Eric Trump threatens GOP lawmakers who do not support election overturn
"This is Donald Trump's Republican Party."
Donald Trump’s family continues to join in sharing his unfounded complaints of alleged fraud in last year’s presidential election. His son, Eric, is getting in on the action with a threat to all GOP lawmakers who do not participate in an effort to disenfranchise millions of voters and overturn a free and fair election resulting in a win for President-elect Joe Biden.
The younger Trump shared his thoughts on the matter via Twitter, haranguing those legislators determined to uphold their constitutional oath by affirming the Electoral College vote when Congress convenes this week to ratify the tally.
He claimed that he would “personally work to defeat every single Republican Senator/Congressman who doesn’t stand up against this fraud,” vowing that “they will be primaried in their next election and they will lose.”
Although Biden secured as many electoral votes as Trump did in his supposed “landslide” victory four years earlier, Eric Trump and other sycophants continue to hang onto disproven and absurd claims that the election was somehow stolen with the help of Republican officials in various key swing states.
Some GOP lawmakers have signaled that they are willing to shirk their responsibilities in deference to the outgoing president, but enough Republicans are following the Constitution in this matter to render the attempted coup impossible.
For his part, Donald Trump is already backing potential primary challengers ahead of the 2022 midterm elections in races against those Republicans he feels have been insufficiently subservient to his whims and demands.
In a tweet this week, he wrote: “I hope to see the great Governor of South Dakota [Republican Kristi Noem], run against [Republican In Name Only Sen. John Thune], in the upcoming 2022 Primary.”
He went on to claim that Noem “would do a fantastic job in the U.S. Senate” but acknowledged that his real goal is to see his perceived rival defeated at the polls.
The elder Trump said that “others are already lining up” to challenge Thune in the primary, alleging that “South Dakota wants strong leadership, NOW!”
Regardless of Trump’s desire to see South Dakota’s GOP governor square off against the state’s GOP senator in two years, Noem has completely dismissed the idea, calling Thune “a friend” in a tweet last month that affirmed she would “not be challenging him.”
Noem tweeted at the time: “I’m honored to be Governor of South Dakota and will ask the people to give me an opportunity to continue serving them as Governor in 2022.
In an interview on Fox News this week, Eric Trump doubled down on his intraparty threats, predicting that “tomorrow’s gonna tell you a lot about the country.”
He continued: “Any senator or any congressman, meaning on this side, that does not fight tomorrow, their political career is over, because the [Make America Great Again] movement is going nowhere.”
Echoing his unhinged tweet, he declared that “they will get primaried next time around and they will lose if they don’t stand up and show some backbone and show some conviction.”
Not to be outdone, Donald Trump Jr. also weighed in during a Washington, D.C. rally at which a number of pro-Trump rioters were arrested on various charges.
“It should be a message to all the Republicans who have not been willing to actually fight, the people who did nothing to stop the steal,” he imagined. “This gathering should send a message to them: This isn’t their Republican Party anymore. This is Donald Trump’s Republican Party.”
An increasingly desperate Donald Trump has also turned against Vice President Mike Pence by applying public pressure on him to unilaterally assume powers he does not have as president of the Senate in performing the ceremonial role of opening the votes to be counted on Wednesday ahead of the congressional count.
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