Opinion
Weeks in the past, Donald Trump Jr. described Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as a “pro-amnesty turtle.” Yesterday, throughout a personal White Home assembly discussing the Senate’s $95 billion international assist invoice, McConnell proved him proper.
Jake Sherman, a reporter for Punchbowl Information, described the assembly as a “big four” of congressional leaders – McConnell, Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) – debating the international assist invoice.
Sherman describes it as “the world vs. Mike Johnson” and feedback by McConnell present that he’s completely consistent with his Democrat counterparts in placing Ukraine and Israel first whereas letting the safety of People develop into an afterthought.
McConnell’s feedback, as reported by Sherman, are infuriatingly anti-American.
“McConnell told Johnson that the Senate’s foreign aid bill is the only game in town, time is of the essence,” the reporter instructed his followers on X, the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter.
“Johnson talked about the border, but McConnell told him to put the border aside and focus on the (supplemental spending bill),” he added.
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McConnell’s Priorities Are Clear
It’s onerous to disagree with Sherman’s take that Johnson is up towards three males in that “big four” situation. McConnell’s feedback are a transparent indication that he has unabashedly sided with Schumer and Jeffries.
Suggesting a international assist invoice is “the only game in town” and to “put the border aside” are feedback almost indiscernible from any far-left Democrat.
Precise conservatives on X had been, to place it mildly, dismayed with McConnell’s dancing like a educated monkey for the Democrat social gathering and Ukraine.
Fox Information contributor Mollie Hemingway described his feedback as proof of a “horrific lack of leadership or concern for America.”
Former aide to President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, argued that McConnell and the GOP need the border open as a lot because the Democrats do.
“That’s in your face. They don’t care,” Bannon stated. “Not only do they not care, they want it opened. It’s working for the donor class.”
Bannon: @LeaderMcConnell’s dismissive of @SpeakerJohnson — no deal with the border simply on Ukraine/supplemental. That’s in your face. They don’t care. Not solely do they not care, they need it opened. It’s working for the donor class. https://t.co/XJvnaXsZJc pic.twitter.com/kGbI2e1DYI
— Grace Chong 🇺🇸 (@gc22gc) February 27, 2024
A livid Senator Rand Paul additionally lambasted McConnell: “Leadership of BOTH parties supports Ukraine first, America last!”
That’s abundantly clear.
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Ukraine Is The Most Vital Factor In The World To Him
It’s not as if McConnell hasn’t been telegraphing his priorities for a while now. Priorities that put America on the again burner whereas he tends to his child in Ukraine.
Funding the battle effort in Ukraine has been his high precedence, interval, finish of story, for properly over a 12 months now.
He stated as a lot in an interview with Fox Information host Dana Perino by which he instructed he would focus his time on “explain(ing) to the American people that defeating the Russians in Ukraine is the single most important event going on in the world right now.”
NEW – McConnell: “Defeating the Russians in Ukraine is the single most important event going on in the world right now.”pic.twitter.com/H8RkVKAhno
— Disclose.television (@disclosetv) February 16, 2023
Schumer instructed reporters that “McConnell was the lead speaker in saying we needed to do Ukraine” in the course of the personal assembly on the White Home on Tuesday.
Politico experiences that McConnell “views the fight for Ukraine aid as crucial to his 40-year Senate legacy.”
Think about spending 4 a long time in Congress and your total legacy – in your individual thoughts – hinges on what you probably did to assist Ukraine, not what you’ve achieved to assist the American individuals.
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