From Politico, at least one South Dakota elected official has weighed in on how the verdict in a New York Civil Court against former President Trump for sexually abusing a woman would affect his future:
The verdict, which was announced in a federal courtroom in New York City on the first day of jury deliberations, sparked quick reactions from the former president — who continued to deny the allegations — and from multiple members of Congress, including Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.).
“You never like to hear that a former president has been found in a civil court guilty of those types of actions,” the South Dakota senator told reporters Tuesday. When asked if he could support somebody who’s been found liable for sexual battery, he said: “I would have a difficult time doing so.”
Sounds like Rounds is supporting Biden.
Not supporting Trump doesn’t mean supporting Biden… this logic is like saying since I don’t find McDonald’s food appetizing, therefore I must support Burger King… when in fact both options are crap!
But you have to pick one.
$130 billion spent in Ukraine. These guys need to get their priorities straight.
Which is mostly outdated equipment that we would otherwise be sending to storage. It’s already being replaced whether we send it there or not. Less than 5% of the yearly defense budget to reduce a super power to nothing. Sounds like a great deal.
Calling out Trump for being a terrible human being doesn’t equal supporting Biden.
Rounds is a Democrat – always has been, always will be. He cares nothing for the people of South Dakota nor for U.S. Citizens. Apparently, Rounds has exactly zero understanding of the legal system and its utter corruption in Manhattan. Biden is by far the most corrupt “President” in US History, yet Rounds doesn’t seem to care one iota about investigating the Biden Crime family nor the unlimited corruption of Washington DC.
The only thing Mike Rounds cares about is lining his own pockets! One would have to be a fool to believe otherwise.
i’ll take rounds’ republican bona fides as fact, over someone who says rounds is a democrat. what?????
Thank you Mike Rounds! It is time to move past Trump. Trump is a man of no integrity who has no vision for leading our country and is not a true conservative.
That’s why Noem would beat all 3 of our federal office holders in DC for any position. No one can beat her in a primary.
My main problem with Trump is he was President and is ultimately responsible for allowing Faucci to take over our economy and fiscal policy instead of firing him not dissimilar from Bidens incompetence on the economy and excessive spending.
His personal ethical and character flaws, while different, are as disqualifying as Biden’s.
Hard to tell the difference between them except on social issues. We deserve better than either of these POS’s.
can agree.
When senators aren’t running again they speak their minds.
Impotent hand-wringing. Rounds’ll support whoever the GOP nominee is, and Trump’s hold of his base will not loosen.
Trump just has mountains of baggage at this point. Take your pick: personal issues like this sexual assault case or the old Access Hollywood tape, all the financial issues with his businesses, the issues relating to the 2020 election, etc.
Some of it is more valid than others and I know some of it can be explained away or at least softened by the explanation that it’s a witchhunt.
But at this point, wouldn’t the GOP be better off turning the page and trying a candidate who doesn’t have all this baggage? Especially when, by the way, we are opposing an 80-year-old president and can’t really use the age/competency issue when we oppose him with a 77-year old candidate?
OOPS!! time to primary senator rounds for cowardice under fire or whatever the trump crew calls pragmatic opposition to the previous president over his horrible political desires.
Pence for President…in fact, Pence/Chaney would be a great ticket.
Like many Democrats, opposing Trump is one of very few things Lefty Liz Cheney has ever gotten right.
Calling Liz Chaney a “Lefty” shows how low into the conspiracy theory morass the mainline Republican Party has sunk. Liz Chaney’s conservative credentials are stellar, certainly as good as any South Dakota Congressman of the last fifty years.
Are we talking about Liz Cheney or Liz “Chaney”? Liz Cheney’s conspiracy theory is that Republicans who oppose wasting hundreds of billions of our tax dollars provoking endless, pointless proxy wars on the other side of the planet are conspiring with terrorists.
John Thune never would have said that, and the assertion that Cheney’s conservative credentials are as good as his is laughable.
@Terry — You go with that ‘Pence/Chaney’ ticket; looks really good on you. Better yet would be a ‘Pense/Chaney’ ticket just to draw more interest in your punditry. Meanwhile for those of you who wish to swallow the allegations made by E. Jean Carroll hook, line, and sinker (and that includes you, Sen. Rounds), I’d say that your lack of discernment is only overshadowed by your Trump Derangement Syndrome. I’d like to know who you were cheering for during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings?
“Trump lost to Joe Biden” has now eclipsed ” Gerry Ford lost to Jimmy Carter” as the benchmark for the biggest loser in GOP history.
Assaulting women. A fake university. Stealing top secret documents. Those are bad enough, but this is what really concerns me.
Trump wrote on Truth Social: “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution”
It’s right there. He told you. He starts with a bold lie and then goes on to threaten the very Constitution this country is founded on. Even though he can’t prove that a single county was stolen from him… much less the four states he needed to win in 2020.
And Trump said this before the election: “The only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged”. He has been telling you for years. Elections are only legitimate… if he wins. On top of that, he tells you that he admires the likes of Putin and he “fell in love” with Kim Jong Un.
I don’t want a damn monarchy. There are many options other than voting for Trump. Options that don’t undermine democracy.
How do you feel about active CIA employees and past senior national security spreading disinformation before an election and then when Biden used it in the last debate they sent each other high fives? Is that a threat to our democracy?
Got any proof of this?
No. At most it influenced a small percentage of votes in one election. It is not a threat to to our Constitution or the electoral process.
Big difference.
The CIA leading a disinformation campaign during our Presidential campaign is ok with you? They all know it was Hunters but they said otherwise using their former highest intelligence title.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-hunter-biden-laptop-former-intelligence-officials/
I don’t think any of the people in that letter were active CIA at the time the letter was written. I’m open to being corrected on this if you can. Secondly, I believe the consensus is that, while some (maybe most, definitely not all) of the electronic records are legitimate, how they ended up on this laptop, with a technician whose somehow knew to contact Rudy Guliani, are decidedly not legitimate and do, in fact, bear the hallmarks of Russian interference. And I certainly know, Hunter Biden does not hold any office of public trust, unlike several people closely related to the previous administration. Also assuredly, the GOP controlled House has made investigating this a priority, so if there’s anything to it, we’ll eventually find out.
You fail to mention that all or almost all of the “Disgraceful 51” held US security clearances at the time of the letter. All 51 should be permanently barred from holding ANY US security clearances and they should also immediately also multiple criminal charges due their many legal violations.
The signers had top level clearance as recent intelligence employees, and the signatories made edit suggestions to a person working in the CIA where it was known the laptop was authentic
Elk, You are charged with being a Cervidae identifying, mainstream media enamoring, alternative fact denying pontifier. That being the case, I find your expressed desire to protect democracy difficult to embrace.
In the mean time what else about Mike Rounds would you say that makes him a great man to behold in regards to his propounding on Donald Trump? Time for him to Gear Up on other matters, I say, such as immigration or employment based fifth preference (EB5) policies, or protecting all of us from being further savaged by Obamacare.
If you think Mike Rounds is an example for justice and democracy, you are just ignoring too many facts to be credible to me.
It’s just so impressive. When they use five syllables when one or two will do.
Translation…elk can’t understand words with more than two syllables.
You’re so clever. One might even describe your comment as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Well, I wouldn’t call it that. But Mark Mowry might.
Well, that was stupid.
See… wasn’t that easier than saying I’m an “alternative fact denying pontifier”?
Trump is a loser. Period. If we follow him, we are volunteering for another defeat.
Polls show the majority of Americans want neither Trump nor Biden. Most of us didn’t want them last time around either. Hoping to not hold my nose this time around!! Nikki Haley is our first choice for brilliance, a vocabulary greater than a fifth grader and a class act!!
Noem would be so much better.
Nikki Haley is dumber than a bag of rocks. She also has zero charisma, original ideas, foresight, or any leadership ability whatsoever. She is unfit to hold ANY elected office.
i’ll just say it again – i wish i lived in a country where we could have even just one term with mike rounds as president. his political instincts, practical horse sense and proven abilities are rare and effective and i think we’d all benefit. but you all go ahead and think what you want about whoever you like. if trump heads the gop ticket, it’s over.
This comes from a Senator who has done nothing about the border, done nothing about inflation, nothing about interest rates, nothing about crime, nothing about armed IRS agents, nothing about the economy, nothing about the deficit, nothing, nothing, nothing.
Rounds doesn’t have right to comment about anyone else’s inadequacies. His own record is dismal.
Wasn’t Rounds going to abolish the Dept. of Education? Whatever happened to that?
Republicans losing control of both the Senate and House happened. Even when they had control of the Senate they didn’t have a filibuster proof majority.
As this thread comes to a close, I think it should be documented and remembered every time Elk speaks:
Elk doesn’t think it a big deal that the CIA and intelligence community run a disinformation campaign to aid a Presidential candidate and congratulate themselves they might have been the difference in the election.