Republican loudly booed as he predicts Trump will be convicted
Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson said the GOP "cannot win as a country without integrity in the White House."
Shortly after Hutchinson's remarks, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was also loudly booed as soon as he took the stage and throughout his remarks as he also seemingly addressed the Republican divide.
"The problem is, you want to shout down any voice that says anything different than what you want to hear. You can continue to do it, and believe me—believe me, it doesn't bother me one bit," Christie said, who is also running for president.
The Republican fired back at the boos by saying, "You can yell and boo about it as much as you like, but it doesn't change the truth. And the truth is coming."
Christie added: "And all of you need to understand: America needs better than what we've had. And it never makes America a better place, whether it's on a college campus in an Ivy League or whether it's in an auditorium in Orlando, for us to be booing and shouting down opinions we don't agree with."
I'm sure there's plenty of people ready to point out the many ways in which Chris Christie is a piece of shit. But I really do appreciate the way he's willing to actually confront others in his party and call them out on their bullshit. Even among Trumps critics and would be rivals, so many others are retiring, acquiescing, or just desperately tip toeing around the truth to avoid upsetting the flavor aid connoisseurs. But Christie is out their scolding the crowd like obnoxious little shits that they are.
And no, it won't change the minds of the people who are booing him, they already went off the deep end. But it may help shatter the illusion for those who are moving in that direction, who have been living an echo chamber, and who need someone to be the first to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
flavor aid connoisseurs
Nice one.
My guess is he's playing the long game. With how these idiots mindlessly follow trump and must reshape their whole beliefs every time he contradicts the last one, Christie is just banking on them mindlessly shuffling to the next hypocritical stop on their train ride of bullshit. Christie probably thinks trump will fall far enough when the results of some of the trials start trickling in. He wants to position himself as the new savior they can worship. He expects them to ignore the previous few years of hate and vitriol they fomented and fall in line with the next guy.
I think they are stupid enough to do it.
I don’t think Christie expects to be an idol to these people, he just wants some political power.
I think Christie was someone who Trump wanted to be VP, until Trump's plane had 'maintenance' issues and Trump was forced to stick around for a meeting with Pence which was Manafort's pick for VP.
Then Christie was put to overseeing the transfer team, which Trump shut down and yelled at Christie because they raised so much money for the transition that Trump wanted for himself. Christie of course tried to explain the money was needed for a proper transfer but we all know how that went. There's an article about that bit for those that may not have seen it.
You know your campaign is rough when you're quoted as "Republican" instead of by name.
Funny enough either they changed the title or they decided his name was only worth it for the url link were actually says his name as part of the url path title.
"why are you booing me? I'm right."
The intersection of correctness and politics is a very, very small set.
This is the moment for the party to break Trump’s hold over them. A hold that’s going to continue to cause them to lose in the greater scale. And, because they’re cowardice as fuck, they’re choosing to chain themselves further to him.
Every single republican (outside of those 8 or so idiots in the house who would never) should unify in ousting him.
they’re choosing to chain themselves further to him.
Nah. If for some reason Trump became unpopular (said vaccines work or something) these same people could come out tomorrow and say they never liked Trump and the base wouldn't care.
said vaccines work or something
He actually did say that lol. And then he was booed. And then they all forgot about it. There's nothing permanent in their mindset, there's only what is maintained by endless repetition from their media sources.
Hutchinson continued to state that such an outcome will make it harder for Republicans down the ticket to win their races if Trump, who is the current GOP frontrunner, wins the 2024 nomination.
Yes, Boo this man! And Boo anybody that wants to change this fact!
Fucking seriously. Let them implode.
Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men comes to mind.
Wow there’s another Republican who isn’t a cowardly pussy and capable of telling the truth.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson was loudly booed on Saturday after he told a Republican summit that there is "significant likelihood" that former President Donald Trump will be found guilty of a felony next year.
The former president has been facing a wave of legal scrutiny at both the state and federal levels by being indicted in four separate cases: two brought by Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith, one by the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and another by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia.
Trump has denied wrongdoing in all cases while claiming that all of his legal woes are part of an orchestrated "witch hunt" by his political enemies as he runs for president again in 2024.
While speaking at the Florida Freedom Summit, an event featuring presidential candidates like Hutchinson, the former governor cited his own experience as a prosecutor to predict the outcome of Trump's legal troubles.
As a party, we must support the rule of law, we cannot win as a country without integrity in the White House," Hutchinson added.
And it never makes America a better place, whether it's on a college campus in an Ivy League or whether it's in an auditorium in Orlando, for us to be booing and shouting down opinions we don't agree with."
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I hope Trump is convicted, because Democrats are happy with a racist lost Roomba with dementia in the White House thanks to him.
We need to do better than this.
Edit: So I'm told it isn't dementia and he always was that stupid and racist. Still don't like him or Trump.
Nice job buying the Republican talking point that Biden has dementia. Too bad there's absolutely no evidence of it. He's old. He does and says old person things. That doesn't mean he has dementia.
The "Biden dementia" thing comes from two places.
First is, Biden has a stutter. Everyone has known about it for his entire political career, and he's mostly overcome it, but every now and then he'll trip over a word. Right wing nutjobs will then scream that Biden can't form a coherent sentence, even though he can indeed do that.
The second source of the "Biden dementia" nonsense is projection/deflection. In the middle of Trump's presidency, there were some medical experts who started raising questions about Trump possibly having something along the lines of Frontotemporal dementia. Now, these were people without access to Trump's medical records or any records beyond videos of Trump, so there's a large grain of salt to be taken.
The basic argument was the Trump has a distinct stance, legs ramrod straight, but his torso leaning slightly forward. This is very common among people who suffer that type of dementia. His word choice has also tended to delve into the nonsensical more and more over the years, even if he's still able to string together a grammatically correct sounding sentence. Which is another sign of that particular strain of dementia.
The main argument against FTD is the seeming lack of apathy. FTD is a disease that robs you of your emotions.
The sub category of Semantic dementia might fit Trump better, but honestly, I think he's just a lazy conman who was never very smart in the first place.
I hope Trump is convicted, because he seems guilty.
Damn that hits a bit different doesn't it?
I never said Trump wasn't guilty. I don't like him either. I want to see that guy fail.
I'm just angry that the best we could do against an obvious threat to our country is someone who isn't mentally fit for anything, and people tell me if I don't like him, I must be a Nazi falling for propaganda.
The lesser of two evils is still evil. We need to do better than this.
If Trump is out of the picture the Democrats can finally have a healthy primary. Good riddance.