GOP Senator tries to cover his backside as Donald Trump circles the drain

From the very start of Donald Trump’s time in office, Palmer Report has predicted that if Trump ever became so toxically unpopular that Senate Republicans felt they needed to throw him overboard in order to salvage their own career prospects, they’d selfishly do it in a heartbeat. Sure enough, we’re seeing an instance of that playing out right now.

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley is routinely full of crap. He’ll say one thing and then do another. He lies. He makes false promises. He’s useless and he’s not to be trusted in general. But Grassley can be trusted to do whatever he thinks is personally best for him, regardless of whether it means putting people on his own side in a tough position. Now, in a sign that he’s concerned about getting caught in the blast radius of Donald Trump’s impending implosion, Grassley is doing it again.

What Donald Trump needs more than anything right now is for prominent Republican voices to loudly echo the lies that he’s been floating about the whistleblower scandal. Trump is falsely claiming that the whistleblower isn’t even really a whistleblower, and is instead some kind of rogue spy who should be outed and face “consequences.” Sure enough, some of Trump’s dumber stooges in the GOP House have been helping him out on this. But Chuck Grassley is going a different way.

Chuck Grassley just released a statement saying that the whistleblower “appears to have followed the whistleblower protection laws and ought to be heard out and protected.” Again, Grassley is dishonest and useless. But the last thing Donald Trump needs right now is for a fairly prominent Republican Senate voice to be lending credibility to the whistleblower. As Trump’s presidency unravels, it’ll be every Republican for himself.