Republican Senator Warns Trump They Won’t Tolerate Any More Mistakes

Republicans have made it clear that they’ve had enough of the amateur hour that Donald Trump has been hosting in DC, and they are telling him that they will not tolerate any more mistakes (like the Signal leak that was revealed this week.) But the real problem is that some mistakes are not forgivable, and Republicans should have called a timeout with Trump weeks ago due to the massive number of mistakes that he’s made. This week’s screw up won’t be the last, and Republicans will continue to do nothing. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

So the White House is doing everything possible to, you know, put a positive spin on the signal leak that happened earlier this week. You know, Carolyn Levitt's been out there telling us like, eh, it was no big deal. There were no war plans or classified information. Y'all are, y'all are making too much of this. And of course, you have had other members of the administration, including Mike Waltz, who added Jeffrey Goldberg to that text change, uh, come out and actually suggest that somehow Goldberg put himself in there by disguising his name in Waltz's phone. Yes, that is something Waltz suggested during an interview with Laura Ingram this week after the news broke. So they're just throwing everything at the wall, seeing what sticks in terms of the pr, uh, crisis management. But Republicans in the House and Senate aren't buying it. They know this is a big snafu.

They know this is a massive national security problem, and they know that this shows that this administration is nothing but incompetent. And so, during an interview, I believe on CNN, this week, Republican Senator Kevin Kramer had this to say, which I think kind of tells us where Republicans are right now on this issue. It's not, okay, well that's a great way to start, right?, perfect statement. It's not Okay. No notes. That's perfect. And any member of Congress, particularly ones that are on important committees or sensitive committees like armed services or intelligence or foreign relations, knows that it's not okay. I don't know if a head will roll or has to roll yet, but this has got to be the last time something this big and dumb happens.

Again, I agree with you. Like this has to be the last time something big and dumb happens. And man, this was dumb, but he continues, and this is where things start to get a little shaky. Whether you apologize or not, admitting that it was a mistake, I think is the minimum. And I don't think it's difficult, quite honestly. I find it strange that some people find it difficult. That's correct. I'm going to reserve my judgment for the, you know, the final blame, if you will, until a further investigation has happened. In the meantime, I think the main thing to do is admit that it was a screw up on somebody's part along the way. And I'm pretty confident it'll never happen again.

Now see that that's, that's where you lost me. Like why? What makes you think Kevin Kramer from North Dakota in this cabinet of idiots, in this White House of Fools, what makes you confident it'll never happen again? Hell, are you even confident that it hasn't already happened before this one? I mean, right. Have you even thought about that prospect? How many times did it happen before this where some incorrect person was added to a text message, but maybe it wasn't a reporter? So we didn't, like how many times has it happened? If you're prone to this mistake, the chances of it happening multiple times are great. And I think that's something that people haven't even gotten into their heads yet. Like this may not be the first time. This may have just been the most recent time because it was somebody outside of the administration. I'm not confident that it won't happen again.