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Chapter 1: How does Donald Trump influence GOP actions?
Watching Donald Trump put these spineless Republicans through humiliation ritual after humiliation ritual is a sight to behold. I mean, he breaks these people and for what? He's so utterly weak, they're afraid he's going to post on social media. I mean, what does he have over them? I mean, oh, mean tweet, mean post alert. It's like grow up and stand up. but they don't. I mean, here, watch this.
You've got the MAGA Republican Senator. I wouldn't say he was MAGA, but he is now. The Senate Republican leader, Senator Thune, here he's asked about Ukraine. Are you concerned that Donald Trump is calling Zelensky a dictator and Trump is blaming Ukraine for Russia's unlawful invasion? Senator Thune used to be viewed as like a A moderate guy, more of a centrist, a quote-unquote normal Republican?
Not anymore. Watch this word salad of a response he gives. Here, play this clip.
You have long supported Ukraine, aid to Ukraine. Are you at all concerned about the president's rhetoric blaming Ukraine for starting the war and calling for elections in Ukraine, which is what Vladimir Putin is calling for?
I think what I'm in support of is a peaceful outcome and result in Ukraine. And I think right now the administration, the president, and his team are working to achieve that. And I think right now you've got to give them some space, honestly. This is something this war has been ground on now for three years. There's been a lot of cost, a lot of death, a lot of injury associated with it.
And I think it's in everybody's best interest to Ukraine, Russia, Europe, the United States, if they can bring about a peaceful conclusion to the war. So that's what this is about right now, and I think most of us want to support their efforts as they move in that direction and hopefully to a successful outcome.
Then you have your Republicans like your Lisa Murkowski or your Susan Collins, and they're like, I am so shocked and offended. And then they don't do anything. And then they support Trump's chaos and rampage and destruction. This is what Lisa Murkowski said after Donald Trump called President Zelensky of Ukraine a dictator. We all heard what Donald Trump said. Murkowski goes, quote,
I would like to see the context because I would certainly never refer to President Zelensky as a dictator. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, notes, the context is that Donald Trump is Putin's little bitch. That's the context. What context? You want me to play it for you? I'll play you what Donald Trump said. Here, play this clip.
Easy, pretty easy. A dictator without elections. Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. Got to move. Got to move fast because that war is going in the wrong direction. In the meantime, we're successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia. Something all admit that only Trump is going to be able to do in the Trump administration. We're going to be able to do it.
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Chapter 2: What is Senator Thune's stance on Ukraine?
Then you have Ted Cruz go on Fox and Ted Cruz's version of events is not that Donald Trump is literally parroting Putin talking points and Donald Trump is talking about what removing troops, American troops in Baltic states and basically collapsing NATO and Donald Trump's talking about what, just totally capitulating to Russia, letting Russia do anything that Russia wants.
But for Ted Cruz, it's Biden's fault. As you know, we all know it's Biden's fault. No, not Russia's fault for unlawfully invading Ukraine. They go, it's Biden's fault.
It was clear when President Trump campaigned throughout last year that he was campaigning, among other things, on ending the war in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine was caused by Joe Biden's weakness, his weakness as commander in chief.
I mean, these people are pathetic. I mean, you had a former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev statement. He goes, he quotes Trump here, and he goes, a dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. That was Trump's, he's quoting Trump. If you'd have told me just three months ago that these were the words of the U.S.
president, I would have laughed out loud, he goes. They're mocking us in Russia. And these spineless Republicans are like, we stand firmly with Ukraine. You don't if you're allowing Donald Trump to do this. If you're enabling Trump, then you have over here MAGA Republican Senator Tim Scott, who's literally just making up numbers at this point.
He's like 10 trillion, 2 trillion, 4 trillion, 18 trillion. Here, play this clip.
And that's why Doge is so important. Whether he finds $500 billion, a trillion dollars, or even, aspirationally, $2 trillion, that probably multiplies to $10 trillion in private sector activity over a 10-year period of time. Those numbers are real dollars in the pockets of the American people.
Thank God almighty, we have a president who made promises on the campaign trail, and now he's keeping those promises. Okay.
free news for the america people free at last free at last not quite yet but we'll see who knows where they are in six months so wild then you have the trump pick as labor secretary remember who that like maga teamsters head what sean o'brien was the guy's name you know who would give the thumbs up and said donald trump so great we love donald trump or whatever that would be ridiculous
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