Former President Donald Trump unveiled a new series of insults against Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as he slammed Senate Minority Leader once again on Wednesday for supporting President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill.
In an invective-filled rant, ramped up the level of vitriol against the GOP leader by slapping a series of new schoolyard nicknames for McConnell, including “broken”, “stupid”, “old crow” and a “fool.” The former president also accused McConnell of “incompetence” for voting for the infrastructure bill along with 18 other Senate Republicans and 13 House Republicans.
“McConnell is a fool and he damn well better stop their ‘Dream of Communism Bill’ and keep his Senators in line, or he should resign now, something he should have done a long time ago. Use the Debt Ceiling like it should have been used, you Old Broken Crow, to do so would hurt our Country far less than this horrible Bill,” Trump declared in a rage-filled statement released through his Save America PAC.
Trump’s Wednesday attack is the latest shot in a stream of verbal assaults leveled at McConnell since the GOP leader excoriated Trump on the Senate floor for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.
In his statement, Trump argued that the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure package is setting the stage for the larger social spending plan, the Build Back Better Act, and insisted that that holding the nation’s credit rating hostage and threatening the federal government’s ability to pay its debts could have brought Biden’s agenda to a halt.
“This was all allowed by Mitch McConnell’s incompetence and now I understand that a couple Republican Senators may get on board so that they can have yet another and even bigger victory, for the Democrats, while at the same time ensuring massive Inflation and the destruction of our Country as we know it,” Trump ranted.
“Mitch McConnell couldn’t stop the first Bill so 19 Senators, including himself, joined in. That’s what he does—if you can’t beat them, join them. If he wasn’t so stupid and didn’t give the two-month extension, he could have stopped it all. Now he and his RINO friends will allow a much bigger and far worse Bill to pass, ruining our Country while giving the Democrats a great political lift, all at the same time,” Trump vented.
McConnell has shrugged off Trump’s “Old Crow” nickname before, joking that it’s a reference to his favorite historical Senate figure, former Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky.
“Actually, it’s quite an honor. Old Crow is Henry Clay’s favorite bourbon,” he said, according to The Hill.
Read Trump’s full statement below:
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President Donald J. Trump:
“When the Broken Old Crow, Mitch McConnell, agreed to a two-month extension, he allowed the Democrats to get their act together and pass the $1.2 Trillion “Non-Infrastructure” Green New Deal Bill… pic.twitter.com/spMOHC0mlo
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) November 17, 2021
