Posted on 02/16/2021 2:54:14 PM PST by RandFan
President Donald Trump denounced Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday as an 'unsmiling political hack' – days after the Republican party's most senior elected official voted to acquit Trump of inciting the Capitol riot but then blasted his conduct in an excoriating speech.
Trump blamed McConnell, whose office sits steps from where a large group of rioters were arrested on January 6, for causing the loss of two GOP Senate seats. Many GOP consultants and some elected officials have blamed Trump's own election overturn effort for costing the party control of the Senate.
'The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political 'leaders' like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm,' Trump began in a letter with his new stationary as the '45th President of the United States.
'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,' he wrote.
'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.
McConnell is the most powerful member of the Senate, although his effort to navigate impeachment suggested he may have lacked the ability to cross the majority of his conference who was inclined to stick with Trump.
One fellow Republican, Sen. Ron Johnson, even denied this week that there was an armed insurrection in the Capitol.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
McConnell and Linda Grahamnesty are the reasons why we had characters such as Barr, Wray, Rosenstein, Sessions in charge of the DOJ, who were instructed to do nothing to investigate the crimes of their groups, Hunter, Hillary e.t.c.
McConnell and gang, including McCarthy, Paul Ryan e.t.c. made sure that those in charge of these key agencies did nothing, slow walked any investigation, and hid any incriminating evidence. They prevented Trump from firing these characters.
Another vote here for President Trump.
Glad Your Back, President Trump!
Very good statement from Trump. He’s right.
Washington makes the Okefenokee swamp look like a puddle,
Oh yes. I am very aware of that. And again, I do not have a problem with that. No doubt that investigation was well underway before those comments were made by Cheney and McConnell. If Trump did nothing wrong, then he has nothing to worry about.
Well done 45!!!! 100% support here!!!!
Maybe he did it for the right reason.
Sure, he has nothing to worry about other than hiring still more attorney’s to look out for his best interests. Still
has to put up with months or years more investigations with
leaks that come out looking like he’s ready to take the big
fall, when they don’t plan on taking any legal action at
all.
How would you like to put up with five years of that?
- February 16, 2021 -Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
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!
Presumed globalists and sell outs. FEDs are, by design, power grabbers.
Someone asked where the statement was originally posted... and I don’t know, but at the bottom of the wording is a note saying that the document was paid for by- saveamerica.com
https://www.facebook.com/pg/saveamerica/about/?ref=page_internal
I’m not sure if this is “Trump’s” PAC or not?
Also beaucoup funds went to a Stop The Steal org. / p.a.c. of some kind or another during the process to expose the election fraud. Are these two entities one and the same or independent from one another?
I hear you. But, Trump must have known this would be the price he would pay if he decided to do what he did on and before January 6, 2021.
Like I said. If he has done nothing wrong, he has nothing to worry about.
That does not make this right.
You know that.
The 2022 election will be the first battle for the soul of the Republican party
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The Republican party doesn’t have a soul. Its devoid of any principles, convictions or courage. It doesn’t stand for anything except itself.
Conservatives are in a fight against increasingly aggressive socialists, and McConnell's speech is now wonderful fodder for Trump's and our lefty enemies.
McConnell did the right thing and is now using his action as credibility, while stabbing Trump in the back. Tossing a bone to the Pubs and one to the Rats/Rinos....
I found it interesting how the Never Trumpers pivoted from a “vote of conscious” to “vote to protect the constitution” after Lizard Cheney was threatened with a primary defeat. It seems the GOPe did some poll testing and gaslighting about the constitution is preferred message to the low info wing of the GOP base.
Thanks for posting the full statement. It’s resonating with me, and I’m usually pretty sympathetic to McConnell, who I generally see as a canny pragmatist with a tough job.
I'm not, but long ago I came of mind that the GOP is a fraud.
I hear you. But, Trump must have known this would be the price he would pay if he decided to do what he did on and before January 6, 2021.
Like I said. If he has done nothing wrong, he has nothing to worry about.
Trump defending himself against a stolen election is “wrong”? They don’t the GOP the Stupid Party for nothing and it’s not because of who we elect.
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