'He doesn't give a f---': Trump is making a fool out of every Republican senator who said he learned his lesson from impeachment

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• At least five Republican senators said they believed President Trump would act with more caution after being impeached.
• In the days since, Trump has purged his administration of those he perceives as disloyal, and his attorney general has exercised unprecedented political influence over the Justice Department.
• "He doesn't give a f---," a GOP strategist in frequent contact with the White House told Insider. "Why should he? He's the commander in chief, and the party did the right thing standing by him."
• Trump has shown GOP senators "how foolish, naive, or hypocritical they were," one former prosecutor told Insider. "The guy is operating a well orchestrated crime spree while making himself money and lowering his golf score at the same time."
• "There need to be mass protests," an expert on fascism told Insider on Wednesday. "The Republican Party is betraying democracy, and these are historical times. Someone has got to push back."
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When Republican senators voted to acquit President Donald Trump in a nearly party-line vote last week, several said they believed he had learned his lesson from the impeachment process itself.

"We've put our statements out there and he's been through an impeachment," said Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio. Portman has said for months that Trump's conduct toward Ukraine was inappropriate. "It's all of our responsibility to figure out what we think is the right way to do it. For me, it was speaking out."

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