Trump slams ‘unsmiling political hack’ McConnell in scorching statement

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Former President Donald Trump released a raging statement against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY.) on Tuesday.
• He called McConnell a “dour, sullen and unsmiling political hack.”
• Trump and McConnell found themselves in disagreement over the 2020 presidential election results.

Ex-president Donald Trump issued a scorching statement on Tuesday against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY.)

Working previously side by side for being allies, Trump has slammed McConnell with a fury of statements worse than when he criticized Democrats.

Trump said that the party would “never again be respected or strong” as long as McConnell remains the Senate’s GOP leader. He also called the Kentucky lawmaker a “dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack.”

In his statement, the former president said that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democrats made McConnell “like a fiddle.” He also held McConnell responsible for losing the Senate seats in Georgia for failing to provide stimulus checks needed.

“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,” Trump wrote.

“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.”

Trump also criticized McConnell’s soft-dealing with China given his Chinese business relations alongside his Taiwanese wife, Elaine Chao.

“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,” the former president said.

Trump also pledged to support McConnell’s primary competitors when “necessary and appropriate.”

Both GOP leaders had gone on the different side of the spectrum after the 2020 presidential elections. While Trump repeatedly claimed that there was widespread voter fraud and that got “cheated,” McConnell pushed for the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory and asked his colleagues not to object to his certification.

Amid voting to ‘acquit’ Trump on his Senate’s impeachment case over the weekend, McConnell still said that Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for inciting the insurrection on January 6’ US Capitol siege.

He said that the attack “was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth.”

“President Trump is still liable for everything he did while in office. He didn’t get away with anything yet. We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation,” McConnell continued.