Former President Donald Trump issued a rare and scathing statement Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 16) against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), saying that third-rate leaders cannot be allowed to determine the future of the United States at this critical Time.
Trump’s statement, released through his Save America super PAC, blamed McConnell for the Republican loss in the Senate in 2020.
“We want great, strong, thoughtful and compassionate leadership.” Trump’s statement said. “If Republican senators are going to stay with him (McConnell), they’re not going to win again.”
Trump’s statement came days after Congress concluded his second impeachment trial on the 13th. At that time, seven Republican senators joined all 50 Democratic senators in voting to convict Trump of inciting a mob to attack Congress on Jan. 6.
While McConnell voted to acquit Trump, he said in his post-vote remarks that Trump bore “practical and moral” responsibility for the deadly siege. McConnell also left open the possibility that even if Trump is acquitted by the Senate, he could face civil or criminal charges.
“There is no question,” McConnell said at the time, “that the people who broke into this building at the time believed they were acting in accordance with the wishes and instructions of President (Trump).”
A Democratic congressman has already filed a lawsuit against Trump, and Trump’s election defense attorney Giuliani, on that basis on the 16th.
McConnell publicly denounced the Jan. 6 congressional riot as a result of Trump’s provocative supporters as early as Jan. 19, hours before Trump left office. McConnell referred to the demonstrators who broke into Congress as a “mob,” stressing that they were “fed lies” because Trump insisted there was election fraud despite insufficient evidence.
The Hill reported Tuesday that McConnell’s remarks at the end of his impeachment as Senate minority leader sent a clear signal that he wants to separate the Republican Party from Trump once and for all in order to remain competitive in future elections.
However, although Trump has left office, he still has strong influence within the Republican Party and the second impeachment gave him more civic recognition. Trump has publicly stated that he has no plans to form a third party and that he is prepared to help the Republicans win back the House of Representatives in 2022.
In addition, the seven Republican senators who voted for Trump’s guilt on the 13th all faced varying degrees of condemnation from within their state Republican parties for not representing the party’s public opinion.
Senior Republican Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) also publicly stated on the 15th that McConnell’s “scathing” comments about Trump did not represent the views of most Republican senators.
Trump’s full statement
Trump’s statement on Tuesday may mean that relations between Trump and Republican establishment leaders have become more frosty. Here is the full text of Trump’s statement.
With a political “leader” like Senator McConnell at the helm, the Republican Party can no longer be respected or strong. McConnell’s commitment to business-as-usual, status quo policies, combined with his lack of political insight, intelligence, skill and personality, has quickly transformed him from majority leader to minority leader, and it’s only getting worse.
The Democrats and Chuck Schumer (Majority Leader) have played McConnell like a fiddle – they have never been more comfortable – and they want to keep it that way! We know our America First agenda is the winner, not McConnell’s Beltway First agenda or Biden‘s America Behind the Scenes. “.
In 2020, I received the most votes of any sitting president in history, nearly 75 million. It was also the first time in decades that an incumbent House Republican won, and we flipped 15 seats, nearly costing Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) the (Speaker of the House) job. Republicans won at least 59 of the 98 bipartisan (state) legislatures with majorities, while Democrats failed to flip a single legislature from red to blue.
In the last two election cycles of “McConnell’s Senate,” I single-handedly saved at least 12 Senate seats, and more than eight in the 2020 cycle alone – and then came the disaster in Georgia, where we should have won two seats in the U.S. Senate, but McConnell used $600 to match a $2,000 stimulus check (meaning an Epidemic grant to every American) written by the Democrats.
How did this work? It became a major advertisement for the Democrats and became a big win for them. McConnell put himself – one of the most unpopular politicians in America – in the ad. Many Republican voters in Georgia voted Democratic or simply didn’t vote because they were angry at their own Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the Republican Party for their incompetence and their failure to do their job with electoral integrity during the 2020 presidential election.
In Georgia and other swing states, this is a complete electoral disaster. McConnell has done nothing and will never do what is needed of him to ensure a fair and equitable electoral system going forward. He is not equipped to do that, never has been, and never will be.
The only thing I regret is that McConnell “begged” me to strongly support and endorse him in front of the great people of Kentucky in the 2020 election, and I gave it to him. He went from being down by 1 point to up by 20 points and won. How forgetful he is. Without my endorsement, McConnell would have lost, and lost badly. Now, with his (approval) numbers lower than ever, he is destroying the Republican side of the Senate, and in doing so, is seriously hurting our country.
Likewise, McConnell has no credibility on China because of his Family‘s large Chinese business holdings. He is doing nothing about this huge economic and military threat.
Mitch is a dull, sullen, no-nonsense political hack who can’t win again if Republican senators want to stay with him. He will never do what needs to be done or what is right for our country. Where necessary and appropriate, I will endorse key candidates who support Make America Great Again (MAGA) and America First policies. We need exceptional, strong, thoughtful and compassionate leaders.
Before the epidemic, we produced the greatest economic and employment numbers in U.S. history, and likewise, our economic recovery after the New Canopy epidemic is the best in the world. We cut taxes and regulations, rebuilt our military, took care of our veterans, achieved energy independence, built the wall, stopped the influx of illegal immigrants into our country, and more. And now, illegal immigration is pouring in, the (Canadian pipeline) pipeline (project) is being called off, taxes will go up, and we will no longer be energy independent.
This is an important time for our country and we cannot use third-rate “leaders” to determine our future!
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