Trump Tells Republicans To Obstruct His Prosecutions Or Shut Down The Government

Donald Trump took to Truth Social to make his demands for House Republicans as the shutdown deadline looms. Trump told Republicans that this is their last chance to strip the funding from special prosecutor Jack Smith because they failed to do so with the debt limit negotiations. He wants them to shut down the federal government if they don't get their way, and there are plenty of Republicans in Congress willing to do exactly that. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Donald Trump took to truth social this week to lay out his demands for Republicans in the House of Representatives with regard to the ongoing will they or won't they, with the appropriations bills that have to be passed by the end of the month or else we hit a government shutdown. And Donald Trump made it clear that Republicans only have two options. One, you defund all of the prosecutions against him. Or if you are unable to do that, you just gotta shut the whole government down, right? Just turn it off, we're done. No more government for the United States if Trump is allowed to be prosecuted. Here's what he said. On truth social, a very important deadline is approaching at the end of the month, Republicans in Congress can and must defund all aspects of crooked Joe Biden's, weaponized government that refuses to close the border and treats Hef the country as enemies of the state.

This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other patriots. They failed on the debt limit, but they must not fail now. Use the power of the purse and defend the country by sending a spiraling into a government shutdown that is, uh, projected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity per day. Hundreds of millions of dollars in lost economic activity per day of a government shutdown is what is currently being projected by economists. But here's the thing, Trump is of course making his list of terroristic demands to his Republican allies in the house. Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to this on social media, and she said, that's why I put forth legislation to do just that and defund these prosecutors. Look at me. I'm, I'm doing your bidding. I'm so wonderful. love me. Um, yeah, not gonna work because as much as Donald Trump wants to think, he has power over those people in the house, he technically has none.

He has no power whatsoever. The only thing that Donald Trump can do is just say, mean things about you. If you him off like that, that's not actual power. I can do that. You watching this? You can do that. So Trump right now has about as much actual power over the Republican party as I do, and that is none. But this is what he wants. He wants to be allowed to get away with all of the things he has accused of 91 felony charges. And if he can't get away with those things, then we just have to shut the government down and send the entire economy spiraling down the toilet. That's what they want. And I say they, because it's not just Trump. It is Marjorie Taylor Greene. Matt Gaetz is on board with a shutdown. Jim Jordan said in an interview with Charlie Kirk last week that, yeah, defunding Jack Smith is definitely a red line for us. They will do anything,

The so-called party of law and order to make sure that law and order is not in fact delivered to their cult leader, because that is what we're dealing with today. Millions of people will suffer under a government shutdown, and Republicans seem perfectly fine with that if it means that Donald Trump doesn't have to go and face a jury of his peers. Here's the other part of this, guys. If Donald Trump were in fact innocent of these charges against him, he'd have no problem going into court, right? I mean, you all maintain his innocence. So why not let the process play out? Why not make the prosecutors look like fools when they go in there and lose in court to Donald Trump and he walks away triumphantly? I mean, to me, that actually seems like a better thing for Donald Trump than just shutting the government down if you don't get your way, you know, if he gets exonerated than you guys win, right?

But y'all won't even let us get to that because you know what? We know and Trump knows what we know, what you know. And that is that there is no way in hell he's getting away with all 91 of these charges against him. He may get popped for a couple, he may get popped for all of them.