Trump suggests Democrats have ‘a thing’ for Mitch McConnell as he insists Senate GOP leader isn’t doing enough to fight back against his mounting legal troubles
Trump suggests Democrats have ‘a thing’ for Mitch McConnell as he insists Senate GOP leader isn’t doing enough to fight back against his mounting legal troubles
- Trump told a crowd the three charges handed to him as the leading GOP 2024 candidate by the Justice Department are election interference
- “These guys, what they’re doing with the election interference and the Senate needs to stand up and do something. The House does a lot of things,” Trump said
- “I’m telling you Lindsey, they’ve got something on Mitch McConnell. He can’t do this. They got something on Mitch McConnell’
Former President Trump suggested the Democrats have “a thing” with Mitch McConnell because the Senate Majority Leader is not doing enough to fight back against the Justice Department.
Trump told a crowd that the three charges handed to him as the leading GOP 2024 candidate by the Justice Department are election interference. He demanded Republican senators defend him.
“These guys, what they’re doing with the election interference and the Senate needs to stand up and do something. The House does a lot of things,” Trump said Saturday night at the South Carolina Republican Party’s 56th annual Silver Elephant Gala.
“The Senate below, perhaps the worst leader in the history of the country running the Senate, Mitch McConnell needs to stand up and do something.”
Trump suggested the Democrats have “a thing” with Mitch McConnell because the Senate Majority Leader isn’t doing enough to fight back against the DOJ
But the Republican from Kentucky does not run the Senate – the Democrats hold power in the upper chamber.
“You (South Carolina) got some good ones, and that guy over there,” he said, pointing to South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham.
“He works hard, but they need a lot of other people and they need to stop handing out money every time,” Trump said, blaming McConnell for the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill passed last December.
The former president then looked at Graham as she suspected that liberals must have dirt on McConnell.
“I’m telling you Lindsey, they’ve got something on Mitch McConnell. He can’t do this. They have something on Mitch McConnell. It’s terrible what is happening to that man. They must leave.’
McConnell and Trump had a close working relationship during the Trump presidency, with the Senate GOP leader helping to push through more than 300 judicial confirmations of the president, including three Supreme Court justices.
“The Senate below, perhaps the worst leader in the history of the country running the Senate, Mitch McConnell needs to stand up and do something,” Trump said.
But their relationship soured over Trump’s insistence that the 2020 election was stolen and his actions around Jan. 6.
Trump recently urged Senate Republicans to replace McConnell, 81, after he froze in the middle of a press conference.
Meanwhile, the Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means committees in the House are working together to investigate the deals made by the Biden family business.
Last week, Trump pleaded not guilty to the third charge, which charges him with conspiracy to spread lies about the 2020 election. Another charge concerns his handling of classified documents and another relates to his hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
After McConnell voted to acquit Trump during the Jan. 6 impeachment trial, he suggested the former president could face criminal charges in the future.
“He hasn’t gotten away with anything—not yet,” McConnell vowed. “We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil suits. And former presidents are not immune from accountability from either.”