties in conflict.

– I think when Kevin and Steve support an attempt to challenge the election result against the constitution and Liz supports a constitutionally dubious Supreme Court, then we have leadership issues, says member Ken Buck.

Internal conflicts also affect Republicans in the Senate. The criticism has been harsh against Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, who even after the attack on the Capitol protested against the election result during the control bill in Congress.

At the same time, Mitch McConnell must view the Supreme Court process as a way to stop Trump’s influence over the party once and for all. On Thursday night, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski released a statement saying that she believes the House of Representatives acted appropriately in voting for the Supreme Court.

“I will listen carefully and consider the arguments of both parties and then announce how I will vote,” he writes.

It will take at least 17 Republican senators to topple Trump on the Supreme Court.

Published: January 15, 2021 at 00.45

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