McConnell has the chutzpah to complain about Trump's 'America First' [View all]

Mitch McConnell bears great responsibility for the return of Trump and his foreign policy.

Without minimizing the many factors responsible for reelecting the most unfit presidential candidate in U.S. history, we must not forget the singular role played in 2021 by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) in preventing then-President Donald Trump’s removal from office in his second impeachment trial, thereby enabling his return to office. It is therefore grotesquely hypocritical for McConnell now to bemoan the danger to the nation posed by the revival of Trump’s “America First” foreign policy.

McConnell recently told the Financial Times: “We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before World War II.” He added, “Even the slogan is the same: ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.” He continued:


McConnell strongly advocated for U.S. support for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, a position starkly at odds with Trump’s insistence on “ending” the war immediately and scolding the Biden administration and Ukraine for “escalating” the war.

McConnell’s posturing rings hollow, considering not only his role in rescuing Trump from conviction after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot but also his opposition to Trump’s removal in the first impeachment trial, for abusing the office of the presidency to try to force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to help his reelection bid. In that impeachment trial, McConnell went so far as to block the introduction of evidence and disingenuously argue that Trump’s threats to withhold U.S. aid merely concerned the “timing” of aid.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/15/mitch-mcconnell-trump-america-first/

Probably don't need to say this, but...Fuck Mitch McConnell, traitor to this country.