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Post by Admin on Jun 5, 2022 17:47:45 GMT
Voting to impeach former President Donald Trump was the “conservative” thing to do, Rep. Tom Rice said Sunday, even though it might cost him dearly in South Carolina’s 2022 Republican primary.
“Defending the Constitution is a bedrock of the Republican platform, defend the Constitution, and that’s what I did. That was the conservative vote,” Rice (R-S.C.) said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” adding: “There’s no question in my mind.”
Trump was impeached in 2021 in response to his actions, and inactions, related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Rice said he was appalled to see Trump not lift a finger in response to the attacks on the Capitol and its police officers, as well as the threats to Vice President Mike Pence.
“It was clear to me what I had to. I was livid. I am livid today about it. I took an oath to protect the Constitution,” said Rice, who was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. “I did it then, and I would do it again tomorrow.”
Rice is facing multiple primary challengers in South Carolina’s 7th District on June 14. Among them is State Rep. Russell Fry, whom Trump has endorsed and whose campaign website is dominated by an attack on Rice for his impeachment vote.
“And now Tom Rice looks like a total fool,” Trump said in a campaign appearance in South Carolina.
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Post by Admin on Jun 14, 2022 19:07:56 GMT
GOP Rep. Rice: ‘Donald Trump Is Not The Future Of The Republican Party” 1,228 views Jun 15, 2022 Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) defends his vote to impeach former President Trump, telling NBC News correspondent Vaughn Hillyard that he doesn’t want Trump to “rip [the Constitution] to shreds.”
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Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2022 5:07:06 GMT
WATCH: Kinzinger says Trump’s troop withdrawal order is ‘key evidence’ he knew he lost election 185,427 views Oct 14, 2022 Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., spoke on Oct. 13 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. Kinzinger, one of two Republican members on the Jan. 6 panel, said that interviews with former Trump administration officials showed that Trump admitted privately that he knew he had lost. Kinzinger said that “key evidence” of this was Trump’s directive to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Somalia before he left office in November. “[Trump] disregarded concerns about the consequences for fragile governments on the front lines of the fight against ISIS and Al Qaeda terrorists,” Kinzinger said. “Knowing he was leaving office, he acted immediately and signed this order on Nov. 11, which would have required the immediate withdrawal of troops from Somalia and Afghanistan, all to be completed before the Biden inauguration on Jan. 20.”
Kinzinger said Trump was acknowledging privately that he had lost the election, while he heard from close advisers that there was no evidence of fraud to change the election’s outcome. Kinzinger added Trump “made the deliberate choice” to ignore an array of people and institutions from the courts, and the Department of Justice to campaign leaders and senior advisers to overturn the election.
“His intent was plain: Ignore the rule of law and stay in power,” he added. The committee returned to its public-facing work after nearly three months, having rescheduled the current hearing two weeks ago in light of Hurricane Ian.
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Post by Admin on Oct 24, 2022 7:19:25 GMT
Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said on Sunday that he considers former President Trump “dangerous” and a threat to both democracy and the presidency.
Woodward is promoting a forthcoming audiobook titled “The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump,” which includes the full audio of his 20 one-on-one interviews with the former president.
“Trump was the wrong man for the job,” Woodward said during an appearance on “CBS Sunday Morning” with John Dickerson. “I realize now, two years later, all of the Jan. 6 insurrection, leads me to the conclusion that he’s not just the wrong man for the job, but he’s dangerous, and he is a threat to democracy, and he’s a threat to the presidency because he doesn’t understand the core obligations that come with that office.”
In an op-ed for The Washington Post published Sunday, Woodward wrote that Trump continues to pose a threat to U.S. democracy.
“‘The Trump Tapes’ leaves no doubt that after four years in the presidency, Trump has learned where the levers of power are, and full control means installing absolute loyalists in key Cabinet and White House posts” he wrote.
“The record now shows that Trump has led — and continues to lead — a seditious conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, which in effect is an effort to destroy democracy,” he added.
“Trump reminds how easy it is to break things you do not understand — democracy and the presidency,” he wrote.
Woodward’s new book, distributed by Simon & Schuster, is slated for release on Oct. 25.
Woodward also told Dickerson that he regrets not asking Trump more questions about his refusal to leave the White House, as Trump declined to comment to Woodward on the issue ahead of the 2020 election.
“It’s the only time he had no comment,” Woodward told Dickerson. “And this, of course, was months before his loss. And I kind of slapped myself a little bit: Why didn’t I follow up on that a little bit more?”
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Post by Admin on Nov 16, 2023 23:59:50 GMT
A Michigan judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that tried to use the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban” to remove Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot.
The judge separately ruled that Michigan’s secretary of state doesn’t have the power under state law to determine the former president’s eligibility for office based on the 14th Amendment, which says anyone who took an oath to uphold the US Constitution is banned from office if they “engaged in insurrection.” #trumpnews #ballotbanhearing #usnews #news18live n18oc_world
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