If Republicans take the Senate, we might as well hand the whole shebang to Trump
Two incumbent Republican senators, both up for reelection in November, pose a clear and present danger to our democracy. One, Florida’s Marco Rubio, is the leading Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and is refusing to say that the former president stealing highly classified documents and shoving them in a closet in his Florida resort is a bad thing. The other, Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson, has admitted that he was involved in the plot to overturn American democracy on Jan. 6, and is now calling on voters to “Join us in unifying and healing and saving this nation.”
Rubio wants us to know via Politico (of course) that he is “joining forces with a top Democrat to demand a formal assessment of any damages to national security related to Trump’s handling of the documents.”
“The people who hate Donald Trump are happy about the raid. The people who support him were not,” Rubio said in an interview. That indicates immediately that he is on Trump’s side, calling it a raid. Rubio insists that he’s in a third category with “A lot of other people are wondering about the wisdom of undertaking such an effort, an unprecedented effort, before having exhausted every other opportunity or every other potential option they would have.”
No. If you are a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, there isn’t a “maybe a little big of espionage by a former president shouldn’t be investigated too strenuously” option. There is just not. He took an oath to protect and defend the constitution, and they didn’t put in any outs for being scared of the former president’s mob.