Speaking from the White House in a press conference, President Trump ended up commenting on how horrible the RINOs are and who the two big hurdles are for getting the SAVE America Act passed, pointing his finger squarely at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
Sounding off on McConnell with a vengeance during the press conference after being asked if he thinks there is enough support for the SAVE America Act to get it rammed through Congress, the president said, I mean, any Republican that voted against it would be McConnell. He’s an angry man, he, you know, got thrown out of his position, angry guy.”
Continuing by noting that McConnell never did much of note, the president then said, “You know, he should be very thankful to me, because if I didn’t win, he wouldn’t have gotten to a point, I appointed the judges, he didn’t. He gets credit for appointing judges. He didn’t appoint anybody. I did. You know how I did? I won the election, and then I picked judges.”
Still not done on the judges point, the president added that the “judges ended up getting approved, and they said, ‘Oh, didn’t he do a good job?’ He didn’t do a good job. What the hell did he do? I won the election.” Then, turning from the past to the present, the president said, “He’s an angry man who’s very disloyal to John Thune. John Thune is a good man, he was a loyal worker for Mitch McConnell. He worked for Mitch McConnell. He worked very hard. He was very loyal to him. I disagreed with him a lot, because Mitch McConnell gave so much money to Democrats. He gave them money. I had to go get the wall money from the military. I just took it out of the military, because that guy wouldn’t do anything.”
Then, skewering McConnell yet further, he said, “Mitch McConnell’s a bad guy…I thought he was lousy at his job, lousy at his job, but when they give him the only thing they give him a lot of credit for judges, but I’m the one that got the judges, you know why I won the election. If I didn’t win the election, he wouldn’t have had any judges.”
A bit later, he turned to dropping the hammer on Murkowski, saying, “You have him, you have Murkowski. I’ve done so much for Murkowski. You had the governor right here. Governor, have I done a lot for Alaska? Is there anybody done more for Alaska than me?” He added, “Murkowski is terrible, terrible to us, terrible to the country.”
The president then explained, “And you know, I almost feel guilty. I do more, probably done more for Alaska than any other state, not because of her, because it’s the right thing to do. She’s just an impediment, but she’s there. She probably will be a negative vote.”
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Concluding by getting in a jab at Sen. Rand Paul, saying, “You have a couple of other.. I think Rand Paul’s come a long way. Let’s see what happens. I think Rand Paul likes SAVE America, so because Rand Paul’s usually a negative vote, but I think he likes SAVE America, so that’s good. I like Rand Paul, but you know, I hope he votes for us.”
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