Posted on 02/16/2021 2:18:56 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
Former President Donald Trump issued a lengthy statement attacking U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R‑KY) on Tuesday:
The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political “leaders” like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse. The Democrats and Chuck Schumer play McConnell like a fiddle—they’ve never had it so good—and they want to keep it that way! We know our America First agenda is a winner, not McConnell’s Beltway First agenda or Biden’s America Last.
In 2020, I received the most votes of any sitting President in history, almost 75,000,000. Every incumbent House Republican won for the first time in decades, and we flipped 15 seats, almost costing Nancy Pelosi her job. Republicans won majorities in at least 59 of the 98 partisan legislative chambers, and the Democrats failed to flip a single legislative chamber from red to blue. And in “Mitch’s Senate,” over the last two election cycles, I single-handedly saved at least 12 Senate seats, more than eight in the 2020 cycle alone—and then came the Georgia disaster, where we should have won both U.S. Senate seats, but McConnell matched the Democrat offer of $2,000 stimulus checks with $600. How does that work? It became the Democrats’ principal advertisement, and a big winner for them it was. McConnell then put himself, one of the most unpopular politicians in the United States, into the advertisements. Many Republicans in Georgia voted Democrat, or just didn’t vote, because of their anguish at their inept Governor, Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and the Republican Party, for not doing its job on Election Integrity during the 2020 Presidential race.
It was a complete election disaster in Georgia, and certain other swing states. McConnell did nothing, and will never do what needs to be done in order to secure a fair and just electoral system into the future. He doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will.
My only regret is that McConnell “begged” for my strong support and endorsement before the great people of Kentucky in the 2020 election, and I gave it to him. He went from one point down to 20 points up, and won. How quickly he forgets. Without my endorsement, McConnell would have lost, and lost badly. Now, his numbers are lower than ever before, he is destroying the Republican side of the Senate, and in so doing, seriously hurting our Country.
Likewise, McConnell has no credibility on China because of his family’s substantial Chinese business holdings. He does nothing on this tremendous economic and military threat.
Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again. He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country. Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First. We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership.
Prior to the pandemic, we produced the greatest economy and jobs numbers in the history of our Country, and likewise, our economic recovery after Covid was the best in the world. We cut taxes and regulations, rebuilt our military, took care of our Vets, became energy independent, built the wall and stopped the massive inflow of illegals into our Country, and so much more. And now, illegals are pouring in, pipelines are being stopped, taxes will be going up, and we will no longer be energy independent.
This is a big moment for our country, and we cannot let it pass by using third rate “leaders” to dictate our future!
He’s baaaack!
LOL!!
Your case is weak.
!)The Democrats gained control of the Senate largely because of President Trump’s false and silly claim that he “won in a landslide”
McConnell and his Rinos (most of them) helped give us Gorsuch Kavanaugh and Barrett.
I think Turtle hates PDJT because Trump never had to come to him, hat in hand, and beg for favors. Trump was/is his own person, successful beyond belief, and Turtle couldn’t stand that.
I’m getting a kick out of reading the replies here that seem
to think Trump either got it all wrong, or this is beneath
him to tell it like it is with regard to Myth McConnell.
McConnell is not an American centrist leader. The other side
has led him around by the nose at work, and it seems his wife
and her family lead him around by the nose at home.
Anyone paying attention over the last four years, should know
Myth for who he really is, but sadly some don’t. Sadly some
still think in terms of “fixing” the Republican Party.
Folks, God love ya, but please wake up to the subterfuge
going on all around you.
Trump already has 95% of House Republicans supporting him and 86% of Senate Republicans.
No need to throw that support away, just take our bad actors (why hello, Mitch) to the woodshed for sound whuppin.
The rest will fall into line.
Joseph Stolen did not win the legal vote.
you’re delusional
It’s great to hear from the real President again!
“Mitch McConnell feels trap door creaking.”
I hope so. And I hope he’s worried. WHY would he say such things when he knows they aren’t true in any way. If he wants a war between his side and Trump’s side, he HAS to know that he will not win. Has he not been paying attention the last five years?
Myth was simply one more person who saw Trump as some public
upstart who was bragging he’d fix Washington, which was an
insult to a multi-decade GOPe insider like Myth.
He determined he wouldn’t work with him, help him, cooperate
with him, or even do something he wanted even if the nation
desperately needed it. The two exceptions are judges and
the Tax Cut. Well, I hate to break it to people, but that tax cut
expires in 2024. Anyone think Biden will re-up it?
With Trump in the White House, the majority in the House
and the Senate, the best Myth and Small could come up with
was tax relief that would sunset.
Never in the history of our nation was a bigger opportunity
than 2017-2018 wasted to the degree that it was.
none of the judges are worthy of admiring either, as far as I’m concerned. weak and flimsy all of them
If we’re to reform the Republican Party I’m going to ask you to please leave. Thank you and have a wonderful day 😁
Yes! Nice to hear some truth!
Ya gotta love this man! Orange Man Bad is BADDER than ever!
The election was stolen. You and Erik Erickson need to find yourself a different political party.
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Excellent statement!
Perfect balance!
A skin-splitting scrotum kick!
Oh he’s worried all right Trump just woke him up you over stepped your power level.
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