Lawrence O’Donnell blasts GOP ‘cowardice’ after senators caved to Trump on war powers vote
MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell blasted a pair of Senate Republicans after he said they were “successfully bullied” into switching their votes on an Iran war powers resolution following a contentious meeting with President Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted to advance a resolution that would give Congress the ability to halt the president’s war. However, when a nearly identical vote came up the next day, Cassidy rejected the effort and Paul changed his vote to “present.”
On Thursday’s “The Last Word,” O’Donnell noted that the senators’ apparent change of heart came only after the president reportedly berated Republicans during a closed-door GOP luncheon in the Capitol earlier in the day.
“These are the cowardly lions, and they are succumbing to the most cowardly lion of all the Republican cowardly lions: Donald Trump himself,” he said. “The cowardly lions all sat there yesterday, letting Donald Trump yell at them while they were trying to eat the luncheon sandwiches.”
The MS NOW host also said: “Bill Cassidy, who said yesterday he could not be bullied by Donald Trump, was successfully bullied by Donald Trump into switching his vote. As was Rand Paul, the faux libertarian member of the Senate, who now thinks Donald Trump should be allowed a free hand in waging a foreign war without congressional authorization, something Rand Paul did not think until Donald Trump yelled at him yesterday.”
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Allison Detzel is an editor/producer for MS NOW. She was previously a segment producer for “AYMAN” and “The Mehdi Hasan Show.”
