GOP Rep. Tom Rice had barely ever criticized Donald Trump before he shocked just about everyone by voting to impeach him in January 2021. His experience over the next 17 months in his district might explain why so few in his party have chosen to join him
“Good God, what are you doing?” he recalled saying. McCarthy had called Trump “responsible” for the attacks and begged him for help when he and his staff were under threat — before embracing him at Mar-a-Lago weeks later.
“He’s the closest thing to a brother I have, him and his brother,” she said. “I don’t want anything to happen to him. I really don’t. And he’s taken on the biggest bully in the United States.” Fry, a state legislator first elected in 2015, was on his way to blow up balloons for his son’s fifth birthday on a Friday evening when Trump called his phone for an interview. Trump endorsed him on Feb.1. Another top candidate dropped out, and Fry began consolidating the field.
Addressing several dozen people at Big Mike’s Soul Food in Myrtle Beach, Rice didn’t mention Trump by name — but remarked that he’d “made his next election a little more difficult” by provoking a “fellow traveling the country with a whole vendetta list.”
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Analysis: Donald Trump may not be on the ballot, but his former officials areFormer President Donald Trump's efforts to play kingmaker have had, up to this point, a mixed record of success in high-profile Republican primaries this year | Analysis by AdamWollner
Read more »
Jan. 6 committee hearings return, target Donald Trump supportersMonday's hearing will attempt to show how people were persuaded into giving money to the former president's campaign on the back of false election fraud claims.
Read more »
House committee members say there’s enough evidence to criminally indict Donald TrumpCommittee members say they have uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against former president Donald Trump.
Read more »
José Andrés Wins Donald Trump Food FightJosé Andrés wins the food fight with Donald Trump and will open The Bazaar restaurant in the ex-president's ex-hotel.
Read more »
What Merrick Garland has said about indicting Donald Trump for Capitol riotIn a speech earlier this year, Garland said that the Justice Department will 'follow the facts wherever they lead.'
Read more »
Donald Trump ‘detached from reality’ in refusing to accept election loss, House committee toldWith gripping testimony, the panel is laying out in step-by-step fashion how Donald Trump ignored his own campaign team’s data as one state after another flipped to Joe Biden, and instead latched on to conspiracy theories.
Read more »