Erick Erickson started a political conflagration today when he posted comments from an anonymous congressman who is fed up with the insanity from the White House and just had to vent.
Here he is talking about the piece at CNN:
Conservative writer Erick Erickson on GOP congressman’s Trump rant: “I think we’re reaching a boiling point with Republican frustration with the President over Mueller, Syria and everything else” https://t.co/5gwkv03e7y
— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) April 12, 2018
Here’s more from Erickson:
One of the President’s congressional defenders has privately decided he hates Trump and wants to unload. https://t.co/WvDfCDTzfz pic.twitter.com/JLlUlk193a
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) April 12, 2018
From his piece:
“I read you writing about this, about wanting to say nice things when you can and criticize when you need to. He may be an idiot, but he’s still the President and leader of my party and he is capable of doing some things right,” he says before conceding it’s usually other people doing the right things in the President’s name. “But dammit he’s taking us all down with him. We are well and truly f**ked in November. Kevin [McCarthy] is already circling like a green fly circling sh*t trying to take Paul’s [Ryan] job because nobody thinks he’s sticking around for Nancy [Pelosi]. She’s going to f**k up the cafeteria again too. [Lord’s name in vain], at least I’ll probably lose too and won’t have to put up with that sh*t.” He won’t lose. His district is very Republican.
What’s the problem, though? Well, get ready…
“It’s like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really f*cking stupid Forrest Gump. He can’t help himself. He’s just a f**king idiot who thinks he’s winning when people are b*tching about him. He really does see the world as ratings and attention.
“Judiciary is stacked with a bunch of people who can win re-election so long as they don’t piss off Trump voters in the primary. But if we get to summer and most of the primaries are over, they just might pull the trigger if the President fires Mueller. The sh*t will hit the fan if that happens and I’d vote to impeach him myself. Most of us would, I think. Hell, all the Democrats would and you only need a majority in the House. If we’re going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker. Take him out with us and let Mike [Pence] take over. At least then we could sleep well at night,” he said before going off on a tangent about how the situations with Russia and China scare him. Then, “You know having Mike as President would really piss off all the right people, too. They think they hate Trump. Mike is competent,” at which point he sighs and laments that there were, in his mind, more than a dozen competent choices in 2016.
“I say a lot of shit on TV defending him, even over this. But honestly, I wish the motherf*cker would just go away. We’re going to lose the House, lose the Senate, and lose a bunch of states because of him. All his supporters will blame us for what we have or have not done, but he hasn’t led. He wakes up in the morning, sh*ts all over Twitter, sh*ts all over us, sh*ts all over his staff, then hits golf balls. F*ck him. Of course, I can’t say that in public or I’d get run out of town.”
Now there are a few people saying that Erickson made this all up. I really doubt that – I’m seeing a lot of other reports from places I trust that point to continued frustration with how Trump operates and how it makes it so difficult to get anything done. Now, if you listen to his defenders, he’s the one trying to get everything done and the deep state, and the traitorous GOP is holding him back. I guess the election will decide for us who wins this one.