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.
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Precisely...McConnell’s explanation, that conviction is unconstitutional, was only a smoke screen for his refusal to find Trump innocent of the incitement charge. McConnell only added to his reputation as a snake; he was biding his time until the senate vote was over...and he could make his weaselly explanation. Then he preceded to immediately attack Trump. Something he had been planning for years. Infamy...and an assault on the First Amendment.
“Influencers instead of Representatives of the people”!!! This !!!!!
The problem with the Repukes however isn’t just the leadership
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Correct. Tts a soulless party devoid of courage, convictions and principles. It doesn’t stand for anything. If it was a business it would have gone bankrupt long ago.
Mitch needs to be removed from his leadership post, period.
Washington makes the Okefenokee swamp look like a puddle
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You know, Washington was built on a swamp.
Mitch needs to be removed from his leadership post, period.
Not much of a leader. Needs to be removed completely. His loyalties lie with the GOP not America.
I’m not, but long ago I came of mind that the GOP is a fraud.
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Its a fake party.
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