Mitch McConnell can’t afford any tension with President Trump. So he’s doing everything he can to keep his fragile majority in sync with Trump and his explosive election-year playbook
There was no real agenda for the meeting, but the takeaway was clear to attendees. Trump told senators that “we need to be a team,” said Sen. Jerry Moran . When asked whether Trump encouraged senators to hammer home on the investigative front, Sen. John Cornyn replied: “He didn’t need to.”
“You’re not crazy or a conspiracy theorist if you see a pattern of institutional unfairness toward this president,” McConnell said earlier on Tuesday. “You would have to be blind not to see one.”at a federal judge for trying to slow the Justice Department’s move to drop the case against Flynn. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after meeting with Senate Republicans at their weekly luncheon on Capitol Hill. | AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
And when they had the president in front of him on Tuesday, senators decided it was not the venue to demand the explanation for the ousted inspectors general that they say they want. But after everyone except Utah Sen. Mitt Romney banded around Trump during the impeachment trial, the party turned the page.And Republicans are about to dig in even further behind Trump. On Wednesday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee will vote on a subpoena as part of the panel’s GOP-run investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.
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