Former United States President Donald Trump has fired at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and issued a scathing statement after McConnell published an open article in the Wall Street Journal blaming him for the January 6 riots in the United States. Capitol.
“The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political ‘leaders’ like Senator Mitch McConnell at the helm,” Trump said in a written statement. “McConnell’s commitment to normal affairs, the status quo policy, coupled with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill and personality, quickly drove him from majority leader to minority leader, and it will only get worse.”
The Senate on Saturday voted to acquit Trump of the charge of “incitement to insurrection” in connection with the Capitol siege that followed the then president’s meeting on January 6 in Washington. While McConnell did not join the seven Republicans who voted to condemn Trump, he issued a scathing assessment of the former president’s behavior in a speech on the Senate floor and published an open article in the Wall Street Journal on Monday that the blame for the violence at Trump’s feet.
“There is no doubt about former President Trump’s moral responsibility. “His fans stormed the Capitol because of the unconditional lies he shouted in the world’s biggest megaphone,” McConnell wrote. “His behavior during and after the chaos was also unscrupulous, from the attack on Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to the praise of the criminals after it ended.”
In response, Trump, with his acquittal legally returning to the White House in 2024, equaled the opportunity to tear McConnell apart.
‘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, “Trump said in his statement, adding:” Mitch is an expensive, grumpy and impeccable political heel, and if Republican senators stay with him, they will not win again. He will never do what needs to be done or what is right for our country. ‘
Trump also inspired behind McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, his own former secretary of transportation, that the company’s family is facing a conflict of interest.
“Similarly, McConnell has no credibility with China due to his family’s significant Chinese businesses. He is not doing anything about this huge economic and military threat, “Trump said in the statement without explaining why, given the circumstances, he had appointed her to his cabinet in the first place.
Chao resigned her position two days after the riot in the Capitol, which she called “completely avoidable”.
Since Trump was deported on social media, he has not been engaged in the swift response attacks that have characterized his four years in office. Polls among Republicans nevertheless show that he remains the most popular leader of his party, and would be a formidable candidate if he were re-elected president. Fifty-nine percent of Republican voters say according to Trump’s poll released Tuesday, they want Trump to continue to play an ‘important role’ in the GOP, and 54 percent said they would support him if he in 2024 as president-elect.
Trump said in a statement on Tuesday that he intends to continue with endorsements for candidates who support his America First agenda.
“Where necessary and appropriate, I will support primary opponents who make America great again and put our policies of America first,” Trump said. “We want brilliant, strong, considerate and compassionate leadership. Before the pandemic, we produced the largest economy and jobs in the history of our country, and our economic recovery after Covid was also the best in the world. ”
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