Congressional Republicans, despite the clear fact that Donald Trump cowed in the aura of Russian President Vladimir Putin and sided with an avowed enemy of the United States against every U.S. intelligence agency, don’t seem to mind revealing to American voters that they are nothing but simpering cowards . . . too afraid of political consequences to speak the truth.
Some of the more cowardly Republicans like Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama, Richard Hudson of North Carolina, Billy Long of Missouri, and David Young of Iowa reportedly didn’t even bother to listen to anything Trump said at or about his meltdown at the 2018 Helsinki Summit.
Other Republican representatives like Mike Rogers of Alabama, Trey Hollingsworth of Indiana, and Bruce Westerman of Arkansas reportedly didn’t care enough about protecting our democracy to even comment on anything Trump adoringly said about Putin and disloyally said about America’s intelligence agencies.
And then there were the Republican members of Congress who weaseled out of speaking the truth by spouting drivel.
Like Speaker Paul Ryan who partially admitted the obvious . . . that Russia interfered in the 2016 election but it didn’t materially change the outcome . . . something Ryan has no way of knowing. By the way, Ryan was too cowardly to even comment on the damage done to our democracy by Trump’s fawning behavior toward Putin or Trump’s criticisms of U.S. intelligence.
After Trump lied by saying that he used the ‘wrong word’ (would when he meant wouldn’t) in Helsinki, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio said that he was happy to know that Trump “clarified” what he meant when Rubio in fact knew very well that Trump clarified absolutely nothing.
But wait . . . it gets even better.
Republican Representative Andy Biggs from Arizona actually blamed the press by characterizing questions asked in the Putin/Trump press conference about Russian interference in the 2016 election and about the possibility that Putin might have compromising information on Trump as “idiocy”.
So, Congressman Biggs, someone who swore an oath to protect our free press under the Constitution, is too afraid of the answers to allow members of the press to ask questions related to critical issues in a press conference attended by two of the world’s most important actors . . . if that isn’t blatant cowardice, I don’t know what is . . . do you?
And those, ladies and gentlemen, are just a few factual examples of some of America’s taxpayer-supported Republican cowards in action.
Do you feel better now?