Current Events > Romney: Most Repubs wanted to impeach Trump but feared violence from Trumpers.

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https://www.mediaite.com/politics/mitt-romney-reveals-most-republicans-didnt-impeach-trump-because-they-feared-violent-attacks-from-his-supporters/

Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) revealed to biographer McKay Coppins that the threat of physical violence effectively kept many elected Republicans from voting to impeach or convict President Donald Trump, even though they wanted to.

Coppins is doing the media rounds to promote his new biography Reckoning and chatted with Brian Stelter for a thoughtful interview, which Vanity Fair published on Thursday.

NYU Journalism professor Jay Rosen flagged one particular passage on social media, writing: Read this paragraph and tell me that the 2024 election can be responsibly reported using the same tools and terms in use for every national election.

The passage in question reveals that many Republican members of Congress wanted to vote to impeach or convict the former president but that the threat of political violence by Trump supporters effectively kept them from doing what they thought was right. Stelter writes:

One of the biggest revelations to me in my conversations with Romney was just how important the threat of political violence was to the psychology of elected Republicans today, said Coppins, who recalled Romney telling him story after story about Republican members of Congress, Republican senators, who at various points wanted to vote for impeachmentvote to convict Trump or vote to impeach Trumpand decided not to, not because they thought he was innocent, but because they were afraid for their familys safety. They were afraid of what Trump supporters might do to them or to their families. That raises a really uncomfortable question, Coppins said, which is how long can the American project last if elected officials from one of the major parties are making their political decisions based on fear of physical violence from their constituents?

Rosens question is extremely pertinent as we are closing in on being a year away from the 2024 general election, and the former president continues to ratchet up his dangerous rousing of rabble that creates the threat of violence that has been so effective for feckless members of Congress.

If Trump loses in 2024 (as he very well should), I fear how his base will take the news.

Solar_Crimson posted...

If Trump loses in 2024 (as he very well should), I fear how his base will take the news.

They're going to storm something else and actually kill more people this time. They're not smart people and anything short of a landslide victory they'll revolt.

The voting with Jordan also outlines how craven their party as a whole is.

Behind closed doors Jordan had way less votes of support than when they had to do it publicly.

Imagine being on the border of a civil war over a fucking idiot like Trump.

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This, Republicans aren't victims, they created this monster and now the monster has taken their carefully brainwashed base and turned it into his own cult

This is the future Republicans choose.

And yet look who they made speaker. That's BS.

Cowards. If they stood up as a group the base wouldve moved on.

Who could have possibly see that coming, possibly even years and years in advance. Gosh, you'd have to be some kind of super-intellect to have seen this coming, what an absolute shame there was no one able to warn anyone of such an inevit- I mean, unprecedented, turn of events.

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This. Nearly every Democrat voted to impeach Trump. You know how much a lot Trumpers hate Democrats.

Fear of violence may have had some effect, but Republicans mostly didn't vote to impeach because of fear of losing their position.

Cemith posted...

They're going to storm something else and actually kill more people this time. They're not smart people and anything short of a landslide victory they'll revolt.

They can fuck around and find out then. Same as their version of Horst Wessel did last time.

These are the same people who push the 2nd amendment at all costs, and then are fucking terrified of violence from the people they rile up. Unbelievable

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It's this. They don't want to lose their positions and power and money.

Idk, this narrative feels a little self-serving, especially when you consider what Romney's political goals are. Is the Republican Party really full of elected officials who were ready to impeach Trump if only there weren't threats to their family's safety? Or are they what their public actions reflect?

I simply don't believe this.

you mean "hoped for" not "feared"

I mean I still think a lot of it is political fear. If it was personal safety youd think Democrats would have the same concerns.

Robot2600 posted...

you mean "hoped for" not "feared"

It's both.

They hoped for violence against Democrats.

When Trumpers started turning on then, then it became fear.

Every mad scientist loves the monster they created, until they lose control of said monster.

Really says something about the caliber of the Republican party that all of their elected officials are spineless cowards. Thanks Mitt.

binders full of cowards

Solar_Crimson posted...

If Trump loses in 2024 (as he very well should), I fear how his base will take the news.

Mike Johnson will just make sure Trump wins even if he loses

Fucking cowards. They fear violence and that shit happened anyway. They shoulda just did it.

"well awwww shucks I guess we have to accept this coup attempt, you guys got us, aw dang"

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nothing new there with republicans

What hypocrisy. They're "afraid" of getting hurt, when they were all too eager to succumb to covid.

I'm extremely skeptical of this. Sounds like damage control to try and walk back the party's position now that Trumpism is becoming unpopular with moderates.

Maybe he's telling the truth, but nothing about the Republican party's behavior indicates they wouldn't have voted in lock step to not impeach even without the threat of violence.

Who cares? They don't even have real goals or plans. A bunch of unorganized clowns with no real beliefs.

remember in 2012 when romney was welcoming trump onstage for his endorsement when donny was one of the faces of the birther/tea party movement

Delirious_Beard posted...

remember in 2012 when romney was welcoming trump onstage for his endorsement when donny was one of the faces of the birther/tea party movement

Remember that pic of Romney begging Trump for a job that had Trump looking evil as fuck, Fuck "Corporations are people my friend" Ronmey dude is just like Liz Cheney in being absolutely fine with their parties hyper partisian madness but not fine with the endgame of it being loyalty to only Trump, they want some of that power for themselves

Everyone sane fears their unbalanced lone wolves.

Republicans have no one to blame for this shit getting out of hand but themselves. They won't learn from this at all, and we can fully expect something like this to happen again.

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