Tag: Trump abandoned

Consequences of Mazars Abandoning Trump Could Be Serious

Buck Banks

“This explodes the national security risk by a factor of 10, because now he’s going to be desperate for new loans. Legitimate banks are not going to touch him. So it expands the universe of shady characters who could offer him loans in return for favors that might include disclosing U.S. national security secrets.”

— Joseph Cirincione, a fellow at think-tank the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, responding to the news that Donald Trump’s accounting firm has stopped being the Trump Organization’s accountant firm, according to the Daily Beast.

Top Republicans Are Done with Trump

Buck Banks

“Top Republicans want to bury President Trump, for good. But they are divided whether to do it with one quick kill via impeachment, or let him slowly fade away. … Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would be more likely than not to vote to convict Trump — a green light for other Republican senators to follow. … House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy would love a Trumpless world, but doesn’t want to knife him with fingerprints. This school of thought wants to let Trump do himself in, without a big party fight over his sins and sentence.”

— Axios

A Quarter of Republican Leaders Refuse to Back Trump

Buck Banks

26%

Of Republican governors and members of Congress are refusing to endorse Donald Trump, according to a USA Today survey. “It is an extraordinary demonstration of the fracture Trump’s candidacy has revealed in the Republican Party. There is no precedent in modern American political history for elected officials of either party to refuse en masse to support their presidential nominee. It shows that Trump will have to wage a national campaign without the fleet of surrogates and supporters that every other presidential contender has relied on for decades to help bring voters to the polls. And it illustrates how hard it will be for the GOP to rebuild if Trump loses.”