Josh Holmes (right) reacts to Mitch McConnell becoming Majority Leader
Posted on 01/17/2022 8:27:31 PM PST by conservative98
Both camps have denied any real friction, and they blamed “the media” for overhyping tensions, but Trump advisers say they see a hidden hand at play: that of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is in a pitched battle with Trump over the future of the Republican Party in political races all over the country.
They pointed to the podcast itself, because DeSantis made the attention-grabbing remarks on Ruthless, which is co-hosted by McConnell’s longtime adviser Josh Holmes. Shortly after the podcast was posted Friday, Twitter was flooded with the suggestion that DeSantis had knocked Trump by saying one of his biggest regrets was not having been “louder” about the harms of the lockdowns intended to help slow the spread of the virus.
To many in Trump’s camp, it all looked like a setup.
“I like Josh. Josh is great. But he’s a wholly owned subsidiary of McConnell World. And there’s no way you can tell me that this was all a coincidence,” a top Trump adviser said, echoing four others who spoke on condition of anonymity because they didn’t have authorization to speak publicly about private discussions in his political shop.
“Also, DeSantis and his staff knew what they were doing. How many Florida general election voters are listening to the Ruthless podcast?” the adviser asked in an interview. “Now, that said, they might have been hoping for more out of Ron, because, let’s face it, he didn’t really criticize Trump. But they knew the media would instantly jump on it and wish-cast it into existence."
The adviser said McConnell clearly sees DeSantis as a lesser of two evils and a way to annoy Trump.
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I knew it. DeSantis and McConnell seem to be forming some sort of relationship.
Mitch is very good at the hidden game, like how he got Democrat Doug Jones elected in AL.
And saved Murkowski when she was primaried out.
Josh Holmes, Former Chief of Staff and campaign manager to @leadermcconnell Co-Host of @ruthlesspodcast
“Media Stone Soup”
It is NBC folks. They are wanting to stir the sht and split T and DS and the party.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if McConnell was behind some rumors of friction between Trump and deSantis, but it was Roger Stone, not Mitch, who made that recent divisive remark about deSantis.
If you want to hear some right wing DC insider talk regarding this subject, check out this podcast from the co-host of Steve Bannon’s WarRoom show from this afternoon.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/01/17/is-the-trump-desantis-beef-real/
Remember, Trump put The Turtle’s CCP wife in his cabinet.
How does a Roger Stone comment on Gab today make Desantis go on the Mitch McConnell Chief of Staff podcast last Friday? By the way it looks like Stone deleted the comment on Gab.
Yes! NBC = FAKE NEWS!!!
Trump did that to encourage McConnell’s support, plus she has good ties with East Asian nations. Mitch needs to go. He has been selling out our nation for far too long. Treason appears to be rampant in our government. Time to pay the piper.
As for riffs between Desantis and Trump, I’m thinking its liberal bait and desperation on their part. They are losing control. Nothing the NWO Democrats and the NWO Republicans do at this point would surprise me.
I think it’s foolish to expand this Republican soap opera.
Roger said this and Mitch said that.....nothing but gossip and game playing for the second string trying to remain relevant and invent click bait.
Let’s focus on getting our people elected.
This rumor mill crap is exactly what the dems want. Don’t play into their games. We need all hands on deck in common cause if we’re hoping to throw them out in November.
That first sentence of yours is a prime example of pathetic excuse making. Her family has a major Chinese shipping company, which by definition in their system makes it a CCP organization—and Trump had her as his Sec of Transportation.
Consider the source, folks...
And cui bono.
Trump is learning that the GOP-e can never be trusted.
Exactly right.
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