Trump slams McConnell as ‘disloyal sleazebag’

Former US President Donald Trump slammed Republican Senate Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell for failing to prevent what he has called the theft of the 2020 election and described him as a “disloyal sleazebag” despite the recent victories McConnell helped secure for Trump’s legacy.

“Is this the same Mitch McConnell who was losing big in Kentucky, and came to the White House to BEG me for an Endorsement and help? Without me he would have lost in a landslide. A disloyal sleaze bag!” Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media platform. 

Trump was referring to the 2020 election when McConnell faced his Democratic challenger Amy McGrath. McConnell wound up winning a seventh Senate term by a margin of nearly 20 points.

Trump has previously accused McConnell of doing “nothing to fight for his constituents and stop the most fraudulent election in American history,” in which Joe Biden was declared the winner.   

In response, McConnell, a Republican who was called an “Old Crow” by Trump, denounced the Republican National Committee (RNC) that called the events surrounding January 6, 2021 "legitimate political discourse."

On January 6, 2021, Trump supporters occupied the US Capitol while lawmakers were in the process of reviewing the certification of state electors which indicated Biden's victory. Some Trump supporters had hoped that this process could have resulted in some of the electors being disqualified, thus overturning the outcome of the presidential election.

It is claimed by some that the demonstrators were infiltrated and incited by provocateurs from US intelligence agencies, who orchestrated the “false flag operation” in order to get rid of Trump.

Some among the crowd clashed with police, and some made threats to beat up a number of Democratic lawmakers. Some also inflicted damage on parts of the Capitol building.

Trump’s attack on the GOP leader came only a week after Democrats formally abandoned their plans to reverse the 2017 tax cuts, one of Trump’s biggest domestic accomplishments. 

McConnell stressed of preserving Trump’s tax cuts at a press conference on Tuesday. 

“One day we think they’re going to leave taxes alone, which of course would preserve the 2017 tax bill, the next day they’re not so sure,” McConnell said of Democrats’ plans to move a budget reconciliation package. 

On Friday, Trump attacked the work of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection at a rally supporting several candidates in Arizona.

Trump has repeatedly denounced Pence for refusing to attempt to overturn the results of the disputed 2020 presidential election.

The US Congress has been holding hearings on the January 6, 2021 protest march on the Capitol when thousands of people marched against the certification of the November 2020 election which placed Biden in office as the current US president.

Trump pressured Pence to overturn his 2020 election defeat, US House panel hears

Trump pressured his vice president, Mike Pence, to overturn his 2020 election defeat, aides to Pence told the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021 protest march on the Capitol .

The nine-member Democratic-led House of Representatives select committee’s public hearings intends to put up a case against Trump that he was responsible for the January 6 violence, starting with knowingly spreading lies around the election, seeking to overturn the results, assembling the mob in the Capitol and failing to act to stop the violence.

The committee is trying to build a case that Trump's efforts to overturn his defeat amounted to illegal conduct, far beyond normal politics.

Trump on Friday slammed members of the committee, specifically Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), as well.

He said what the “corrupt establishment” is doing to him is about preserving their power. He said his opponents will damage him in any way they can.

Trump also criticized Arizona state House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R), who testified at a January 6 committee hearing last month.

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