Trump Calls McConnell a ‘Hack,’ Vows to Back Primary Challenges
- Trump rips McConnell after he excoriates him for insurrection
- Statement is latest front in Republican schism after Trump
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Former President Donald Trump vowed in a blistering, invective-filled statement Tuesday to back primary challengers to Republicans who remain loyal to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, drawing sharp battle lines between the two GOP factions.
In a lengthy response to McConnell’s Senate floor speech after Trump’s acquittal on an impeachment charge Saturday in which he said Trump was responsible for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Trump called McConnell “a dour, sullen and unsmiling political hack,” and said that if Republican senators remain loyal to McConnell, “they will not win again.”