Former President Donald Trump stole headlines late Tuesday after an exclusive interview on Fox News went viral.
As usual, the former president wasn’t shy about his opinion.
He spoke up on how he felt about a numerous host of topics, one of which included his honest feelings about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Trump blamed McConnell for the two major losses Republicans suffered in Georgia, which ultimately saw the Democrats shift the state purple and also gain the Senate majority by way of a 50-50 tie, with Vice President Kamala Harris as the deciding tiebreaker.
According to the former president, McConnell is to blame for all of this.
“He lost those two seats,” he told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo.
“It is such a shame that happened. Everything you have been talking about on your show today is affected by those two seats,” he said. “Those two seats are devastating that we lost and the Republicans frankly were fighting for $600 versus $2,000 and that was the only ad that the Democrats took.”
“That was a disaster,” he added. “Mitch McConnell made a tremendous mistake.”
Former President Trump blames Sen. Mitch McConnell for losing the Senate seats in Georgia:
"Republicans were fighting for $600 vs. $2,000… Mitch McConnell made a tremendous mistake. He lost those two seats." pic.twitter.com/ljEVer6Cys
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 16, 2021
Though the former president remains censored on various social media channels, he has chosen his spots in the media carefully, particularly on Fox News in the aftermath of his presidency. Last month he appeared on “Hannity” to discuss Rush Limbaugh’s death and the conservative legacy he left behind.
Tuesday, he struck a completely different tone.
Trump’s harsh words this week were telling, and perhaps reflective of a relationship that has soured completely.
McConnell went on record supporting a 2nd impeachment trial of the president, and afterward blamed him for the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Since then he backtracked a fair bit. He said that, if Trump were the 2024 GOP presidential candidate, he’d be supportive no matter what.
“The nominee of the party?” McConnell said when asked about the possibility of a Trump 2024 campaign. “Absolutely.”
But those words don’t seem to have gotten him the good graces of Trump.
Not yet, anyway.
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