Trump Wanted Lindsey Graham to Take Out Mitch McConnell. Graham LOL'd

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-president-donald-trump-wanted-lindsey-graham-to-take-out-mitch-mcconnell-graham-lold

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https://archive.fo/SW628

Since leaving office, former President Donald Trump has made no mystery of his desire to exact revenge on Mitch McConnell, by rallying pro-Trump senators to block McConnell from returning to his perch as majority leader. But the ex-president has been tight-lipped about who, exactly, he would want to back as McConnell’s prospective dethroner.

However, in private conversations with close associates over the past several months, at Mar-a-Lago and elsewhere, Trump has batted around a handful of GOP senators’ names in his quest to stick it to the riot-averse “dumb son of a bitch” McConnell. Since at least late last year, Trump has been asking a recurring question.

“Do you think Lindsey could do it?” he has asked advisers, according to two sources who’ve heard him pose this same question at different points over the past four months.

He was, of course, referring to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who was one of Trump’s preferred golf buddies and confidants on Capitol Hill during his four years in the White House.

The former president’s quest to thwart McConnell’s expected return to power—provided that Republicans win back the Senate in November—is rooted in a long-standing on-again-off-again tiff between the two men, going back to 2016. The ongoing turf battle between McConnell-world and Trumpland is in itself a proxy war, played out against a backdrop of a twice-impeached former president continuing to shape the current anti-democratic, culture war-obsessed iteration of his party at local, state, and national levels.

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[dchill]

1. Get Ted Cruz!

[CrispyQ]

2. Graham knows he doesn't have McConnell's skill set. Not even close. -nt

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. I am not reading a feature about those guys.

I just took my shower.

[JohnSJ]

4. What? Take him out to dinner perhaps?

[agingdem]

5. Lindsay vs Mitch...a food fight

mashed potatoes "taking out" Jello...

[JohnSJ]

6. +++