By Evaristo Lara
President Donald Trump attacked veteran conservative Mitch McConnell, calling his job as a senator terrible.
During a meeting with the press held in the Oval Office, The head of the nation acknowledged being unhappy with the position taken by the 84-year-old legislator by opposing the approval of a third reconciliation budget package to use at least $200 billion dollars from supplementary funds in the war against Iran.
“McConnell is an angry man. You know, they fired him from his position. [como líder republicano del Senado]. He’s an angry guy. “He should be very grateful to me because if I hadn’t won, he wouldn’t have gotten to this point,” he said.
Trump even took credit for the appointment of judges, subtracting all credit from the senator from Kentucky as he had been preaching.
“He is credited with appointing judges, but he did not appoint anyone. I did it. I won the elections and then I chose the judgesand the judges ended up being approved and saying, ‘Oh wow, what a great job he did!’ He didn’t do a good job. What the hell did he do? I won the elections! If he had not achieved it, he would not have had any judge,” he stressed.
In addition, the New York magnate described McConnell as someone disloyal to John Thune, Senate majority leader and who replaced him as Republican head of the upper chamber.
“He is an angry and very disloyal man.. John Thune was a loyal worker for Mitch McConnell. He worked very hard. “He was very loyal,” he stressed.
Trump also criticized the long-serving congressman for having supported the Democrats with resources that would have facilitated the construction of the border wall during his first stage at the helm of the White House.
“I strongly disagree with him. He gave a lot of money to the Democrats. I had to get money from the army for the wall [fronterizo]. I simply took him out of the army because that guy didn’t do anything,” he emphasized.
It should be noted that McConnell will retire before the new Congress begins in January and thus put an end to the disagreements that arose with Trump.
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