Cowardly Republican Senator Admits Being Stampeded by Trump

J. Scott Applewhite/AP Republican Sen. John Cornyn admitted “there was nothing we could do to rein in the president” after he changed his mind under pressure from Donald Trump and voted in favor of Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general. Cornyn and fellow Republican “rebel” Sen. Thom Tillis had threatened to block Blanche’s path to the job by voting against him in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both men insisted they wanted reassurance from the president that he would not revive an…