GOP Congressman calls Donald Trump an “evil Forrest Gump”
Even as Donald Trump’s toxic unpopularity and worsening criminal scandals threaten to bring him down and everyone around him, various Republicans in Congress are still publicly defending him. Do they truly want to be in bed with him, or are they merely trying to make the best of a bad situation while waiting for Robert Mueller to finish Trump off? In the case of at least one Republican Congressman who has been publicly defending Trump, now we know the answer.
We have no love whatsoever for conservative political writer Erick Erickson. We think many of his stated views are reprehensible. But we’ve also observed that he has insider connections in the GOP, and that he doesn’t make things up. For instance, he knew that Jeb Bush was dropping out of the race the day before it happened, when no one else saw it coming. So when Erickson tells the tale of a private conversation he recently had with a Republican Congressman, we believe it happened. The details of the conversation are eye popping.
Erickson says he was in a grocery store with a certain House Republican. The Congressman’s identity hasn’t been revealed, other than it’s someone who regularly goes on television and defends Trump. Here’s what the Congressman said: “It’s like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really f*cking stupid Forrest Gump.” He went on to explain that if Trump tries to fire Mueller, he and his fellow Republicans are likely to impeach him over it, for the sake of trying to save the GOP from going down with him.
In case his position on Donald Trump wasn’t clear enough, the Republican Congressman in question added this: “I say a lot of shit on TV defending him, even over this. But honestly, I wish the motherf*cker would just go away. We’re going to lose the House, lose the Senate, and lose a bunch of states because of him.” In other words, the Republicans in Congress are looking at Trump in largely the same way the Resistance looks at him. They’re just not willing to say it or do anything about it – at least not yet. How much longer will they remain silent, and how big of a political price will they pay?
