FIREFIGHTING 101

Never try to extinguish a fire with gasoline

BarkGrowlBite
October 7, 2019

President Trump started a fire with his phone call to the Ukrainian president. And then he threw gasoline on the fire with his declaration that China should investigate Joe Biden and his son. Trump obviously did not enroll in Firefighting 101 – Neve try to extinguish a fire with gasoline.

Dumb and dumber! It was dumb of Trump to ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and it was even dumber to publicly ask the Chinese to do so.

Three Republican senators are now criticizing Trump’s actions.

Mitt Romney, as expected, slammed Trump by saying, “By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.”

Ben Sasse, a senator from Nebraska, said “Hold up: Americans don’t look to Chinese commies for the truth. If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that’s a matter for American courts, not communist tyrants running torture camps.”

Susan Collins said “I thought the president made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent. It’s completely inappropriate.”

Romney has been a frequent critic of Trump and Collins has criticized him a time or two, but this is the first time Sasse has said an unkind word about the president.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called on Republicans to stand up against President Trump. “The Republican Party has got to get a grip on itself. Right now, Republican leaders and members of the Congress, in both the Senate and in the House, are holding back because they're terrified of what will happen to any one of them if they speak out,” he said. “And so, they need to get a grip, and when they see things that are not right they need to say something about it, because our foreign policy is in shambles right now in my humble judgement.”

Powell, like Romney, has been an outspoken foe of Trump. Now he is trying to drive a wedge into the crack opened in the Republican wall surrounding Trump by Romney, Sasse and Collins.

There is no doubt that Trump will be impeached in the House by the blood-thirsty Democrats. Trump better be careful because if 20 Republican senators join the Democrats and vote to convict him, that would constitute the two-thirds majority needed to terminate his presidency.

Fortunately for the President, he’s not going to get 20 Republican defections with what those mad dogs Adam Schitt (oops, typo) and Jerry Nadler accuse him of ….. but does Trump have more gasoline? And since he very likely does, have his advisors gotten Trump to enroll in Firefighting 101? I doubt it.