Do you really believe Donald is the engineer of all this mess?

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12. I keep thinking about Mitt Romney's statement that Republicans did not convict Trump

in his second impeachment trial because they are afraid of him. That statement could be interpreted in a couple of ways. Romney’s quote seemed to be more that they feared for their safety and that of their families. But it could also mean that they feared he would release information to harm their careers and reputations. I’ve never quite understood how Trump had so much power over them.

He supposedly has close ties to both the New York Mafia and the Russian Mafia, but really are they going to murder a US Senator? If it’s fear of the information he has, there’s probably only one place he could have gotten it, and that’s from Russian intelligence. There has to be a source for his power over Republicans who don’t like him but refuse to speak out against him because he doesn’t seem he type to make friends or generate genuine liking.