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Every Trump supporter, and everyone still giving him the benefit of the doubt, needs to read this statement from Congressman Peter King:
Let me state this as unequivocally as I can: Every item which President Trump objected to in the COVID Omnibus legislation was specifically requested by the Trump Administration! You got that: – EVERY item! That includes aid to Egypt, Pakistan, Burma, Sudan and Central America and funding for the Smithsonian.
Additionally it was totally deceptive for the President to say that Congress failed to provide assistance to restaurants. The truth is that Congresswoman Grace Meng and I co-sponsored legislation to give direct grants to restaurants but the Trump Administration adamantly refused to assist restaurants.
Believe me I don’t take any satisfaction in pointing out how wrong the President is. I have strongly supported the President and worked hard for his re-election. I am particularly indebted to him for his outstanding leadership in stopping MS-13’s killing rampage on Long Island, crushing the ISIS caliphate in the Middle East and standing with the Police.
However when I saw the rabid, uninformed comments that were made attacking Republicans who voted for the legislation which President Trump supported and urged us to vote for, I felt compelled to set the record straight. And let me be clear the COVID legislation was negotiated by President Trump’s own Treasury Secretary. Every word was approved by the White House.
The accompanying legislation implementing the President’s foreign policy and domestic programs were debated and approved by the respective Committees with zero objections from the White House. The White House also agreed to the bills being merged and voted on together.
When the legislation passed, the Treasury Secretary said it was “the best birthday present” he could have gotten. It was later, almost 24 hours after the legislation had passed, that the President said the legislation was a “disgrace.”
The only possible excuses for the President’s conduct is that he didn’t know what his own administration was doing or he panicked in the face of rabid attacks by yahoos on social media.
For those of you who made the hysterical attacks on those Republicans who voted for the legislation advocated by President Trump: Did you really think that Kevin McCarthy and Lindsay Graham were part of the “swamp” or that Senators such as David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler were betraying President Trump? Did you even take a moment to think logically or are you incapable of intelligent thought? Or perhaps is your rage motivated by an insecurity which compels you to project your character defects on to others?
If you had any strength of character or sense of moral integrity, you would realize how misguided and uninformed you were and you would apologize.
I certainly don’t expect that and I really don’t care. All is know is that I acted honorably by voting for what President Trump requested and the overwhelming majority of Congress supported.
As for those uninformed malcontents I will pray for them in the spirit of Christmas and Hanukkah.
Merry Christmas! God Bless America!!