Former President Donald Trump responded to reports that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell attempted to block him from attending President Joe Biden’s inauguration, saying that he never had plans to attend.
This came in response to reporting from Jonathan Karl, chief Washington correspondent for ABC News, that then-Majority Leader McConnell attempted to draft a letter with top congressional leaders telling Trump that he was not invited to the inauguration. McConnell was unable to get that letter signed.
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“From Election Day, November 3rd, the day I realized that the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged, I would never have agreed to go to Joe Biden’s Inauguration. This decision was mine, and mine alone,” Trump said.
McConnell wanted to disinvite Trump because he did not want him to have another chance to disrupt the peaceful transition of power, according to Karl. But his alleged efforts ultimately fell apart because Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy opposed the letter, arguing it would be a moment of unity to have Trump attend the inauguration, Karl reported.
At the time, Biden invited Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, to the inauguration but said it was “good” that Trump was not attending.
In his statement, Trump accused McConnell of doing nothing to change the outcome of the election and of working on deals with China for “his wife and family.”
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Trump has repeatedly taken aim at McConnell in his press releases. On Nov. 13, for example, he blasted McConnell for supporting the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
