Business Insider reported:
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Republican leaders must "have a relationship with Donald Trump" in order to be effective.
There is no "relationship" with former President Trump, just complete fealty.
Senator Lindsey Graham once confronted international strongmen. Now he supports America's version to the point that Red Team candidates have to kiss the ring.
Update 12-14-21: A number of Trump ring kissers asked White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to intervene with the President to stop the Capital insurrection. However, Roman emperor Trump had carnage to take in before acting.
Update 12-16-21: Esquire reported:
They (Fox News hosts and Donald Trump Jr.) knew something fundamental: Trump was watching this unfold on TV and doing nothing to stop it. The Capitol of the United States was under attack, and the president didn't lift a finger.
Update 12-18-21: Former Trump Chief of Staff Meadows has been described as "chief enabler to a president who was desperate to hold on to power." Anyone under Trump is expected to enable the former President.
Update 1-2-22: Former President Trump plans to hold a press conference from Maro Lago on January 6th, the one year anniversary of his white, middle aged Capital wilding. Lord, help us all.
Update 1-4-22: Trump intends to lie about January 6th, his national disgrace. Trump's ego maintenance is endangering our democracy.
Update 1-5-22: Donald Trump cancelled his January 6th address/press conference on the one year anniversary of his followers overrunning the U.S. Capital in violent fashion.
Sixty percent of Americans polled believe an attack like the Capital insurrection conducted by the unhinged far right could happen again. The far-right plans to harass local and moderate GOP officials and their children—people who are part of the same party—to pressure them out of positions overseeing elections or on school boards, in order to install more radical acolytes. All in the service of one losing President.
Update 1-10-22: Trump targeted two Red Team Senators. He's after Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Round's Trump sin was to call the 2020 election "as fair as we've seen." Like any bully Trump wants to control another politician's endorsement of Murkowski.
Update 1-15-22: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in the aftermath of Jan. 6th that President Trump bore responsibility for the attack. No more. The public deserves answers however protecting the former president is Red Team Job #1.
Update 1-26-22: Donald Trump suggested White House advisor Ivanka was being abused by the January 6th investigatory committee. "They go after children." No, they asked someone who has information pertinent to the investigation to cooperate.
Update 1-30-22: Former President Donald Trump continued his disparagement tour in Conroe, Texas. There he said he could pardon the Jan. 6th insurrectionists while sending mobs against government agencies investigating Trump's possible illegal behavior. In Trumpworld he makes the law so nothing he does is illegal. That does not intersect well with reality. A Republican government ethicist said Trump's giving aid to seditionists by pardoning them disqualifies him for the Presidency. Lord, he's yours to handle because our democratic systems appear to be completely incapable of evicting him from political life.
Update 2-3-22: CNN reported "former President Donald Trump’s chilling comments at his Texas rally last week offering pardons to Jan. 6 rioters if he’s elected and calling for “massive protests” if prosecutors take action against him are signs that he’s in “burn-it-all-down mode."
Update 3-17-22: The Red Team may be trying to dislodge the detritus blocking their throat. National Review columnist Charles C.W. Cooke isn't swallowing Drump's distorted visions. Cooke wrote:
The idea of selecting “extraordinary selfish” Trump to run in 2024 “should be absurd, risible, farcical, outré” and “the preserve of the demented fringe,” Cooke wrote.
The GOP is not short of candidates who haven’t lost an election and then “disgracefully lied about it for a year” or “inspired a riot in the service of that lie.”
Update 4-14-22: Power couple Mitch McConnell (then Senate Majority Leader) and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao pondered how to manage a deranged Drump after his election loss. There is no managing Drump who lives in a world of his own supreme malignancy.
Update 5-16-22: Trump told rallygoers he would write a book about the election in which he lost. His title? The Crime of the Century. That would be serial perjury from a disgraced former President.
Update 5-29-22: Trump called the insurrection "a hoax" at a Wyoming rally. Seven people died as a result of Trump's right wing middle-aged wilding. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said Trump wants the Red Team to be "the party of me" where "everything has to be about him and his grievances."
Update 6-6-22: Pathetic loser Donald Trump called Former House Speaker Paul Ryan a pathetic loser.
Update 6-11-22: Ex-President Donald Trump dissed daughter Ivanka after she told the January 6th House committee that she accepted Attorney General Bill Barr's conclusion that election fraud was minimal and insufficient to change the outcome of the election. Trump's twisted ego steamrolls family members telling the truth under oath.
“This is somebody who’s never changed. He doesn’t evolve. And as you said earlier, he has one thing he cares about, and that’s himself. That will never, ever change, no matter who gets in his way, no matter who gets hurt, even if it’s his kids.”
Update 8-17-22: Trump's Ukraine fixer Lev Parnas detailed out the Trump "mob" family.
Update 9-15-22: Trump threatened civil unrest if he is indicted for taking classified information to Mar-a-Lago.
