Over the course of three phone conversations on Thursday Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) cajoled an unpredictable President Trump into supporting the bipartisan border funding spending bill by promising he’d make his caucus stand behind a national emergency declaration, The Washington Post reported.
In a freakout that a Republican senior aide described as “off the rails” to the Post, Trump threatened on Thursday afternoon to blow up plans to avoid another government shutdown by not signing the spending deal. But McConnell reportedly calmed Trump’s concerns, by not only vowing his support of a national emergency declaration, but also convincing Trump that Democrats were the real losers in the spending fight.
Trump is expected to sign the legislation and declare an emergency on Friday morning.
Oh, Mitch. You pushed the wrong way.
I’ve always thought McConnell as big a contributor to the decline of our democracy as Trump and this certainly, in my opinion, shows it. These people are a disgrace!
This will bite you right in the ass, McConnell.
Giving this additional thought, what a poor headline! Talking Trump off the ledge? He just moved him to another window with a ledge in front of it. The spirit, the soul of the USA has been permanently altered.
I think he actually pulled Trump in from the ledge, and put the entire country out where he had been standing. Our only hope, probably, is a sane court system. I guess we will see if one still exists.