{"id":3779,"date":"2019-12-20T08:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T01:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2021-03-29T22:39:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T04:39:18","slug":"trump-to-house-democrats-i-am-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/20\/trump-to-house-democrats-i-am-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to House Democrats: I Am the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a White House meeting with House leaders earlier today, President Trump reportedly warned Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) from bringing articles of impeachment before the Senate for a trial, screaming \u201cI am the Senate\u201d before a host of reporters and top aides.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Trump also warned Speaker Pelosi against \u201ccontinuing down this charade of galactic proportions\u201d before \u201ccertain decisions are made and orders given.\u201d When Speaker Pelosi asked the President to clarify, he asked her if she knew the story of \u201cDarth Nixon, the Wise\u201d and muttered under his breath about the \u201cmysterious master council,\u201d seemingly referring to the House Intelligence Committee, which has been investigating the President\u2019s misconduct in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Republican lawmakers quickly took to Twitter in the hours following Trump\u2019s outburst. Rep. Bobby \u201cBoo\u201d Tlicker (R-NC) tweeted a statement of support, reading \u201cThe Democratic-sponsored COUP is nothing but a SEPERATIST movement to remove a fairly elected President several whole MONTHS before he was planning to unilaterally seize power. Trump is completely right to say he\u2019s the Senate. Do Nothing Dems and Nervous Nancy can\u2019t beat Trump so they LIE and SCHEME behind the scenes with no respect for the rule of law. DISGUSTING!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Not all Republicans echoed the enthusiastic support of Rep. Boo Tlicker. Former Presidential Nominee and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) took to Twitter himself, writing that \u201cAlthough Trump\u2019s apparent disregard for due process of law, separation of powers, checks and balances, and lack of respect for the independence of the Senate is deeply concerning, I have yet to see conduct bordering on an impeachable offense. I hope that we can put this distraction behind us soon and get back to the true mission of the Republican party: Lining the wallets of me and my friends.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) seemed to agree with the President\u2019s sentiments today during an interaction with reporters. When asked how he felt about the President claiming to be the Senate, McConnell replied \u201cAh, shucks, I guess he is, now, huh?\u201d before turning to his aides and whispering, \u201cI guess this is how democracy dies\u2026with an Oval Office temper tantrum.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the hours following Trump\u2019s bizarre admission, Democrats met behind closed doors to discuss next steps. A source within those meetings, who declined to be identified, indicates that the Democratic leadership has many options and has even hired Samuel L. Jackson on retainer \u201cin the case the President continues to abuse his office and ultimately resists a lawful arrest.\u201d When asked for comment, Mr. Jackson told the <\/span>Dealer<\/span><\/i>, \u201cI have had it with these motherfucking snakes in the motherfucking White House.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a White House meeting with House leaders earlier today, President Trump reportedly warned Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) from bringing articles of impeachment before the Senate for a trial, screaming \u201cI am the Senate\u201d before a host of reporters and top aides. President Trump also warned Speaker Pelosi against \u201ccontinuing down this charade of galactic proportions\u201d before \u201ccertain decisions are made and orders given.\u201d When Speaker Pelosi asked the President to clarify, he asked her if she knew the story of \u201cDarth Nixon, the Wise\u201d and muttered under his breath about the \u201cmysterious master council,\u201d seemingly referring to the House Intelligence Committee, which has been investigating the President\u2019s misconduct in Ukraine. Republican lawmakers quickly took to Twitter in the hours following Trump\u2019s outburst. Rep. Bobby \u201cBoo\u201d Tlicker (R-NC) tweeted a statement of support, reading \u201cThe Democratic-sponsored COUP is nothing but a SEPERATIST movement to remove a fairly elected President several whole MONTHS before he was planning to unilaterally seize power. Trump is completely right to say he\u2019s the Senate. Do Nothing Dems and Nervous Nancy can\u2019t beat Trump so they LIE and SCHEME behind the scenes with no respect for the rule of law. DISGUSTING!\u201d Not all Republicans echoed the enthusiastic support of Rep. Boo Tlicker. Former Presidential Nominee and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) took to Twitter himself, writing that \u201cAlthough Trump\u2019s apparent disregard for due process of law, separation of powers, checks and balances, and lack of respect for the independence of the Senate is deeply concerning, I have yet to see conduct bordering on an impeachable offense. I hope that we can put this distraction behind us soon and get back to the true mission of the Republican party: Lining the wallets of me and my friends.\u201d Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) seemed to agree with the President\u2019s sentiments today during an interaction with reporters. When asked how he felt about the President claiming to be the Senate, McConnell replied \u201cAh, shucks, I guess he is, now, huh?\u201d before turning to his aides and whispering, \u201cI guess this is how democracy dies\u2026with an Oval Office temper tantrum.\u201d\u00a0 In the hours following Trump\u2019s bizarre admission, Democrats met behind closed doors to discuss next steps. A source within those meetings, who declined to be identified, indicates that the Democratic leadership has many options and has even hired Samuel L. Jackson on retainer \u201cin the case the President continues to abuse his office and ultimately resists a lawful arrest.\u201d When asked for comment, Mr. Jackson told the Dealer, \u201cI have had it with these motherfucking snakes in the motherfucking White House.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}