Source / Time Magazine
The Trump administration is allegedly strong-arming the Republicans in the Senate.
CBS Evening News reported that a “POTUS confidant” dropped this bomb on the GOP Senators:
“Vote against the president & your head will be on a pike.”
Twitter has erupted at the report comparing Trump to vindictive authoritarian rulers…
Wasn’t that how Prince Joffrey did things?
— Marc Goldstein (@marcgoldstein_) January 24, 2020
If trump can literally threaten to kill republican senators who dare to vote against him , then it’s already too late ! Democracy is already gone and the USA is no better then North Korea !
— Don Klyne (@klyne_donald) January 24, 2020
Off with their heads! Impale their heads on the pikes of London Bridge just as in medieval England, the country from which Americans revolted due to a … tyrannical king
— riwoche རི་བོ་ཆེ་ (@riwoche) January 24, 2020
…and wondering why he isn’t being charged with jury tampering.
Threatening jury members is a crime. WTH is with this administration and these GOP Senators? It’s like felony of the week with these guys. If we even remotely contacted a jury member we would be charged. This is pure insanity.
— Otter1 (@jh7472) January 24, 2020
Is witness intimidation still a thing?
— Patriotparty (@kingrice11) January 24, 2020
Some are comparing him to a mob boss:
He’s openly acting like a mob boss now. That’s a clear death threat and what they did to people in England hundreds of years ago.
If @SenateGOP were smart they’d stick together to rid us ALL of this vile cretin & vote unanimously to #ConvictAndRemoveTrump. *They* have the power.
— Lori Sirianni (@4AnimalLife) January 24, 2020
The question is: will the threat rally the GOP to his side or backfire in his face?