Trump-hating journalist turned commentator, Carl Bernstein, revealed the Republican senators he says have privately complained about President Trump.
The Watergate writer released a list that included 21 names in a trio of tweets on Sunday, one week after he appeared on CNN and called on journalists to consider unmasking the “dirty secret” of the upper chamber as Trump refuses to concede the election to President-elect Joe Biden that he claims were “rigged” and declines to unlock transition resources for the Democrat’s incoming administration.”
“I’m not violating any pledge of journalistic confidentially [sic] in reporting this: 21 Republican Sens–in convos w/ colleagues, staff members, lobbyists, W. House aides–have repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for Trump & his fitness to be POTUS,” he said, nearly three weeks after Election Day.
“The 21 GOP Senators who have privately expressed their disdain for Trump,” he said, are: Ohio’s Rob Portman, Tennessee’s Lamar Alexander, Nebraska’s Ben Sasse, Missouri’s Roy Blunt, Maine’s Susan Collins, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, Texas’s John Cornyn, South Dakota’s John Thune, Utah’s Mitt Romney, Indiana’s Mike Braun, Indiana’s Todd Young, South Carolina’s Tim Scott, Florida’s Rick Scott, Florida’s Marco Rubio, Iowa’s Chuck Grassley, North Carolina’s Richard Burr, Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey, Arizona’s Martha McSally, Kansas’s Jerry Moran, Kansas’s Pat Roberts, and Alabama’s Richard Shelby.
Biden’s concessions to the Left on the platform not carrying over into personnel.
“With few exceptions, their craven public silence has helped enable Trump’s most grievous conduct—including undermining and discrediting the US the electoral system,” Bernstein concluded.’
I’m not violating any pledge of journalistic confidentially in reporting this: 21 Republican Sens–in convos w/ colleagues, staff members, lobbyists, W. House aides–have repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for Trump & his fitness to be POTUS. (1/3)
— Carl Bernstein (@carlbernstein) November 23, 2020
With few exceptions, their craven public silence has helped enable Trump’s most grievous conduct—including undermining and discrediting the US the electoral system.
More from my appearance earlier on @cnn: https://t.co/c1jZXMR0Pv (3/3)
— Carl Bernstein (@carlbernstein) November 23, 2020
The ONLY one on this list which I didn’t either know or strongly suspected is Rick Scott of Florida. All the rest, AND MORE WHO SHOULD be added, ALL The Old Republican Guard miscreants.
WHY the fight to take our country back has been FAR MORE of a struggle than it ever should have been. The traitors in our midst cause us to do battle with the Wholly CORRUPT DISGUSTING Democrats AND Republican Great Betrayors.
These Republican Rat Bastards better take stock because the GOP DOES NOT ANY LONGER BELONG TO THEM. It never really has. We have just been required to hold our nose and vote for lesser of evils. But at the end of the day, EVIL IS JUST THAT, EVIL.
Republcan voters BELONG TO TRUMP, PERIOD. We have been waiting for DECADES to have just ONE GOOD MAN step up and speak for We The People.
Those who rode Donald Trump’s coattails into office during the 2020 RED WAIVE … AMERICA, WE MUST step up and HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. The minute they step out of line, WE NEED TO BEAT THE HELL out of them. And for God’s Sake, EVERY ONE of these miscreants MUST be primaried … NOT by those anointed by the Republican Guard but by ROCK SOLID AMERICAN PATRIOTS.
America, WE MUST START, RIGHT NOW a combined effort to PURGE THE GOP OF EVERY DS, GREAT BETRAYER.
Dems want to make lists? Lets make one of our own… a list of Great Betrayers of the GOP. We must collectively PLEGE to PURGE EVERY ONE of these traitors from office.
I sure didn’t need Bernstein to tell me this. I would have added Mike Lee to that list. All one has to examine certain policies of the President compared to those in Congress. The President is interfering with the money train and that is Unforgivable. What surprises me is how “little” it takes to buy off a member of Congress. I never forget the line in “Tucker: A man and his dream”; where Tucker says, “That’s something you don’t see, a politician with his hands in his OWN pocket”.
These Republicans who are actually riding on Trump’s coattails are looking after the interests of the government, not the people whom the government is there to serve. Trump has been overturning the rocks the elitist Republicans and Democrats are hiding under and they don’t like that.
This means nothing to us. We were aware of the corrupt RINO senate Mitch created. This adds no creedence to any criticism of Trump.