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5:41Now PlayingA very panicked Donald Trump is now begging Republicans in Congress to "DO SOMETHING!!!" as he prepares to be indicted once again. Trump made the plea on Truth Social, and it has now been reported that he's not just begging on social media - He's also making phone calls to House Republicans like Kevin McCarthy and Elise Stefanik. There is little that these people can do to help him now, as Farron Cousins explains.
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Donald Trump on Tuesday, as everybody knows at this point, announced to the world that he had received a target letter from Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, which is an indication that indictments are effectively imminent at this point. But he received the letter on Sunday, didn't announce it to the world till Tuesday. So he kinda stewed on it for a couple of days, trying to figure out how to announce it to the world. And of course, he announced it on truth social and is a big hullabaloo. But later on, Trump actually started freaking out and he got on truth social and begged Republicans in Congress to do something. He said, in all caps, do something. Here's the full post. The Republican party must fight fire with fire. And right now, or it will be extinguished, the Republican party must get tough. Now, this is the strong sentiment that's flowing through the veins of Patriots. Do something.
What what can, what can they do? I mean, unless they have developed time machines and can actually go back in time and stop you from trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, there, there's not much they can do. Okay? I, I know you're begging your buddies. I know Matt Gaetz says that I'm gonna defund Jack Smith. Okay? But you're not. I know Jim Jordan says, we're gonna, we're gonna look at the D O J, okay? But you've been looking at the G D O J for seven months and haven't found anything. So what are you gonna do? Trump doesn't know, Republicans don't know, but they're all looking at each other like, well, somebody's gotta do something. It it, it really is just the dumbest party in the world, folks, I, I cannot, cannot stress that enough. And I don't say that lightly. It's not just me insulting them every day.
When I say that these are genuinely stupid people. I mean, genuinely, painfully not intelligent human beings. And they're all panicked because if Trump goes down, everyone associated with him, everyone that has hinged their entire career on Trump goes down too. Not necessarily in the legal sense, but their parachute, their protector, their savior is gone If Trump goes down. And that's why we see people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, and Jim Jordan and Elise Stef freaking out about this. They have modeled their careers based on their love and support of Donald Trump. If he goes away, they got nothing left. There's nobody to back them up. There's nobody for them to say, Hey, well, you may not wanna listen to me, but I got the big guy in my corner. So what are you gonna do when he comes after you? Yeah, you better listen to me. They lose that. That's what they're afraid of. They
Couldn't care less if Donald Trump actually got in trouble. They're not worried about him as a person. They have no real personal feelings towards him, right? I, I honestly don't think many of these people are even capable of loving someone or caring about another human being. They're worried about what it means for themselves. Same thing with Donald Trump. That's what he is worried about. That's why he's telling these people do something. But here's the other part of it. Donald Trump and his Republican allies in the house are all ranting and raving like lunatics out there causing a big stink about all this, you know, target letter and whatnot. But you know, who's not talking about it? Most of the Republicans in the United States Senate that tells you everything you need to know. See, Republicans actually, the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the fundraising arm of the Republican Party came out a couple, maybe about a month or and a half ago, and he said, if Republicans don't take back the Senate in 2024, we will not have another chance to take back the Senate until the next decade, till 2030.
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