Former President Donald Trump sent a short message to supporters from his Save America PAC on Wednesday that baffled outside observers.
The 45th president’s message, sent in a message to the PAC’s email list, was short and to the point.
“BULLIES NEVER FIGHT!”
Without context, the message seems mysterious or even nonsensical.
But observers noted the timing of the email: Just hours after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he was resigning his position in the face of numerous sexual assault and harassment charges.
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"BULLIES NEVER FIGHT!" – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/XfWimziJYG
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) August 11, 2021
It could also be directed at another political foe of Trump’s — one within his own party.
The former president has also been vocal recently about the bipartisan infrastructure plan that passed the Senate with a 69-30 vote this week, directly much of his anger at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“This is not an infrastructure bill, this is the beginning of the Green New Deal. The bill I proposed, which Mitch McConnell couldn’t do anything with, was pure infrastructure. I want what is best for America, not what’s best for the Communist Democrat Party,” Trump wrote on Sunday.
“This will be a big victory for the Democrats and will be used against Republicans in the upcoming elections. Schumer is using the threat of ‘we can do it the hard way or do it the easy way’ and keeping people in town. McConnell never did that on a real infrastructure bill.”
“Hopefully, the House will be much stronger than the Senate.”
In a follow-up statement after the bill passed on Tuesday, Trump again took a shot at McConnell.
“Nobody will ever understand why Mitch McConnell allowed this non-infrastructure bill to be passed. He has given up all of his leverage for the big whopper of a bill that will follow.”
“I have quietly said for years that Mitch McConnell is the most overrated man in politics—now I don’t have to be quiet anymore,” Trump wrote. “He is working so hard to give Biden a victory, now they’ll go for the big one, including the biggest tax increases in the history of our Country.”
McConnell and 18 other Republican senators voted with all 50 Democrats in the Senate to pass the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that includes a huge $550 billion in new spending.
It is the largest infrastructure bill in decades.
The Horn editorial team