Now he’s gone and done it

| 11:47 pm EDT October 7, 2019
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Since Donald Trump illegitimately took office, we’ve all been wondering what it would take for Republican Senators to draw the line and take a stand against Donald Trump. Would he have to bulldoze the Lincoln Monument and beat up the Pope before the GOP finally grew a spine? Now we’re finally getting an answer to that question.

First came Donald Trump’s Ukraine and China collusion scandals. That prompted one Republican Senator to fully stand against him (Mitt Romney), and four others to sorta kinda maybe show disdain. It was a pathetic showing from a Republican Party that’s come to embody the word pathetic. But then Trump went and did something even more deranged, by making the unilateral decision to immediately pull the U.S. out of Northern Syria, which is a victory for ISIS and a death sentence for America’s Kurdish allies.

By our count, during the course of the day today, eleven Republican Senators have condemned Trump’s Syria pullout, including generally spineless Marco Rubio and generally sociopathic Ted Cruz. Eleven isn’t even one-quarter of the Republican Senate. That’s still absolutely pathetic. But it’s eleven – and that matters, because it only takes twenty Republican Senators for Trump to be ousted from office.

To be clear, none of these eleven Republican Senators have called for Donald Trump to be impeached. They’re not there yet, because that would take real courage, and Republicans don’t have any of that. But eleven of them are now so worried that Trump’s downward spiral might end up costing them their own reelection efforts, they’re finally opening their mouths. Trump has a real problem, because he’s taken things so exasperatingly far, even these Republican cowards are finally starting to stand up to him.

Dear Palmer Report readers, we all understand the difficult era we're heading into. Major media outlets are caving to Trump already. Even the internet itself and publishing platforms may be at risk. But Palmer Report is nonetheless going to lead the fight. We're funding our 2025 operating expenses now, so we can keep publishing no matter what happens. I'm asking you to contribute if you can, because the stakes are just so high. You can donate here.