Mitch McConnell just sold out Donald Trump
Mitch McConnell is a fairly savvy political villain, but even he has his limits when it comes to what he can pull off. With Donald Trump’s poll numbers in freefall, McConnell is in danger of being forced to decide whether to selfishly throw Trump under the bus in order to try to salvage his own prospects of reelection.
Today we got a sign of which way McConnell is leaning. When he introduced the Republican Senate economic relief bill, Palmer Report pointed out that it was really just a starting point; McConnell knows he’ll have to meet Speaker Nancy Pelosi somewhere in the middle in order to get anything passed into law. That means a lot of the most corrupt things McConnell has included in his bill will have to go.
One of those corrupt provisions would fund a new FBI headquarters in a location that would just happen to benefit Donald Trump financially. Now that there’s pushback against this, Mitch McConnell is claiming that he somehow didn’t even know the provision was in his own bill, and insinuating that the Trump White House somehow slipped it in there without him knowing.
Yeah right. Mitch McConnell certainly knew what was in his own bill. But now that there’s pushback against his bill, Donald Trump’s for-profit scam is the very first thing that McConnell is throwing overboard. Not only is McConnell refusing to let Trump cash in, he’s making a point of painting Trump as the villain for having included it to begin with. If Trump’s numbers keep dropping, McConnell will keep selling out Trump like this. In the end, McConnell will do what’s best for McConnell, not what’s best for Trump.
