President Donald J. Trump salutes Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, prior
to boarding Marine One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, to
begin his trip to Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. (Official
White House photo by Tia Dufour)
The “Patriot Party” is now
officially registered with the Federal Election Commission, and
its leaders say they’re collecting funds for “Donald J. Trump for
President, Inc.”
But they’re doing it without the blessing of the former
president, according to Jason Miller, a spokesman for Trump’s
still-active campaign,
Axios reported on Monday.
“We are not supportive of this effort, have nothing to do with
it and only know about it through public reporting,” he said.
Trump had floated the possibility of a new party to compete with
the GOP after his long battles with the party’s entrenched
bureaucracy.
However, Trump’s campaign declared to the FEC in a notice:
“DJTFP is placing this disavowal notice on the public record out of
concern for confusion among the public, which may be misled to
believe that Patriot Party’s activities have been authorized by Mr.
Trump or DJTFP — or that contributions to this unauthorized
committee are being made to DJTFP — when that is not true.”
Miller said Trump has “made clear his goal is to win back the
House and Senate for Republicans in 2022.”
Earlier, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman confirmed
reports that Trump had backed away from creating and leading a
third party.
Trump has started to believe
there are fewer votes to convict than there would have been if the
vote had been held almost immediately after Jan. 6, the people
familiar with his thinking said.— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January
24, 2021
“In last 24 hours, after floating through a few folks that he
was considering creating a third-party as a way to keep Senate Rs
in line ahead of impeachment, Trump has been talked out of that and
is making clear to people he isn’t pursuing it, per ppl familiar w
his thinking,” she wrote. “Trump has started to believe there are
fewer votes to convict than there would have been if the vote had
been held almost immediately after Jan. 6, the people familiar with
his thinking said.”
Jan. 6 was the riot at the U.S. Capitol that prompted the
Democrats’ “snap impeachment” after just two hours of debate and no
investigation or witnesses, accusing Trump of inciting an
insurrection.
Many constitutional scholars, however, argue that the purpose of
impeachment is to remove a president from office and contend the
planned Senate trial is invalid because Trump already is gone.
Summit News noted Trump had promised when he left Washington
that the movement was just beginning and he would be “back in some
form.”
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., called the Democrats’ impeachment a
“farce.”
“The Constitution says two things about impeachment — it is a
tool to remove the office holder, and it must be presided over by
the chief justice of the Supreme Court. If Justice Roberts is not
presiding over this, then it is not impeachment. This charade will
be nothing more than bitter partisanship and political theater,” he
wrote.
“If we are to blame politicians for the most violent acts of
their craziest supporters, then many of my colleagues would face
some pretty harsh charges themselves. I’ve been shot at,
assaulted and harassed by supporters of the left, including some
who directly said the words of politicians moved them to this
violence,” Paul said.
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