'Save your breath and remove him': George Conway urges dissenting Republicans to impeach Trump

Republican senators reportedly had a fractious meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday, which at times turned into a shouting match between dissenting members who voted in favor of an Iran war powers resolution. After reports of the temper flares emerged, the Republican senators ultimately switched their vote to block another resolution, drawing sharp criticism. Amidst the chaos, former GOP member George Conway advised his colleagues to save their breath and move to impeach Trump instead. 

Several Republicans who attended the lunch on Wednesday said Trump engaged in a shouting match with Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who voted in favor of the resolution introduced by Democrats, citing the lack of information on the framework deal that Washington signed with Iran. "The American people need to know more than ​we are being told," Cassidy told reporters, according to Reuters. "It does not appear, although I don't know for sure, that the course of this is going the way that we were told," he added. Cassidy was joined by Sen. Rand Paul, who had long been a critic of the Iran war. 

Reacting to the news of the shouting match between Cassidy and Trump, Conway offered a "helpful suggestion" to the Republicans. "Why don't you save your breath and just impeach and remove the motherf****r? Because you’re gonna have to do it at some point soon, it will be either you or him," Conway wrote in a post on X. 

However, the two dissenting Republicans were seemingly swayed by the administration as they switched sides in a late-night vote on Wednesday to block a War Powers resolution. Cassidy got a special briefing from Vice President J.D. Vance and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, which "addressed many of his concerns." Meanwhile, Paul wrote on X that he was informed that the resolution would compromise the U.S. in the negotiations; thus, he voted present to give the president more space in the peace talks. With this, the overall tally came out to be 50 to 47 to block the resolution that had advanced on a procedural vote in May, as per Reuters. The resolution would have allowed Congress to direct Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from the conflict in Iran and end all hostilities. 

While the two Senators ultimately backed the President, defections within the Republican Party have been growing in the past few months, as Trump's approval ratings hit record lows. Earlier this month, a handful of GOP members broke ranks in favor of the House Armed Services Committee adopting a provision for the National Defense Authorization Act that would require the Pentagon to inform Congress why senior military officers were being dismissed. The move was a clear rebuke to Trump's Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has been on a purge since taking charge, firing two dozen officers allegedly for not aligning with the administration's political ideology, as per The Guardian.