Trump’s Lonely Last Days After Riot, Impeachment
He lost his favorite means of communication, he lost the support of 10 House Republicans, he lost several formerly loyal soldiers to resignation, even Sen. Mitch McConnell reportedly said he'd committed an impeachable offense.
But that's not the end of it. The walls have continued to close around President Donald Trump in his final days in office. On Wednesday, he was impeached for a second time. But there was an unsettling quiet on the president's favorite medium, Twitter. As the impeachment debate continued on the Hill and nearly a dozen GOP lawmakers voted in favor, Trump couldn't complain to his followers – he was banned from the social media site only days before. Instead, he released a tweet-length statement as a press release (it didn't generate much buzz).
The typically boisterous, provocative president is quiet (at least to the outside world – reports suggest he is anything but quiet inside the White House) as his tenure tailspins to a close. And he's getting lonelier by the day as people and businesses reject him.
In more than a week since the mob of Trump acolytes overtook the Capitol, members of Congress – including a growing faction within his own party – called for his resignation or signaled they'll be supporting impeachment; two of his Cabinet secretaries resigned in protest along with several other members of the White House staff; social media sites like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook removed his accounts; the PGA stripped his golf courses from hosting sanctioned tournaments; and banks and business groups took pains to put space between themselves and the president.
The most symbolic blow came Wednesday, when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city is severing its contracts with the Trump Organization – contracts that covered four sites and brought in about $17 million to the family business.
"The city of New York will no longer have anything to do with the Trump Organization," de Blasio said, underscoring the depth of abandonment from the city the president once called home.
On Wall Street, Deutsche Bank announced it would no longer conduct business with Trump or his company, other than continuing to oversee the repayments of existing loans totaling $300 million. The bank the president uses for his personal finances, New York-based Signature Bank, announced it had begun the process of closing Trump's accounts, worth $5.3 million, citing "displeasures and shock" following the riot. On Thursday, a third bank, Florida-based Professional Bank, announced that it, too, planned to cut ties with the president and his organization.
The same scenario is playing out in the Senate, where McConnell said this week that the president committed an "impeachable offense" – though the Kentucky Republican stopped short of saying whether or not he plans to vote to convict him and punted the Senate trial to after Inauguration, when, notably, he'll no longer control the floor schedule.
Meanwhile, corporate donors, including AT&T, Comcast, Cisco, Home Depot, Morgan Stanley, Verizon and others, said they plan to cut off donations to the 147 Republicans who voted – at the behest of Trump – against certifying the 2020 election results.
"The biggest mistake anybody is going to make is try and rationalize what happened last week, what the president did and what that crowd did," Kenneth Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot and a major Republican donor, told CNBC on Wednesday.
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Trump’s Lonely Last Days After Riot, Impeachment
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@BuffettGirl
It is what it is.
He lost his favorite means of communication, he lost the support of 10 House Republicans, he lost several formerly loyal soldiers to resignation, even Sen. Mitch McConnell reportedly said he'd committed an impeachable offense.
But that's not the end of it. The walls have continued to close around President Donald Trump in his final days in office. On Wednesday, he was impeached for a second time. But there was an unsettling quiet on the president's favorite medium, Twitter. As the impeachment debate continued on the Hill and nearly a dozen GOP lawmakers voted in favor, Trump couldn't complain to his followers – he was banned from the social media site only days before. Instead, he released a tweet-length statement as a press release (it didn't generate much buzz).
The typically boisterous, provocative president is quiet (at least to the outside world – reports suggest he is anything but quiet inside the White House) as his tenure tailspins to a close. And he's getting lonelier by the day as people and businesses reject him.
In more than a week since the mob of Trump acolytes overtook the Capitol, members of Congress – including a growing faction within his own party – called for his resignation or signaled they'll be supporting impeachment; two of his Cabinet secretaries resigned in protest along with several other members of the White House staff; social media sites like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook removed his accounts; the PGA stripped his golf courses from hosting sanctioned tournaments; and banks and business groups took pains to put space between themselves and the president.
The most symbolic blow came Wednesday, when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city is severing its contracts with the Trump Organization – contracts that covered four sites and brought in about $17 million to the family business.
"The city of New York will no longer have anything to do with the Trump Organization," de Blasio said, underscoring the depth of abandonment from the city the president once called home.
On Wall Street, Deutsche Bank announced it would no longer conduct business with Trump or his company, other than continuing to oversee the repayments of existing loans totaling $300 million. The bank the president uses for his personal finances, New York-based Signature Bank, announced it had begun the process of closing Trump's accounts, worth $5.3 million, citing "displeasures and shock" following the riot. On Thursday, a third bank, Florida-based Professional Bank, announced that it, too, planned to cut ties with the president and his organization.
The same scenario is playing out in the Senate, where McConnell said this week that the president committed an "impeachable offense" – though the Kentucky Republican stopped short of saying whether or not he plans to vote to convict him and punted the Senate trial to after Inauguration, when, notably, he'll no longer control the floor schedule.
Meanwhile, corporate donors, including AT&T, Comcast, Cisco, Home Depot, Morgan Stanley, Verizon and others, said they plan to cut off donations to the 147 Republicans who voted – at the behest of Trump – against certifying the 2020 election results.
"The biggest mistake anybody is going to make is try and rationalize what happened last week, what the president did and what that crowd did," Kenneth Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot and a major Republican donor, told CNBC on Wednesday.
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