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The Space Between Impeachment and Loyalty.
Are Republicans going to help the country or hurt it some more?
Now that the Democrats have pulled the trigger on a formal Impeachment investigation the nation turns toward the Republicans, and most specifically the Republicans in the Senate. What will they do? Will they place loyalty to the President — or loyalty to their own interests, which they believe can be achieved through this president ? — above the Constitutional duty to try the Impeachment of Donald Trump?
For whom do they work? Or, better yet to say, to whom are they working…?
In the summer, after a redacted version of the Mueller Report had been released to the public many a Republican closed ranks around the President. The report did provide enough of the facts and allegations to contrast, glaringly, with the four-page summary quickly issued by Attorney General Barr in the immediate aftermath of the completion of Mueller’s work. Indeed, Mueller himself had written to the Attorney General detailing misgivings about the four-page summary.
Long simmering questions came to the fore about individual actions and not just those of the President. Between the Attorney Generals’ obsequious deference to the President and the revelations that several people obstructed President Trump’s efforts at…
