We will keep asking what it will take to make Republicans find their voices against the most corrupt and corrupting president our country has ever seen.
This weekend, we learned that the last remaining adult is leaving Trump’s cabinet: Dan Coats, a former senator and member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was ousted from his job as Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence “for telling Trump the truth. … He told Trump too many unsettling facts,” according to Slate reporter and writer Fred Kaplan.
In his place, Trump is nominating sycophant U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Texas Republican who in congressional hearings last week argued that special counsel Robert Mueller went beyond his bounds by making clear in his report that he did not exonerate the president. Well, no – because the facts didn’t exonerate the president, and Mueller said so again, clearly, in those hearings.
Wait. Was that a faint, “Oh, my!” from any of our elected Republican officials? Of course not. They’re quieter than crickets.
But Trump was not quiet. In quick turnaround fashion, he unleashed another volley of racist tweets, this time targeting Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Democratic head of the House Judiciary Committee – another committee investigating the president.