McConnell: Trump’s Personal Insults ‘Ought To Stop’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. takes questions from reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, following a Senate Republican policy luncheon. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was not too enthusiastic Thursday when talking about Donald Trump as his party’s presumptive presidential nominee, telling the radio show WBAL News Now with Bryan Nehman that Trump’s personal insults “ought to stop.”

“I don’t think it adds any value whatsoever to the discourse. It is something about him that I don’t care for,” he said, in comments first picked up by Buzzfeed.

McConnell also punted on an earlier question posed to him if he believed Trump was a conservative, or even a Republican.

“I think he will have to operate in what I call the right-of-center world,” he McConnell. “And that includes a lot of people like Ryan, myself, and others who clearly are conservatives. The president is not a dictator in our country. You can’t just do whatever you want to, you have to work in the system. And the system in our party is right of center.”

McConnell was initially asked why he was so quick to “say yes” to Trump, as his counterpart in the House, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) held off on endorsing Trump when he emerged as the last man standing in the GOP 2016 race.

“He won. He got the most votes. And I think we need to respect the process,” McConnell said, noting that he outlasted a crowded primary field.

“And also look. What is the alternative? We know that Hillary Clinton will be four more years just like the last eight,” McConnell said.

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  1. We know that Hillary Clinton will be four eight more years just like the last eight…

    Works well for me.

    Edit: OK @lizzymom, fixed as it should be :slight_smile:

  2. "…And the system in our party is right of center.”

    And that center is WAY to the right.

  3. It is interesting that the republicans are coming out now to blast trump for antics…I wonder what trump response to that will be

  4. Avatar for okay okay says:

    Trump IS today’s Republican Party, and regardless what McConnell states, Republicans will vote for him on election day.

  5. Avatar for pine pine says:

    " Trump’s personal insults “ought to stop.”

    Those insults are his “CRACK” and the press was the “PIPE”.

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