Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of being “a pawn for the Democrats” and called on Republicans to remove him as Senate minority leader “immediately.”
In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump shared an article alleging McConnell and his wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, have problematic ties to China, and cited McConnell’s failure to stop the Inflation Reduction Act as reasons for his immediate ouster.
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“The Democrats have Mitch McConnell and his lovely wife, Elaine ‘Coco’ Chao, over a barrel,” Trump said in the post on Wednesday, adding that the couple “will never be prosecuted” as long as the Republican leader in the Senate “continues to give the Radical Left the Trillions and Trillions of Dollars that they constantly DEMAND.”
Chao is among the former Trump administration officials reportedly cooperating with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. She tendered her resignation notice to Trump the day after rioters stormed the Capitol.
In his post, Trump fumed that McConnell didn’t do more, such as “use the ‘Debt Ceiling Card,'” to stop the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act earlier this month.
“Mitch McConnell is not an Opposition Leader, he is a pawn for the Democrats to get whatever they want,” Trump said. “He is afraid of them, and will not do what has to be done. A new Republican Leader in the Senate should be picked immediately!”
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After the passage of the sweeping social spending and green energy bill earlier this month, which was passed through a simple majority vote as part of the budget reconciliation process, McConnell blasted Democrats and the legislation.
“Democrats’ response to the recession they caused is giant job-killing tax hikes and doubling the IRS,” McConnell said in a statement on Aug. 7, after the bill’s passage. “Democrats’ response to the energy crisis they’ve exacerbated is a war on American fossil fuel to fund Green New Deal giveaways for their rich friends. And their response to the runaway inflation they’ve created is a bill that experts say will not meaningfully cut inflation at all.”
