- Trump threw Senator Mitch McConnell under the bus in a swift statement on Tuesday.
- Trump called the powerful Republican in the Senate a “dull, grumpy, nonsensical political heel.”
- McConnell strongly criticized Trump’s actions regarding the siege of the Capitol in a speech on Saturday floor.
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Former President Donald Trump has fallen on his one-time ally, Mitch McConnell, Senate minority leader a blatant statement Released Tuesday through its Save America leadership PAC.
McConnell voted to acquit Trump in his second indictment on charges of inciting the January 6 uprising at the U.S. Capitol for constitutional reasons, but condemned Trump’s role in the riots in a highly-worded floor speech thereafter.
“There is no doubt – no one – that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” McConnell said on Feb. 13, citing Trump’s lack of quick response to stop the uprising as soon as it begins. has “as a shameful deviation from duty”
“The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president,” he said.
In his statement, Trump attacked McConnell as a “sad, grumpy, impeccable political heel” and said that “if Republican Senators stay with him, they will not win again.”
He added: “The Democrats and Chuck Schumer play McConnell like a violin – 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. ”
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Trump also blamed McConnell for the “disaster in Georgia,” which he wrote was caused because the Kentucky senator did not support higher COVID-19 stimulus tests in the bill passed by Congress in December.
“McConnell agrees with the Democrats ‘offer of $ 2,000 stimulus checks with $ 600. How does it work? It became the Democrats’ main ad, and it was a big winner for them,” Trump said.
Republicans lost the Senate by – election on January 5 in Georgia, ending years of Republican rule in the state and giving Democrats close control of the U.S. Senate.
Outlets, including The New York Times, however, reported that McConnell blamed Trump primarily for losing the Senate games over his repeated attacks on the integrity of Georgia’s elections and top Republicans in the state, attacks that Trump repeated in his statement.
The former president also criticized McConnell for not being grateful for Trump’s endorsement in his Senate race against Democratic challenger Amy McGrath in 2020.
“My only regret is that McConnell ‘begged’ my strong support and endorsement in front of the great people of Kentucky in the 2020 election, and I gave it to him,” he wrote. “He rose from one point to 20 points and won. How fast does he forget?”
Trump concluded his statement by saying, “where necessary and appropriate, I will support the primary opponents who are making America great again and putting our policies of America first.”
Trump and McConnell have reportedly not spoken since mid-December, when McConnell publicly acknowledged Trump’s election loss in a December 15 speech on Senate floor and congratulated President Joe Biden on his election victory.
The New York Times reported that McConnell intends to never speak to Trump again about his role in inciting violence at the Capitol, as well as his lack of leadership to respond to the uprising.