Since many of us provided facts and figures in this thread -- and are aware of Kentucky politics the way you are aware of Maryland politics -- perhaps we should wander over to your thread and shit it up the way you've done here.
Posted on 03/04/2021 12:14:33 PM PST by RandFan
On Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump released another statement bashing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who he previously described as a “dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack”. In the latest statement, responding to false accusations from the Wall Street Journal that he is responsible for the loss of two Republican Senate seats in Georgia, lays the blame squarely on Republican Governor Brian Kemp and McConnell.
Initially responding to The Wall Street Journal, President Trump wrote “The Wall Street Journal editorial page continues, knowingly, to fight for globalist policies such as bad trade deals, open borders, and endless wars that favor other countries and sell out our great American workers, and they fight for RINOS that have so badly hurt the Republican Party. That’s where they are and that’s where they will always be. Fortunately, nobody cares much about The Wall Street Journal editorial anymore.” He added, “They have lost great credibility.”
President Trump then sought to “set the record straight” on why the Republican Party lost the two Georgia Senate seat. “First, Republicans did not turn out to vote because they were so angry and disappointed with Georgia Republican leadership and Governor Kemp for failing to stand up to Stacey Abrams and the disastrous Consent Decree that virtually eliminated signature verification requirements across the state (and much worse),” President Trump wrote, which he says led to “a rigged election.”
Then, President Trump proceeded to explain how McConnell – the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate – bungled the race by refusing to recognize political realities.
“Second, Senator Mitch McConnell’s refusal to go above $600 per person on the stimulus check payments when the two Democrat opponents were touting $2,000 per person in ad after ad. This latter point was used against our Senators and the $2,000 will be approved anyway by the Democrats who bought the Georgia election—and McConnell let them do it!” President Trump added, “Even more stupidly, the National Republican Senatorial Committee spent millions of dollars on ineffective TV ads starring Mitch McConnell, the most unpopular politician in the country, who only won in Kentucky because President Trump endorsed him. He would have lost badly without this endorsement.”
President Trump also included a graphic which clearly illustrates how McConnell’s poll performance dramatically increased at precisely the time President Trump endorsed him using his Twitter account on June 19, 2020. The chart also shows a second boost for McConnell after President Trump recorded a robocall endorsing McConnell on October 31, 2020.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a strong ally of McConnell and lukewarm ally of President Trump, recently traveled to the President’s Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida for the purpose of convincing President Trump to abandon his feud with McConnell, despite McConnell generating the ill will when he repeatedly accused President Trump of inciting an insurrection on January 6. It appears Graham was unsuccessful.
President Trump also noted that McConnell cannot speak authoritatively on China, as he has strong familial ties to the communist country. McConnell’s family controls a shipping magnate that, while nominally based in the United States, exclusively sails with flags from foreign countries. Additionally, McConnell’s net worth dramatically increased alongside the fortunes of this shipping company.
McConnell is also willing to work to serve the Biden regime’s agenda. Recently, he confirmed that he will green light the Senate confirmation of Biden’s Attorney General nominee, Merrick Garland, who has sought to curtail the Second Amendment for over 20 years.
Get him out of there ie the Senate!
Thanks for the post.
Go Get him President Trump!
Yes!
Yep...I can think of no better outlet from which to plant a size twelve on to Rinos' donkeys. The WSJ was a good choice: I'm surprised they gave DJT the opening.
Do you really think Donald Trump has the makings of a US Senator?
He’s be one of fifty or so Republicans (and a junior one at that) in that chamber, each with a decent sized ego and self-interest. He would be a king of the hill, wouldn’t be surrounded by the circle of assistants and luxury he’s enjoyed as President and past President. There’d endless meetings and hearings where no one would defer to him.
I think it’s a pipe dream to imagine he’d take such a demotion. Now Ivanka on the other hand.....
“President Trump came to Georgia with the specific message that his Deplorables (as well as his undeplorable supporters) should turn out to vote for Loeffler and Perdue...Did they disregard his plea out of hatred and a thirst for retaliation?”
No, but the reason they sat out that runoff, despise Trump going there twice to tell them to vote, was because they look at voting for a person as somehow ‘rewarding’ that particular candidate, rather than trying to keep a Leftist mob at bay - if for no other reason, to give their kids and grandkids a chance at being able to live in the same country we got to live in.
Now they put the country’s fate into the hands of Democrats, brilliant move. It’s a weakness on our side and it’s selfish and despicable.
Chao could have and such have been investigated when President Trump still occupied the White House.
That ship has sailed.
So you you want Trump to go the Bush route and not respond to ridiculous assertions and accusations?
If I truly felt the Journal was irrelevant I wouldn’t bother. I’d save my powder for CNN and Pelosi.
(As for GWB, I don’t think anyone ever said, “If only he lashed out at every criticism both great and small he’d have been a more effective president and politician.” For all his flaws, he did get elected twice.)
Except, that's not what happened. The WSJ Editorial Board wrote a donkey-braying editorial accusing him of the heartbreak of psoriasis, while ignoring Trump set the vote record for incumbent President and any prior GOP candidate for the Office of President.
Thank you FRiend, great read!
Since many of us provided facts and figures in this thread -- and are aware of Kentucky politics the way you are aware of Maryland politics -- perhaps we should wander over to your thread and shit it up the way you've done here.
Thanks for going to all that trouble. There certainly must be some point to it.
Since you joined FR several months ago your persistent, constant passive/aggressive shots at Trump have not gone unnoticed out here. it’s not a good look for a grown man, which I presume that you are.
That you’re surprised about getting blowback shows a total lack of self-awareness on your part. Your anti-Trump comments are like a low-level infection...it gets on poster’s nerves after a while, but you know that.
On reflection, here are quick facts to mull over while I go for my evening run.
1. Trump pointlessly wasted his vitriol on a target (The Journal) which he himself declared to be of no value.
2. McConnell won re-election in a cakewalk. He’s in debt to no one.
3. Trump rallied his supporters to vote for Loeffler and Perdue. Whatever baggage they might have carried, the fact is that his exhortation failed.
4. The stimulus payment debacle can clearly be laid at Trump’s feet.
Most Republicans in Congress were adamantly opposed to a substantial subsidy program. (I’m pretty sure that most Freepers felt likewise.) Throughout Senate negotiations between Republicans and Democrats, the White House was represented by Secretary Mnuchin.
At no point before the deal being announced did Mnuchin communicate that a $2000 payment was an Administration demand.
Only after several wrenching weeks of bargaining and the announcement of the deal did Trump sucker punch not just McConnell but the entire Republican caucus.
This public humiliation of Senate Republicans probably didn’t do much to boost turnout for the Georgia senators, but somehow it was all McConnell’s fault.
Is that fact-y enough for you?
As a grown man I’m scarcely troubled by internet blowback.
Donald....
How can I miss you if you do t go away for a while? Not saying you can’t try a comeback...but this crap isn’t helping anyone.
The blowback is not from the internet, retread, it’s from Free Republic posters.
Once you automate the job of the black inner city voter with a Dominion voting robot, you don't pay them any more.
bMitch is serving coffee to Speaker Winebox and Leader Sheckie.
He will soon be serving coffee to resident CGWhore.
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