.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump suggests Sen. Romney should be ‘impeached’ (which is impossible).
Late last week, after Donald Trump publicly urged China to go after Joe Biden, Sen. Mitt Romney was willing to do what most Republicans were not: he admonished his party’s president. “By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling,” the senator wrote on Twitter.
Incidentally, a higher percentage of the electorate voted for Romney in 2012 than voted for Trump in 2016. It’s also worth noting that there is no mechanism in American law that allows for the impeachment of a sitting U.S. senator – a detail Trump might know if he had a stronger familiarity with the basics of his own country’s system of government.
I don’t imagine it’s pleasant to be on the receiving end of a presidential fit, but it’s not as if Trump’s rant did any meaningful harm to Romney. So where’s the disincentive for others in the GOP? The Washington Post had a separate report over the weekend on the widespread panic in Republican circles, filled with GOP officials who fear drastic consequences if they step out of line. One former senior administration official said Republicans are largely united behind Trump because “nobody wants to be the zebra that strays from the pack and gets gobbled up by the lion.”
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