Graham: McConnell 'put a load
on Republicans' back' with
anti-Trump speech
Fox News,
by
Ron Blitzer
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
2/14/2021 1:39:59 PM
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for speaking out against former President Donald Trump after voting to acquit Trump at his impeachment trial.
Despite voting in Trump's favor, McConnell, R-Ky., blamed the former president for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Graham warned on "Fox News Sunday" that this will be used against Republicans as they try to retake control of Congress in 2022.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
dwa 2/14/2021 1:54:53 PM (No. 695849)
McConnell is one of the slimiest most corrupt Republicans in the Senate, and that is saying something. He has one focus, what is best for McConnell. If he was subject to a $40 million investigation run by 17 hyper partisan Democrats, he would be indicted and in prison, not the minority leader (and I use the term leader loosely). You can always count on McConnell to not be trusted. The only thing he has done is push judges through, but as we are seeing they seem to lose their conservative outlook one in position.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Italiano 2/14/2021 1:58:47 PM (No. 695854)
Nah, we were already gone.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 2/14/2021 2:10:12 PM (No. 695870)
Sometimes I really like Lindsay Graham. But not always.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Kutchk 2/14/2021 2:16:46 PM (No. 695874)
McConnell is the Minority Swamp Leader. Just another creature among the rest of them. Bring on the 2022 MAGA Party to vote all of these lizards out of their Chinese money sucking offices!!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/14/2021 2:17:39 PM (No. 695877)
Get him out. ASAP!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
artsy 2/14/2021 2:18:08 PM (No. 695878)
Trying to give Mitch the benefit of the doubt, my thought was that he traded the speech for enough votes by RINOS to acquit. He's a deal maker. The acquital will help the GOP more than his speech.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
artsy 2/14/2021 2:20:51 PM (No. 695881)
...more than his speech will hurt us.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
nina584 2/14/2021 2:22:08 PM (No. 695885)
McConnell lost control of the party to Trump. He thought with the impeachment he would gain it back. He has failed to comprehend this is not the loser party he once lead. This is a fighting party led by Trump !
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jobe 2/14/2021 2:22:54 PM (No. 695887)
It's good to see that good old 'Elastic Man' McConnell has retained his ability to take multiple positions on events, then try to defend and attack at the same time. I'll have nothing to do with the Republican Party until he is punished in some way for his disloyalty, stupidity, gutlessness, and a few more faults that I don't have time to list.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Mofongo 2/14/2021 2:23:20 PM (No. 695888)
I am out of the country but leaving the Republican Party at the first opportunity. DONE.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Yuban 2/14/2021 2:24:10 PM (No. 695889)
I wouldn't give Mitch the sweat off my...... chin..... let alone the benefit of a doubt.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TXknitter 2/14/2021 2:25:11 PM (No. 695890)
Of course #1 is correct IMO. Mitch’s own vindictive, unnecessary comments directed toward our former President Trump post-acquittal said it all. He has nothing but contempt for Trump voters. He is just as corrupt as Schumer only in different ways. He did not make any deal with RINOs - they were gonna do what they were gonna do. Some refused to vote for conviction afraid of MAGA voters back home. The hardcore RINOs are past caring about that.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
slipstik 2/14/2021 2:32:15 PM (No. 695899)
McConnell believes it is a bad thing to speak truth. He blames Trump for telling basic, unvarnished truth. Something is wrong with McConnell's thinking....OH, I KNOW, he's been in congress 40 years too long. The political class, otherwise known as "career politicians" live in their own little world and play in their own private playground...with our lives, yours and mine, as their game pieces. They care NOTHING for us, they only care for their own power and wealth acquisition. Mitch doesn't care if he leads or follows, as long as he STAYS IN THE SENATE.
"Retiring" from congress should be an oxymoron. Nobody should be there long enough to retire.
The corruption that pervades congress has seeped into every government organization right on down all the way to the stinking Post Office. The hijack of the election relied heavily on the Post Office. as a accomplice.
The FBI, CIA, SCOTUS, FISA, virtually every agency you can figure out the acronym for is subverted and corrupt, and BTW, can't be fixed. The rot goes too deep..
Trump threatened their game and they moved heaven, earth, and the cosmos to put him out. And in so doing, they also cast us aside like so much garbage.
We have lost our nation, because the political class and the tech oligarchy took it from us.
You tell me...where do we go from here??
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/14/2021 2:37:12 PM (No. 695901)
McConnell thinks Trump, who has had to do everything, should also defend McConnell, as McConnell is too weak to defend himself, and did not do his job in defending the Capitol, so whines that Trump should have. McConnell has to be replaced. The Republican Party cannot survive with a McConnell at the head.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Gallo3 2/14/2021 2:42:25 PM (No. 695905)
Mitch doesn't like The Donald because The Donald put him on a post.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/14/2021 2:52:14 PM (No. 695914)
Mitch spoke for the GOPe/UNIPARTY. His message was clear: The GOPe has done its last good deed for FPDT. He is now on his own, to accept quiet exile in Florida, or face the wrath of various government agencies, from New York City and state to the Federal government. To drive home the point is the almost simultaneous disclosure of some real estate refinancing deal. Shady or not, lawyering up costs money...FPDT knows it, his family knows it. Imagine Don, Jr. getting the Roger Stone treatment...don't think it cannot happen, or won't if circumstances present themselves.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/14/2021 2:55:37 PM (No. 695918)
This time I agree with Lindsey. What McConnell did was appalling. He is a traitorous old coot.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 2/14/2021 2:59:08 PM (No. 695926)
Duct tape his mouth shut
Quit Mitch
He’s a mumbling clown!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
TLCary 2/14/2021 3:11:43 PM (No. 695936)
... a hot steaming load.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 2/14/2021 3:14:22 PM (No. 695939)
Sounds like Mitch is bitter that he's not the leader of the GOP.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Nimby 2/14/2021 3:23:35 PM (No. 695943)
Maybe Lindsey should challenge McConnell and take over as the Minority leader?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/14/2021 3:24:08 PM (No. 695944)
No, Just get RID of Mitchie Turtle Boy...he's already sold out to the Chinese COMMUNISTS anyway!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/14/2021 3:30:43 PM (No. 695953)
McConnell put a load of something somewhere and the result will be the end of his career. Even before speaking out against Donald Trump he was working quietly against him. There will not be enough republicans left in 2022 to make any sort of difference.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 2/14/2021 3:43:44 PM (No. 695965)
Graham and McConnell are right where they want to be - in the minority. They can complain about democrat legislation and, in this case, complain amongst themselves and go back to their voters and tell them, "Look what I did. I stood up for conservatives" while losing everything - and slipping in some of their own big donor legislation.
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They'd better get rid of that load quick or they will lose rather than gain seats in 2022.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/14/2021 4:19:08 PM (No. 696014)
Joe Lieberman did much the same thing during the Dollar Bill Clinton senate trial.
The difference is that McConnell has done great damage to Republicans who are running for the House and Senate in 2022.
Shame on him.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 2/14/2021 4:29:27 PM (No. 696027)
No load IN my back.
McConnell's Chinese-ordered hate rolled off my back like water off of a duck's back.
But it leaves a nasty stain on McConnell's soul.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Saryden 2/14/2021 5:01:57 PM (No. 696062)
Unless the voting machines are destroyed, NOTHING is going to help our elections... like other Marxist-run countries, our nation will have "elections" where the dictator gets 100 percent of the vote. Dominion, Smartmatic, etc must go!!
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I never trust one thing out of Lindsey's mouth. He sways with the wind to the side that benefits him on a particular day. Any buddy of John McCain has bad stink on him.
As for republicans taking the house, I could care less. The "republicans" that I sent to Washington to represent me, did not back Trump. As far as I can tell, they need to switch their name take to democrat.
Bill Cassidy and Garrett Graves will never ever get my vote again! But if Louisiana chooses to purchase Dominion voting machines again, I see no reason to ever vote again anyway.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
XCenturion 2/14/2021 5:41:49 PM (No. 696112)
If Republicans want to retain any of their seats in the Senate they must replace McConnell as their leader ASAP! Mitch has no idea how many people he and the slimily seven RINO's that voted to impeach have angered. We will not forget the betrayal Mitch!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/14/2021 6:00:54 PM (No. 696135)
Maybe lindsey girl wants the turtle's job when he retires as opposed to getting dragged out of office. It would be like mitch never left.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/14/2021 6:13:43 PM (No. 696142)
Who says that McConnell would not be pleased as punch to keep the wimpy Republicans in the Senate minority where he would have no responsibility as the leftist and liberal Democrats go about passing their socialist oriented legislation, as being the Republican minority leader he would still get his portion of the spoils?
That speech that McConnell gave slamming Trump and suggesting that the Democrats use the courts against Trump was not politically necessary, and you can bet your boots that the Democrats will certainly use McConnell's words against the Republicans in the 2022 election.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
scottj 2/14/2021 7:21:37 PM (No. 696217)
McConnell is toast. He barely got reelected. He will be primaried and he will lose.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
901AtTheRiver 2/14/2021 7:36:35 PM (No. 696234)
Remember Tom Foley? The good people of Washington 5th District removed him from office for far smaller reasons then I see looming here.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
judy 2/14/2021 8:07:22 PM (No. 696265)
McCarthy did the same type speech as McConnell when he voted not to impeach Trump...it's called untrustworthy, two faced, unreliable, non loyal...the sad part is they selected Biden over Trump. Recall McCarthy & McConnell otherwise the party is gone. The only time Mitch ever liked his party was when he wanted to be re-elected. Mitch told the senators not to ask for Trump's help during their elections. Mitch is no different than Romney.
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Don't tell US Lindsey, as Max says Get in his face.
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To me, the most interesting part is in paragraph 10 where he says that he doesn’t "know how Kamala Harris doesn't get impeached if the Republicans take over the House...” Since no VP has ever been impeached before, Democrats should welcome another first!