The senator resorted to childish finger-pointing when pressed about once calling Donald Trump “stupid” and a “despicable human being.”
“Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what J.D. Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him,” McConnell told theThe head-scratching statement resurfaced Vance’s old attacks on his running mate less than three weeks before Election Day.
Other not-so-nice comments Vance made about his running mate included him once referring to Trump as “cultural heroin” with a presidential campaign that was promising “the needle in America’s collective vein.” McConnell, 82, is probably right that his comments—recorded in a series of private “personal oral histories” he handed over to a biographer—aren’t as bad as what Vance had to say eight years ago. But the comments are still eyebrow-raising, especially coming from a politician who’s actively supported a Trump return to the White House this year.of Trump in March.
Donald Trump walks with Mitch McConnell, then the Senate Majority Leader, in 2016 shortly after Trump was first elected.“They’ve had just enough of the misrepresentations, the outright lies almost on a daily basis, and they fired him,” McConnell said in one of his diaries, according to the AP.
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