This also belongs very specifically to the Senate GOP. They now have a special responsibility.

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Hey. @SenateGOP.

You could've stopped this in January. He was on trial for extorting an ally under attack from Russia, holding up military aid, demanding a fake investigation against Biden in exchange for release. Remember? I do.

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Jonathan Swan - @jonathanvswan
I’ve been covering Donald Trump for a while. I can’t recall hearing more intense concern from senior officials who are actually Trump people. The Sidney Powell / Michael Flynn ideas are finding an enthusiastic audience at the top.
12:24 PM · Dec 19, 2020

Now _we're_ getting it from Russia, albeit so far only as a devastating hacking spree that his administration enabled...

...and he's talking about a coup to throw out election results and keep power.

How about it, @SenateGOP?

You're in it, now. You're up to your _asses_ in it, @SenateGOP.

Some of you are part of it. I'm not talking to you.

I'm talking to the rest of you - Mitt Romney excepted - who so far are merely complicit. The ones who haven't pulled that metaphorical trigger on treason.

Those of you in the @SenateGOP who are merely complicit at this point can still step back. You can back out of this.

Maybe.

But you gotta shut this shit down right the fuck now.

That means stop trying to screw the country out of spite. The Fed changes you're demanding, to hamstring its ability to dig out of this recession so you can blame Biden for a poor economy?

Now is not the _fucking_ time, @SenateGOP.

That's part one.

Part two is that @SenateGOP has to shut this coup shit down. Accept the vote of the people.

And if that isn't enough to shut Donald up, you need to tell @SpeakerPelosi you'll pass the quickest removal anyone's ever seen if she can whip charges through the House again.

You have a special responsibility here, @SenateGOP, because this is on you whether you like it or not.

You could've stopped this criminal in January. You didn't. And now, over 300,000 dead and Russia stealing every secret we have later, we're here.

This needs to stop. Now.

Or just go ahead and go full treason, @SenateGOP. A bunch of you already have. Just do it already.

It's one or the other, because at this point, doing nothing is the same as going full treason. You may as well take off the mask.

It's go time. Pick your _fucking_ target.