A picture speaks a thousand words. For anyone looking at recent pics of Mitch McConnell – America’s former Senate majority leader, now minority leader after the 2020 elections – you know this is not someone in the highest spirits.
Last week, former President Trump’s team released a letter Trump had sent McConnell, whom he called “dour, sullen, and an unsmiling political hack.”
The New York Times reported that McConnell did not respond to the statement but he has “left little mystery about his contempt for the former president.” The paper, citing a person close to Trump, reported that the initial version of the letter was even tougher than the one ultimately released.
Trump has long complained that Republican leadership did not do enough to support his claim of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. And the 6 January D.C. rally – where a group of Trump supporters who believed the election was stolen stormed the Capitol building – added another crisis within the Republican Party between Trump backers and those who seek to return the party to its pre-Trump days.
While McConnell voted to acquit Trump during his second impeachment trial because he believed impeaching someone who has already left office is unconstitutional, he declared there “is no question, none, that president Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day.” McConnell said,
“No question about it… The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president. And having the belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet earth.”
Trump’s letter said the Republican Party “can never again be respected or strong with political ‘leaders’ like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business-as-usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader and it will only get worse.”
Trump said McConnell is weak on China and he has “no credibility” on the subject due to his family’s business ties. Vanity Fair reported that Elaine Chao, McConnell’s wife who served as the Transportation Secretary under Trump, has an influential Chinese family. Her father started a “shipping, trading, and finance company” that is now run by her sister. The company is based in New York, and it is reported that 72 percent of its material is shipped to China, which “helps feed” Beijing’s “industrial machine.”
The Times reported McConnell usually calls it racist when Democrats attack his wife over her ties to Beijing.
TREND FORECAST: In our 12 January article, “DEMOCRATS: IMPEACH TRUMP,” we forecast this is the beginning of the formation of a new political party to replace the failing Republican Party. A 15 February Gallop poll confirmed our forecast, showing that a record-high 63 percent of Republicans favor a third party. The poll also showed:
“Americans’ desire for a third party has ticked up since last fall and now sits at a high in Gallup’s trend. Sixty-two percent of U.S. adults say the ‘parties do such a poor job representing the American people that a third party is needed,’ an increase from 57% in September.”
Furthermore, just 33 percent of Americans believe the two establishment political parties adequately represent the public.
Among the platforms of a new party will be anti-vax, anti-tax, anti-immigrant, anti-war, anti-Big Brother.
The End
Yesterday, The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a final blow to Donald Trump and his Republican supporters by rejecting eight appeals that contested the 2020 presidential election.
TREND FORECAST: As we had forecast, the political future of Donald Trump is over. He will spend much of his time attempting to salvage his business interests and fight a series of lawsuits that have been filed against him.
Going from bad to worse, yesterday, the Supreme Court gave the OK to a New York prosecutor to obtain Mr. Trump’s tax returns.
