After Senate Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attacked former President Donald Trump in comments to the Associated Press’ Michael Tackett for his upcoming biography, “The Price of Power,” Utah’s Senator Mike Lee, a Trump ally and Republican, hammered Sen. McConnell for giving the left more ammunition and potentially demoralizing Republican voters just days before the election.
In his comments to Tackett, which CNN obtained and published ahead of the biography’s release, Sen. McConnell sounded off on Trump and accused him of all manner of things meant to sound awful. At one point, for example, he said, CNN reports, “I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the Republican Party from what Ronald Reagan viewed, and he wouldn’t recognize today.”
Continuing, Sen. McConnell reportedly added, “Trump is appealing to people who haven’t been as successful as other people and providing an excuse for that, that these more successful people have somehow been cheated, and you don’t deserve to think of yourself as less successful because things haven’t been fair.”
Further, he said, CNN reports, that he and many others were happy to see Trump go in January of 2020: “Unfortunately, about half the Republicans in the country believe whatever he says. I think I’m pretty safe in saying it’s not just the Democrats who are counting the days until he leaves on January 20, but the Republicans as well.”
Additionally, McConnell said that it was right to impeach Trump: “I’m not at all conflicted about whether what the president did is an impeachable offense. I think it is. Urging an insurrection and people attacking the Capitol as a direct result … is about as close to an impeachable offense as you can imagine, with the possible exception of maybe being an agent for another country.” He added, “I don’t know whether you can make a conclusive argument that he’s directly responsible for them storming the Capitol, but I think it’s not in dispute that those folks would not have been here in the first place if he had not asked them to come and to disrupt the actual acceptance of the outcome of the election.”
That’s not all, according to CNN, Sen. McConnell also called the former president all manner of filthy things, saying that he is a “sleazeball” and a “narcissist.” He also reportedly claimed that former President Trump is “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” and claimed that he is “not very smart, irascible, nasty, just about every quality you would not want somebody to have.”
Sen. Mike Lee obliterated McConnell after the explosive comments came out. Slamming the Senate Minority Leader, he said, weighing in on X, “McConnell’s attacks on Donald Trump & Rick Scott are indefensible.” He continued, “Those running for Senate GOP leadership posts need to weigh in on this & commit never to sabotage Republican candidates & colleagues—particularly those who are less than two weeks away from a close election.”
Continuing, Sen. Mike Lee argued that this is the sort of thing that future GOP senators need to be clear on, saying, “We must have clarity from the candidates running to replace McConnell on where they stand on these attacks. They must be clear on how they plan to lead the conference, and on the role of its members.”
He then added that the country has seen far too much betrayal and backstabbing from GOP turncoats in the Senate, writing, “The Senate Republican leader is supposed to help Republicans, not undermine them. Sadly, we’ve had too much of the latter. That must end now.” He further noted, “Remember: McConnell’s superpac has withheld campaign support from Ted Cruz and Rick Scott this election season, an incomprehensible move for a Senate GOP “strong leader” who wants to keep Texas and Florida and gain a majority in the Senate.”
Watch Sen. Lee slam McConnell back in February here:
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