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February 1, 2021, 11:19 am
Donald Trump is reportedly at Mar-a-Lago dropping hints for people to tweet out his insults about Representative Liz Cheney, one of the few defectors from the Republican party who voted to impeach him again.
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According to the Daily Beast, a “person with direct knowledge of this new habit” says that Trump “has not been able to personally trash Cheney via his once widely read tweets. He has written out insults and observations, several of them about Cheney, but with no ability to tweet them himself, he has resorted to suggesting put-downs for others to use or post to their own Twitter,” reads the report.
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The former president allegedly called Cheney “totally phony” and “someone who did whatever she could to embrace him when it was politically convenient, but then moved to bury him” following the Capitol riots in early January.
I do catch myself sometimes thinking “the Trump tweet on this would’ve been funny.”
— Steadman
(@AsteadWesley) January 29, 2021
In spite of his severely reduced political power, Trump is currently fixated on the Republicans who voted to impeach him, particularly Cheney. According to CNN, Trump has “repeatedly questioned his Republican allies” over how Cheney might be removed from her position of leadership within the party, including a primary challenge in the next election.
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One of these Republican Trump allies is House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who met with the Florida man at his golf resort home to discuss the 2022 midterm elections. It appears that Trump plans to aid the Republicans in efforts to retake the House and Senate majorities that year, assuming he’ll be any help at all after instigating an attempted coup at the Capitol last month.
At the same time, McCarthy has called upon his pro-Trump colleagues to stop attacking Republican House members who voted for impeachment, telling them to “cut that crap out,” according to multiple sources close to him.
Trump’s second impeachment trial will begin on February 9, and it’s already not going well for him. Just over a week before the trial started, his entire legal team for this trial simultaneously resigned, reportedly unhappy that the Florida resident wanted them to argue that he did nothing wrong because he “won” the 2020 election. They wanted to argue that the impeachment was unconstitutional rather than ruining their careers.
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Trump has already hired two new lawyers to take on the case, and they’re exactly the kind of people you’d expect.
*First Published: February 1, 2021, 11:19 am
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