Former Rep. Joe Walsh on Thursday slammed his former colleagues within the Republican Party for his or her fealty to President Donald Trump.
Walsh, who stop the GOP after a brief and failed 2020 bid to problem Trump within the major, shared a clip of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin deflecting when requested for his personal opinion on inexperienced power.
“I’m for no matter President Trump is advocating for,” he mentioned on Fox News.
Walsh wanted simply 4 phrases to explain the present state of the GOP: “It’s a cult.”
Walsh additionally used the c-word after posting one other clip, this time of Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) saying Trump must be “eligible for a 3rd time period,” which might violate the Structure as at present constructed.
“He’s a real chief,” gushed Ogles, who has additionally nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Ogles in January introduced an amendment to the Constitution that might enable Trump ― and, as written, solely Trump, at the least at present ― to serve a 3rd time period.
Walsh has repeatedly known as the GOP a “cult” for its devotion to Trump.
He grew to become an unbiased when he stop the occasion in 2020, however earlier this yr joined the Democratic Party. He told Politico he made the swap “to assist defeat my former occasion” and didn’t rule out working for workplace once more as a Democrat.
Walsh was first elected in 2010 as a part of the Tea Get together motion that sprang up in opposition to then-President Barack Obama. He was criticized on the time for extremist rhetoric and admitted in 2019 he’s “mentioned racist issues on Twitter” for which “an apology shouldn’t be sufficient.”
He has mentioned that he regrets his previous feedback.
“I used to be obsessed with my trigger ― so passionate that I mentioned and did issues I remorse, so passionate that I grew to become, far more than I’m pleased with, a divisive political asshole,” he wrote in June.
“I’m nonetheless a conservative, however I’m not a conservative jerk,” he added, saying he now desires to “assist heal the divide on this nation ― the divide I helped to create.”
