Eric Loh

Just imagine hardliners like Jordan and Greene in committes authorized to pursue conservative grievances reinforcing the GOP's image as the party of Trump. The Dems must be quitely delighted looking at 2024.

If the GOP allow the minority extreme Maga to have their ways, it will come back to haunt them just like the GOP senators cowardly gave Trump the acquital in his impeachment charges and he created more political chaos for the party. This small but powerful far right faction will leverage their new found power to shape the party's legislative and investigative agenda and the losers will be the citizens. I hope the House Republicans will worked out a plan even at the expense of bipartisanship to isolated and sidelined this 10% of trouble makers.

Not only national embarrassment but this impasse would mean the house can't convene and will hold up proceedings for the 2 chambers. Nothing will be done as the nation is being held hostage by petulant bickering GOPs that get paid by tax payers. Just hope some of the decent lawmakers will leave the party and become independents.

It has been terrible for the GOP since Trump descend the escalator. Trump’s toxicity will continue to poison the party and seeped into every level of party politics. It will be a prolong train wrecked for the speaker position.

Will give him a last big grift from suckers who still support this perpetual con man.

IMO Trump miscalculated the timing of his election participation announcement. Now that he has throw his hat in, he can’t withdraw as it will be seen as concession which is political poison to his base. His base has declined considerable but still a considerable asset to any nominee hopeful like Desantis. The drop in support for Trump will unlikely to guarantee party nomination. He knows it and thus resort to his usual threats and bullying. Don’t think he will get his way with the party and he can’t back off his election participation innuendo even behind bars as a third party candidate. Disqualifying him as candidate will give him some saving grace for his shrinking base https://www.axios.com/2022/12/15/trump-republican-favorability-polls

Desantis accepting Trump’s support for 2024 comes with bags of risks. He will be perceived by the general population as subscribing to Trumpism politics of election denialism, anti trade and anti immigrants which have cost the GOP to lose 3 elections. It will not heal the fractures in the party. A clean cut from Trump is better for Desantis. Personally I doubt Trump has the humility to pledge his support for Desantis and beg for a pardon. Just not Trump.

Loving every bit of Trump’s antic. Republican created this monster and now have to deal with it. He will not go away amicably and the GOP will be badly bruised going into the 2024 election. Happy days for the Dems, the progressive and the liberals.

He paid more taxes in China than in USA. Make America Great he proclaimed; sick joke.

I believe her. Just judge Trump’s record setting turnover of high and low level staffs that were either fired or resigned. So this news is not a surprise. Just a pattern of his egoistic behavior that want total obedience and pettiness. She also was in a position in the administration to see all those shenanigans.

Personal papers will still require the Archivist of the United States written views on the proposed disposal. Clear disposal guidelines stated in the Presidential Record Act. Mark Meadow apparently didn’t seek those views. He is in deep poo poo. Cassidy Hutchinson gave that testimony under oath and thus carried lots of legal weight. Onus on Mark to prove otherwise

Expect the tax returns will draw attention to prosecutors. There are interesting revelations in the summaries of the House Ways and Means Committee's analysis that will trouble the former President. Just one report point to a glaring institutional failure by IRS to undertake mandated audits of his returns. Did Trump and his cohorts ran roughshod over institutional checks and balances? The no tax that he paid, tax deductions will also be of interest to prosecutors. I don't think Trump will sleep well when the tax returns are released.

Understandably your first reaction is to defend Trump. But think about it after your emotional outburst. Trump funded the $10 billion program to help develope the vaccines. His administration has knowledge that could be useful information for the grand jury. Why try to protect him to hide the truth. Nothing to hide as you brillantly said.

A long while ago, Trump initiated Operational Warp Speed to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing and distribution of covid-19 vaccines. You think that should be investigated?

You seem a person who put much thoughts in this subject. Like to hear your views as to why he change his position from strongly supporting vaccines to this abrupt change.

From touting that the vaccines are safe and effective to this vaccine probe. The conniving mini Trump saw the signals in early 2020 that a portion of the Republicans base was increasingly opposed to getting the shot. Trump was booed by some of the audience when he said he had received a covid-19 booster. To hell with people health and safety, it is purely political business and he is cashing in. But by the spring of 2021, the governor’s tone had changed. He stopped promoting the vaccine and started to elevate the narrative of vaccine skeptics. He sued CDC for imposing vaccine mandate. He followed with more policies against vaccines and masking. How is that the behavioral pattern of this man can fool some “intelligent”people that he is genuine in pushing this probe for the people for medical reasons. Baffle me.

The threat of nuclear only came from Putin. No western allies has make any nuclear threat. They only agree that they will never succumb to Putin’s nuclear threat. It’s all on Putin’s hands to de-escalate the tense situation. If ever there be firing of nukes, they will come from Russia. Your plead for calm is misdirected and should only be addressed to Putin. He started the invasion and he threatened nuclear. The west is responding to his madness.

Republican Party, a party of traditional values which provides exemplary role models. Heck it is now a party of liers, election deniers and conspiracy theorists. The party need to exorcise these bad elements from the party and revert back to the former glory years of Reagan.

The only people you need to ask is the citizens. Majority do not support the wall while the majority support helping Ukraine. Yours is a Republican view point and they don’t represent the majority of the citizens.

I can see why the border issue can’t be resolved bipartisan when the GOP base just want to annoy the left and cheer on the theatrics of Abott and Desantis. .

3 million jobs since pre pandemic and labour market shortage. What a dysfunctional political system. GOP is holding hostage the country well being by weaponizing the immigration issues. Juvenile and small minded behavior by Abbott and DeSantis with their theatrics at the expense of the country for small personal gains. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lack-immigration-labor-market-shortage-economist-191213573.html

The questions, remains, though, who was the source of this information, and why did you believe it? It's the kind of number that should arouse at least a bit of scepticism. Well there are many articles out there. I have read 3 separate Forbes articles each claiming a different amounts, also stating that he has money invested overseas - what ever that insinuates. So does any of us really know. Some state $110million others state higher so if it is only $20million, it is confusing why Forbes - to mention just one, cannot give reasonably accurate total. There are many articles all conflicting, and as stated I have read 3 different figures from Forbes alone. But as a mere mortal, I hold my hands up and state that I am happy to be corrected. There are lots of things we don’t know and they are lots of stuffs generated by Russian propagandists. What we know is that Zelensky is the reason as to why Russia has not overran and annexed Ukraine. He could have fled in days after the invasion as his army offered little resistance. He kept the country united and rallied the western allies against Russia aggression. That’s all I care at this moment. Other stuffs, not important for now.

Trump damage himself. All self inflicted.

He should be banned but his toxic legacy will remain. He has validated extreme right politics and party nativism. Trump’s acolytes and his fanatical base will dictate power in congress. Not only he be banned but his acolytes must be voted out of power so that the Republican Party can be released from the hold of Trump .

Putin compared himself to Peter the Great in quest to take back all Russia land. His grandeur ambition to to bring Soveit Union back together. Western influence is just his excuse. He has invaded and annexed Georgia and Crimea without much military response and fight back. Ukraine is Europe's last stand to send a strong signal to Putin that his imperialistic ambition will not met unchallenged.