When they chose it to lead their group, the Senate Republican Senators apparently rejected the external pressures of Donald Trump’s allies – the secret vote helped them. But the short majority of 29 votes against 24 from which he benefited limits his room for maneuver against the Trumpist camp.
“Putin is not afraid of Trump, and sees Ukraine collapse in a few months”
During the 2016 campaign, Thune described certain words as Donald Trump as “inappropriate”. He had even asked for the withdrawal of the candidate when a recording on which the billionaire was heard to make comments of a sexual nature. During Donald Trump’s first term, the senator never hid his opposition to some of the projects dear to the president. During a television interview in 2017, he opposed the massive deportation of illegal immigrants. He was also opposed to generalized customs duties, a source of inflation, according to him.
Donald Trump’s turnaround on deliveries of arms to Ukraine exposes the chaos a little more that reigns at the Pentagon
Sportsman, slender, the one that some American journalists nicknamed the “Papy Canon”, because of his advantageous physique, has since resumed to improve his relationship with Donald Trump, since his appointment at the head of the senatorial majority. Discreet if not silent on the prerogatives of the Senate in the face of an administration which erodes each day a little more the balance of the powers, John Thune has just made the act of partisan loyalty. He did not spare his sentence in order to have the vast budgetary law wanted by Donald Trump voted. Efforts like those he had made four years ago to thwart Trump’s attempt to prevent the victory of Joe Biden’s victory.
