Trump blasts McConnell over claims in book about election
Former
President Trump on Monday lashed out at Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), incensed by a forthcoming book that reports McConnell urged former Attorney General
William Barr to push back on Trump's falsehoods after November's election.
Trump implied that had McConnell intervened to block the certification of
President Biden's electoral votes, the Senate GOP leader would not be in a position where he is navigating bipartisan infrastructure talks.
"Had Mitch McConnell fought for the Presidency like he should have, there would right now be Presidential Vetoes on all of the phased Legislation that he has proven to be incapable of stopping," Trump said in a Monday statement, reiterating his belief that Republicans lost both Senate runoff races in Georgia in January because of McConnell.
"He never fought for the White House and blew it for the Country," Trump said. "Too bad I backed him in Kentucky, he would have been primaried and lost!"
Barr told Karl that McConnell, at the time the Senate majority leader, had urged him to push back against Trump's falsehoods, worrying that Trump's rhetoric would cost the GOP in January's Senate runoff elections in Georgia. Democrats went on to win both races and control of the Senate as a result.
"Now it was revealed that Barr was being pushed to tell lies about the election by Mitch McConnell, another beauty, who was worried about damaging the Republicans chances in the Georgia runoff," Trump said in a statement late Sunday. "What really damaged the Senate Republicans was allowing their races to be rigged and stolen, and worse, the American people to no longer believe their vote matters because spineless RINOs like Bill Barr and Mitch McConnell did nothing."
Former President Trump on Monday lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), incensed by a forthcoming book that reports McConnell urged former Attorney General William Barr …
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