The Wall Street Journal shot back at former President Donald Trump for a statement in which he chastised its editorial board over a column critiquing his CPAC speech and suggesting that he is losing power in the Republican Party.
The response from the newspaper on Thursday came shortly after Trump questioned whether the Wall Street Journal's typically conservative opinion side has any remaining influence.
“The Wall Street Journal editorial page continues, knowingly, to fight for globalist policies such as bad trade deals, open borders, and endless wars that favor other countries and sell out our great American workers, and they fight for RINOS that have so badly hurt the Republican Party,” Trump said. “That’s where they are, and that’s where they will always be. Fortunately, nobody cares much about the Wall Street Journal editorial anymore.”
The Wall Street Journal clapped back by blaming Trump for how the Republican Party lost both the House and Senate to Democrats during his administration. The editorial board also quipped, "For someone who says we don’t matter, [Trump] sure spends a lot of time reading and responding to us."
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"Losing to Joe Biden of all people, and by 7.1 million votes as an incumbent President, must be painful," the Wall Street Journal added. "Counseling could be in order. Any good analyst will explain that the first step toward recovery is to accept reality. The same applies to Republican voters who want to win back Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024."
The editorial board also narrowed its focus on how Republicans lost two U.S. Senate seats in a January special election, resulting in a 50-50 control makeup in the Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaking vote.
"What really seems to rankle the most famous resident of Mar-a-Lago isn’t his caricature of our policy differences," the Wall Street Journal wrote. "It’s that we recognize the reality that Mr. Trump is the main reason Republicans lost two Georgia Senate races in January and thus the Senate majority. Mr. Trump refuses to take responsibility for those defeats, contrary to all evidence."
The editorial board continued: "Mr. Trump’s statement blames the Georgia losses on GOP Gov. Brian Kemp and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell. His rap on Mr. Kemp is that he didn’t fight hard enough to overturn the President’s loss of the state in November, a claim Mr. Trump turned into his main campaign theme before the Georgia Senate elections on Jan. 5."
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The Wall Street Journal also railed against the former president for blaming then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for a lack of stimulus checks greater than $600 for eligible U.S. residents during the coronavirus pandemic. The editorial board said Trump's claim "rewrites history" and insisted "he didn’t endorse the $2,000 checks until Dec. 22, giving Democrats a sword against the two GOP Senate candidates who had endorsed $600."
Trump's press team did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
