Republican Steve Schmidt, who served as the senior campaign advisor to John McCain in 2008, has come out and said what non-Republicans already know: Republicans in Congress can’t be trusted to do the right thing.
Schmidt expressed shock at the GOP’s willingness to cover for Trump’s lies and abuse of power in the firing of FBI chief James Comey.
Any Republican member of Congress who takes the president [and] his spokespeople’s assertions that this action occurred because Director Comey was unfair to Hillary Clinton is either a fool or has so lost sight in this era of tribal politics of their responsibilities to the country that they’ve become faithless to their oaths.”
Schmidt even went as far as to suggest that the county needs a Democratic Congress in order to ensure sufficient checks on the president.
So for Republicans, there are few that give you hope that the country comes first.
Party before country. The Republican way. When Democrats say it, Republicans can just dismiss it as partisan whining. But that argument gets harder to make when even some of the more honest and patriotic members of their own party are starting to face the truth.
The president certainly doesn’t get off easy in Schmidt’s assessment. According to Schmidt, there’s no reason to believe a word coming from the Trump White House, which is exactly what I’ve been saying for months going back to the campaign. While Trump supporters continue to insist that Trump is an honest hero of the working class being smeared by liberals, at least some in his party are willing to state the obvious:
This White House has mainstreamed lying to a degree that just beggars the imagination. Across the board, every person who walks out of that White House stands in the briefing room on the North Lawn has lied to the American people.