Trump rips McConnell in lengthy statement after being acquitted in impeachment trial

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Former President Donald Trump went after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, calling him "a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack" in a broadside attack just days after the Kentucky Republican voted to acquit Trump in his second impeachment trial.

After that vote, McConnell ripped Trump in a speech from the Senate floor, and the two have been estranged in recent months after working closely together during the former President's four years in office.

"Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again," Trump said in the statement. "He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country. Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First. We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership."

Trump asserted that the Kentucky Republican's shortcomings had contributed to the party's loss of the Senate majority, saying that "McConnell's dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/politics/trump-mcconnell/index.html

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Per the New York Times, Trump’s original draft was much nastier.

[msongs]

1. trump lost the senate, not mitch nt

[DENVERPOPS]

9. But,

Trump is gearing up to run off with the RepubliCON party and rename it GOPQ.............

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Projection, and laughable charlatanism

Trump wouldn't know "political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality" if it bit him in the butt

[Progressive Jones]

36. I'm a proud Mitch hater, but 45 knows nothing about anything in comparison.

McConnell is as evil as evil can be, but he knows the game. He knows how to use the rules to his advantage.

[AZ8theist]

40. Yup...

Doturd couldn't find a fart in a phonebooth if his life depended on it....

[grumpyduck]

3. And just why would CNN or any other media outlet

GIVE A SHIT about what that PoS said about Moscow Mitch or anyone else? He (it) is history.

Oh, yeah, for the same reason they keep giving media time to the Kardashians and other irrelevant people.

[Shermann]

8. CNN is still hooked on Trump

I thought Marjorie Taylor Greene was going to fill the vacuum, but they've tired of her.

[PJMcK]

12. Ah, it's good to see the Republicans coming apart

I love it when the Republicans fight amongst themselves.

I hope they kill one another.

[brooklynite]

13. Why? Because the relationship between Trump and McConnell impacts the 22 election...

You’re welcome to demand that Trump never be mentioned again, but he’s still newsworthy.

[twodogsbarking]

4. One egg,

two yolks.

[True Blue American]

38. Both rotten!

[Evolve Dammit]

5. Another one under the bus. Outside of "family" who does the mob boss "Done the Con" care about?

[Thekaspervote]

6. Mitch.... the politician we all love to hate..having said that my money is on mitch

Dotard...once again, out his league

[Freedomofspeech]

7. Somebody wrote that for the orange monster.

I just want to never hear from him again.

[LuvLoogie]

18. Yeah. Sounds like Stephen Miller.

Or Jason Miller, or Don Jr. even.

[Stuart G]

10. Thanks for posting K and R

[riversedge]

11. Trump...."took a swipe at Mr. McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, who worked for the Trump administration

oh. oh. This is very personal. Mitch will NOT like this at all.

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Donald Trump urges G.O.P. senators to find new leader in biting attack on Mitch McConnell.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/16/us/joe-biden-trump#donald-trump-urges-gop-senators-to-find-new-leader-in-biting-attack-on-mitch-mcconnell




........... While Mr. McConnell has faulted the former president for the party’s losses last month in both U.S. Senate races in Georgia, Mr. Trump maintained that it was because Republican voters were angry that the party’s officials did not do more to address his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.

Mr. Trump claimed credit for Mr. McConnell’s victory in his own Senate race last year, and took a swipe at Mr. McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, who worked for the Trump administration as the transportation secretary.

“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,” Mr. Trump said.

“He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our country,” Mr. Trump said, adding that “where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First.”............................

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[Orrex]

14. No way in hell did Mr Terrifically Tremendous write that statement

[Hip2bSquare]

15. Donny has a sad...

HA...tiny hands may never learn who really played the role of president over the last four years.

And 'dour' seriously...there is no way he came up with that word.

[wiggs]

16. Headline is wrong, which is half the problem. Should be: 'Bitter former president once again acts

like a spoiled toddler, pisses all over minority leader in attempt to grab headlines'

[dchill]

17. Fuck Trump and the whores he rode in on.

[JohnnyRingo]

19. McConnell gave that speech for the history books.

He voted to acquit for the red meat voters of Virginia.
Can he have it both ways?
From now on, Mitch will claim Trump only got off on a constitutional technicality. He wishes he could have voted to impeach.

That McConnell thinks he needs to be on the record as saying Trump is guilty, tells you all you need to know about Donald Trump's future.

[AirmensMom]

20. I really don't care, do you?

They’re both devil spawn and I can’t wait for the day we never have to hear their names again. Who cares if they’re being awful to each other? They’ve been awful to everyone else.

[DesertRat]

21. "dour" "sullen"? No way DT wrote that

[Evolve Dammit]

23. good point. I believe you are correct. Wonder how little of what he spewed was actually hand-made?

[LudwigPastorius]

22. Everyone knew this was coming except, apparently, McConnell.

That's what I don't understand. Trump was going to ream McConnell anyway after his post-impeachment statement. So, why not vote, and find more Senate GOPers to vote, to politically castrate Trump by convicting him?

Mitch tried to play it both ways and only fucked himself. He forgot that Trump is a mob boss. Any perceived disloyalty, even on the heels of voting to acquit, makes you persona non grata.

[sakabatou]

24. So will the headlines finally say "GOP in disarray?"

[iluvtennis]

25. trump said: "[MCConnell is]a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack"-- wow, what projection. nt

[packman]

26. Words coming from Trump that makes you want to throw up in your mouth

"We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership."

[marble falls]

27. Bwaaaaaaaa! Any chance they'll duel? ...

[Submariner]

28. Mitch is not unsmiling

He had a wide smile the day he told the country he would do everything he could to make Obama a one term president. It was a nasty racist smile, but still a smile.

[jcgoldie]

29. OK so I have to admit...

...this is sort of fucking HILARIOUS!

[lastlib]

30. I LOVE the smell of republiQan bloodletting in the morning!.....

(....and noon....and evening.... and midnight.....!)

"Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again," Trump said in the statement. "He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country..."

Only time in my life I have ever (or WILL ever) agree with a statement by the Shitgibbon.

"We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership."

So why the hell did anybody vote for YOU, you stoopid, ugly, immoral, evil, thoughtless, inconsiderate, vile trainload of diarrheic whale-shit??!?

[Warpy]

31. It's the only time I've ever agreed with Dumdum about anything

but Dumdum has yet to realize that as horrid as Mitch is, he's worse.

I imagine there are a lot of other poison pen letters out there by now (loser's gotta have a hobby) and that Pence likely topped the list.

[SWBTATTReg]

32. Rats eating each other. How appropriate.

[mysteryowl]

33. the only reason I opened this tread was to say

I don't care what he has to say about anything, ever again!!!

The only posts I will read about him are the ones he is being sued or indicted.

the end.

[DonCoquixote]

34. I canot feel sorry for Mitch, but

Long after trump and he are begin forced to be golf caddies at Satan's golf course, the damage those three Supreme Court picks will keep pouring into the nation's veins, especially as it will give the Magats their hopes of banning Gay Marriage and Abortion rights. Remember that when Mitch does his pity me act, he may very well have cut some fatal wounds into the nation.

That begin said, the fact that Trump never changed, and that once again, his response to his failure is to throw someone under the bus is predictable. Trump will forget that Mitch could have, indeed should have, taken advantage of two impeachment chances to dump him.

Side note: If the Trump presidency was submitted as fiction to any publishing house, it would be rejected. Even in Marvel comics, the villains eventual;ly have to have some moment to question "what have I done?" Bottom line, Trump will dies exactly as he lived, and be none the wiser.

[brush]

35. ""Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack,..."

We all know trump didn't write that.

"Dour"?

Please, trump doesn't know what it means, much less how to pronounce it. And surprisingly, most cable hosts and news readers don't know either that "dour" rhymes with "tour" not with "sour".

[myohmy2]

37. ain't that something...

...the turtle saves his sorry ass and trump fucks him...

"Trump asserted that the Kentucky Republican's shortcomings had contributed to the party's loss of the Senate majority,"

...everybody knows trump is the main cause of the decline of the Republican Party in America...trump's fascist behavior, analysis, lack of loyalty, lies and revisionist history is astounding...and his ability to foment division, insurrection and revolution unprecedented...

...but 3/4's of the pukes still love him and want to be joined at the hip...

...and that's a good thing...

[efhmc]

39. Wondering who actually wrote that.