Remember when N.J.’s Van Drew promised ‘undying’ loyalty to Trump? Last year, he often didn’t mean it.
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 07, 2021
Rep. Jeff Van Drew, center, and Rep. Chris Smith, right, listen to a businessman at a reception prior to 2020 N.J. Chamber of Commerce Congressional Dinner in Washington.Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media
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After switching to the Republican Party, New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew famously pledged his his ‘undying support’ to then-President Donald Trump during a December 2019 meeting at the White House.
But in his first year as a Republican, Van Drew opposed Trump more often than all but three members of the GOP conference, according to Congressional Quarterly’s annual vote studies.
Remember when N.J.’s Van Drew promised ‘undying support’ to Trump? He wasn’t kidding.
Updated Jan 16, 2021;
Posted Jan 16, 2021
Rep. Jeff Van Drew acknowledges President Donald Trump during a January 2020 rally at the Wildwoods Convention Center.Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media
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How far would Rep. Jeff Van Drew go to show his “undying support” to President Donald Trump? Now we know.
Van Drew, R-2nd Dist., joined a majority of his House Republican colleagues in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election that Joe Biden won, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out millions of votes cast for the Democratic nominee. He gave interviews on Fox News and other media outlets echoing Trump’s false drumbeat that the president was the victim of voter fraud.
When history records this, it will come to one conclusion: Donald Trump was the most effective anti-American terrorist ever. No one, not Osama bin Laden, has done the kind of lasting damage to the foundation of the United States of America than our president is enacting right now. If America’s enemies could ha
ve drawn this up, I doubt they would have even dreamed this scenario.
– THE FINAL RECKONING OF AN AMERICAN ENEMY (11/25/20)
In the last few months I have written about events surrounding American politics that sound more like Berlin in 1932 than America in 2020. Perhaps no better example is what transpired on January 6, 2021; the day the United States Congress was to ratify the electoral victory of Joseph Biden as 46
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