According to a new book from ABC journalist Jonathan Karl, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tried to get then-President Donald Trump essentially formally disinvited from Joe Biden’s inauguration as president. As Karl put it, McConnell “felt he could not give Trump another opportunity to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power,” and to that end, he tried to put together a letter disinviting Trump that would have been signed by the two party leaders from each chamber of Congress — but House GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) wouldn’t do it. Trump angrily lashed out after that report came out.
On Monday, Trump issued a statement in which he denied ever even hearing about McConnell’s attempts to get him disinvited from the Biden inauguration, although Karl reported that Trump preemptively put out his statement that he wouldn’t be attending the inauguration after learning of McConnell’s efforts. As Trump put it:
‘From Election Day, November 3rd, the day I realized that the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged, I would never have agreed to go to Joe Biden’s Inauguration. This decision was mine, and mine alone. The old broken-down Crow, Mitch McConnell had nothing to do with it. According to third-rate reporter Jonathan Karl of ABC Fake News, McConnell unsuccessfully tried getting a letter signed by others for me not to go. This was nothing I ever heard of and actually, if he ever did get it signed, I probably would have held my nose and gone. The Election was rigged, the facts are clear, and Mitch McConnell did nothing. He was probably too busy working on deals with China for his wife and family!’
How is Donald Trump — an adult and a former president of the United States — actually this petty? He “probably” would have gone to the Biden inauguration just to spite McConnell? Does he hear himself? It’s disgraceful how wrapped up in his own whining that Trump remains while Americans deal with real problems. Check out his rambling statement against McConnell in the post below:
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President Donald J. Trump:
"From Election Day, November 3rd, the day I realized that the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged, I would never have agreed to go to Joe Biden’s Inauguration. This decision was mine, and mine alone. The old broken-down Crow, Mitch McConnell… pic.twitter.com/pyAYyn11Dk
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) November 15, 2021
