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Whispers Some Republicans May Turn on President Trump! Only 19 Senators Are a “Firm No” Against Impeachment!

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By Michael Synder / Economic Collapse Blog

It has been widely assumed that the Democrats could never possibly get the votes that they need to remove Donald Trump from office in the U.S. Senate, and so therefore the outcome of this entire saga is already a foregone conclusion.  But what if that is not true?  In this article, you will see that only 19 members of the Senate are a “firm no” when it comes to impeachment, and 35 members have already publicly committed to convicting Trump.  In the end, it is going to take 67 votes to remove Trump from office, and Democrats only control 47 seats.  It was always going to be a monumental task to try to find 20 Republican members of the Senate willing to betray Trump, and it still doesn’t seem likely that we will get anywhere near that number.  But there are whispers that at least some Republicans are currently very much up in the air regarding how they will vote.

On Friday, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy appeared on the “Morning Joe” program, and what he had to say is really shaking a lot of people up

Up until now, most of us had assumed that Republicans in the Senate would unanimously stand behind Trump.

But according to Murphy, cracks are starting to form.

It is certainly possible that Murphy could be lying, but what purpose would he have for lying about these private conversations?


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Of course we definitely are not talking about a long list of potential turncoats.  In fact, he openly admitted that only a handful of Republicans are thinking this way

This is not a major crisis for the Trump White House yet, but it definitely has got to be alarming for any cracks to be forming at all at this stage.

So who specifically are we talking about here?

Well, it has been suggested that Susan CollinsMitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski are all potential candidates to turn on Trump.  In particular, Collins and Murkowski are essentially Democrats for all practical purposes, and so it wouldn’t be too much of a surprise if either one of them turned on Trump.  In fact, they both have voted against Trump in a number of high profile votes in recent years.

For Romney, this could be an opportunity for sweet revenge.  Trump and Romney have exchanged insults for years, and Romney has already publicly referred to Trump’s dealings with Ukrainian officials as “troubling in the extreme”

Needless to say, President Trump is deeply concerned about what could potentially happen in the weeks ahead, and he has been working very hard to court the support of his fellow Republicans in Congress

But despite all of that effort, the outcome of the upcoming Senate trial is still surprisingly up in the air.  Just check out the following numbers from Politico

So why aren’t more Republicans in the Senate a “firm no”?

In fact, why aren’t virtually all of the Republicans in the Senate a “firm no”?

Something stinks about all of this.  In Washington, far more goes on behind the scenes that most of us would dare to imagine.  And a tremendous amount of pressure can be brought to bear on our representatives when very powerful people want them to vote a certain way.

I still think that it is extremely unlikely that pro-impeachment forces will get the 67 votes that they need in the Senate to remove Trump from office.  And if it doesn’t look like there will be 67 votes, some Republicans that would be inclined to betray Trump may chicken out and decide that it isn’t worth the risk if the effort is not going to be successful.

But we definitely live in unprecedented times, and anything could still happen in the weeks ahead.

Top Democrats have indicated that they would like to have the full House vote on impeachment some time around Christmas, and so it looks like we could actually see the Senate trial happen in January

Needless to say, the mainstream media is going to be relentlessly covering these proceedings, and the whole world will be watching.

But the most fascinating action will actually be going on behind the scenes.

Pro-impeachment forces will be working night and day to try to get the 67 votes that they need, and if the potential vote count starts to creep close to that number, that is when things are going to start getting really interesting.


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    • raburgeson

      We’re making a list and checking it twice. Heads are going to roll. The Constitution has not been observed even for the POTUS. The rule of law will be returned to this Republic.

      • Rockledge

        Who is “we’re”?
        Most voting republicans are uneducated and believe whatever talk radio says.
        They like one liners and will vote for whoever they are told to by talk radio exploiters.
        They aren’t keeping lists, and keep on voting for the same neocon big brother lifers who have no intention of serving the public.

        And most of all, they buy into this charade that both parties are bitter mutual enemies.
        Both parties serve the corporate monolith and therefore big brother, both parties have nothing but contempt for the herd , and both parties are either pretending to, or in reality do, despise Trump. Depending on whether he is just another neocon following a script or if he really is a rebel who has departed from the herd .
        Which, it is difficult to know which is so.

    • Rockledge

      Get real. It is quite obvious that both halves of the republocrat party recognize Trump as an outsider and want his ass GONE.
      The republicans in congres have as much contempt for him as the hedonist dems, they are all big brother lackeys.
      How short the herds memory is, when Trump first took office the republicans in the house and senate treated him like
      a party crasher.
      The only reason they began putting on the facade that they support him is because they knew if they did not they would not get elected again.
      First chance they get to get rid of him, they will.
      And they know that the stupid herd will turn right around and vote for their evil asses once again.

      Because americans are fucking stupid, and both parties know it.

      • b4

        yup i agree,you are really really stupid

        • Rockledge

          AND most of the herd are capable of little more input than one liners.

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