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In Stimulus Battle, Donald Trump Was No Match For Mitch McConnell, Who Shaped His Presidency
Newsweek ^ | Dec 31 2020 | Bill Powell

Posted on 12/31/2020 12:18:27 PM PST by rintintin

President Donald Trump will be leaving Washington soon, but the most powerful Republican of the past four years isn't going anywhere. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, says a former member of the White House staff who advised Trump throughout the first three turbulent years in office, "was sort of Trump's 'Washington whisperer.' He offered quiet advice, and provided critical help on some very big stuff," says the former staffer, who requested anonymity in order to talk candidly. ''You could call him kind of a co-president."

Much of Trump's legacy, when it comes to domestic policy at least, will be fleeting. Many of his signature initiatives—building a wall at the Mexican border, restricting immigration, and implementing broad economic deregulation—were enacted by executive order, and much of it will be swept aside by his successor. The transformative parts of Trump's domestic record are largely McConnell's work. The Senate majority leader took the political neophyte under his wing when he arrived in Washington four years ago, played a central role in his most important achievements, and is now at odds with Trump in his final days in office.

The Senate majority leader's achievements include the appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices—made possible before the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch by the majority leader's implementation of the so called "nuclear option," the elimination of the 60-vote requirement to end a filibuster for nominees to the high court. It also includes the appointment of 224 federal judges nationwide. (Since 1976 only Ronald Reagan, who served two terms, appointed more.) McConnell got the 2017 tax bill passed narrowly in the Senate, which Trump supporters credit with powering a strong economy that, they believe, would have led to his re-election were it not for the Covid-19 pandemic.

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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: mcconnell; nomatch; rintintin; trump; weaknews
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1 posted on 12/31/2020 12:18:27 PM PST by rintintin
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To: rintintin

McConnell is done.


2 posted on 12/31/2020 12:20:38 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: rintintin

Oh, the ‘majority leader’ implemented the ‘nuclear option’ and not his democrat predecessor?!?

What a load of tripe article !


3 posted on 12/31/2020 12:22:43 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Safrguns

“ McConnell is done.”

He’s looking forward to dealmaking with Biden.


4 posted on 12/31/2020 12:23:00 PM PST by rintintin (Every time a conservative watches Tucker, a Fox News liberal reporter gets a pay raise. )
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To: Pikachu_Dad

He extended the nuke option to Supreme Court nominees, right?


5 posted on 12/31/2020 12:24:07 PM PST by rintintin (Every time a conservative watches Tucker, a Fox News liberal reporter gets a pay raise. )
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To: rintintin

oh, ‘new sqweek’.


6 posted on 12/31/2020 12:25:06 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rintintin

He will be making deals to stay out of Gitmo.


7 posted on 12/31/2020 12:25:17 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: rintintin

Bro post a thread that isn’t incredibly wrong and depressing once in a while

It’ll do you some good :)


8 posted on 12/31/2020 12:26:31 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: rintintin

Trump recognized early on that McConnell was a backstabber.....

Another anonymous source from Newsweek....


9 posted on 12/31/2020 12:26:38 PM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: dp0622

BTTT


10 posted on 12/31/2020 12:27:28 PM PST by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: rintintin

Mitch is a CCP bitch and so is Roberts!


11 posted on 12/31/2020 12:29:10 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: rintintin
Much of Trump's legacy, when it comes to domestic policy at least, will be fleeting.

and who are you? never heard of you, and Trump will go down in hist as the world's greatest leader in the 21century

12 posted on 12/31/2020 12:32:36 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed. )
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To: Safrguns

The GOP is done


13 posted on 12/31/2020 12:35:57 PM PST by Skywise
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To: rintintin

McConnell “shaped” Trump’s presidency just like Annie Wilkes “shaped” Paul Sheldon’s ankle in “Misery”.


14 posted on 12/31/2020 12:36:52 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: rintintin

While Newsweek would publish anything they thought would
slander Trump, McConnell did fritter away an opportunity
of a lifetime.

He and Ryan really proved how badly Trump was needed, and
more importantly why we went outside the party to get a
man for the job.


15 posted on 12/31/2020 12:38:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (foreign collusions did happen, it just wasn't 2016 when it happened)
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To: Skywise

Not. One. Red. Cent!


16 posted on 12/31/2020 12:41:29 PM PST by Shady (It is the rule of law vs tyranny, plain and simple, and it is the fight of our lives...DEFCON 5!)
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To: Skywise

Not. One. Red. Cent!


17 posted on 12/31/2020 12:41:37 PM PST by Shady (It is the rule of law vs tyranny, plain and simple, and it is the fight of our lives...DEFCON 5!)
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To: rintintin

Mitch is an establishment guy, the Senate is very much an establishment institution- designedly so!

Compared to Obama- who was totally ruled by Reid and Pelosi- President Trump was much more successful at getting his/our way.

Funny that Obama’s extreme ineffectualness was never mentioned by the media...


18 posted on 12/31/2020 12:42:20 PM PST by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: rintintin
Sp says NEWSWEAK.
19 posted on 12/31/2020 12:44:40 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Safrguns
McConnell is done.

Wanna bet? The Republican senators will never turn on him because he protects them from having to go on the record with votes they don't want to have to defend. Mitch is happy to take the heat and be the villain, and they're happy to let him do it.

20 posted on 12/31/2020 12:44:55 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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