GOP Sen. Grassley faces frustrated Iowans at town hall: 'Are you proud of Trump?'

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Source: CNN

A room full of frustrated Iowans urged Sen. Chuck Grassley to stand up to President Donald Trump and push back against the executive branch during a Tuesday town hall.

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“We would like to know what you, as the people, the Congress, who are supposed to rein in this dictator, what are you going to do about it?” one man asked Grassley. “These people have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a foreign country with no due process. Our government cannot do anything?”

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One person asked the senator point blank: “Are you proud of Trump?”

“There’s no president I’ve agreed with 100% of the time,” he replied. The tight and measured response drew groans from the crowd, where most of the seats were occupied.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/politics/grassley-town-hall-frustrated-iowans-trump/index.html

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1. He was the guy hip deep in the Jan. 6th plot to stop the vote

Why would you expect accountability from him. Mike Pence is ten times the man he is (and that is pathetic).

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2. I literally just bumped into the video of this looking for a different one

The whole thing -

A CSPAN blip -

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3. Time for them to retire him. Passed time, really

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4. Brave Saint Grassley, wading into that liberal bastion of Fort Madison

Lets see him hold one in Ioway City or Ames or Cedar Rapids or Des Moines etc. etc.