'Defy the president?' Analyst claims Trump loyalty test could backfire in his face
Raw StoryDonald Trump has demanded that Republican senators step aside and allow his controversial Cabinet nominees to waltz into their positions unimpeded — but they're privately bristling at the challenge to their authority, according to a new report. "That's the open question, and I think, you know, all of us reporters, it's incumbent upon us to kind of get a sense of how intense this battle is," Nichols told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." When the president of the United States starts personally call senators, really leaning on them, there's no way out of that sort of showdown, and there is a lot that's interesting about this." "It's interesting Trump didn't apparently really call any senators before he made these nominations," Nichols said. "They like their prerogatives and they want to see the report, to see the contents of that ethics report," Nichols added, "and they say they want to give Gaetz a fair hearing, but they want to know what's actually in there, and it's pretty clear whether or not it's the entire report or just the contents of the report, that a lot of the details will come out and then it's just up to the senators.
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