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Democratic Senator Claims Republicans Privately Admit Trump Lies, Acquitted Him out of Fear

by Isaac Saul
February 6, 2020 at 1:28 pm
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Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is claiming Republicans senators privately concede President Donald Trump lies and only acquitted him out fear.

Brown’s op-ed in The New York Times comes just a day after Trump was acquitted by the Senate on both articles of impeachment on nearly party-line votes.

“In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit,” Brown wrote. “They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong.”

Brown added that “fear has no rival” when it comes to the instincts that motivate people, and described Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as seeking “a quick impeachment trial for President Trump with as little attention to it as possible.”

Not a single Republican senator defected from the party to vote on Article II of impeachment, which was obstruction of justice. But Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) did vote to convict Trump on abuse of power, which has quickly drawn the ire of Trump and his allies.

Mitt should be expelled from the @SenateGOP conference. #expelMitt https://t.co/reP14ZKvcB

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 5, 2020

Brown didn’t just make the claims in his op-ed, either. He also made similar remarks on the Senate floor before the impeachment trial came to an end.

Sherrod Brown on the Senate floor just now: "Privately (Republicans) tell me: 'Yes, we are concerned about what the president's going to do if he's exonerated.'"

— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) February 5, 2020

“They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like ‘Low Energy Jeb’ and ‘Lyin’ Ted,’ or that he might tweet about their disloyalty,” Brown wrote. “Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary.”

If Romney is any indication, those fears may be well-founded. Since he cast a vote to convict Trump, the president has relentlessly gone after him. On Thursday morning he released an attack ad and shortly after tweeted about Romney.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1225288731235700737

Brown finished his op-ed by saying that Republicans won’t admit they are acting out of fear, but will nonetheless be judged accordingly.

“They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid,” Brown wrote. “We all want to think that we always stand up for right and fight against wrong. But history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election.”

Tags: Donald TrumpImpeachmentMitt RomneySherrod Brown
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Isaac Saul

Isaac Saul

Isaac Saul is a senior politics reporter, editor and founding member at A Plus, the positive news oulet founded by Ashton Kutcher. He also writes the independent, non-partisan, ad-free politics newsletter Tangle. His reporting focuses on Congress, elections, immigration and climate change. His writing has appeared in CNN, The New York Daily News, The Forward, Yahoo!, The Huffington Post, Quartz, and been cited by The Washington Post, The New York Times and Fox News, among others. Before A Plus, he was an Associate Editor at The Huffington Post and the sports editor at The Pitt News.

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