Brave McConnell Backs Potential Trump 2024 Run, Says Past Condemnation ‘Not Something Relevant Now’

President Donald Trump speaks alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as they hold a meeting about tax reform in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on September 5, 2017. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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In a true profile in courage, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday evening tossed aside his past criticism of former President Donald Trump’s incitement the deadly assault of the Capitol on January 6 and embraced the ex-president once more.

“My point is what happened in the past is not something relevant now. We’re moving forward,” McConnell told Fox News in response to a clip of his scathing speech last month that torched Trump for feeding “lies” to the mob of insurrectionists and “provoked” them to attack the Capitol.

“We’ve got a new administration. It’s a very left-wing administration and we need to make sure the American people understand that this is not what Republicans stand for,” the GOP Senate leader continued on Thursday.

A few minutes later, McConnell said he would “absolutely” support Trump if the former president were to run for office again in 2024.

Last week, Trump attacked the senator as a “dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack” for criticizing him in the speech and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Trump also threatened to ensure McConnell’s allies get primaried.

McConnell’s op-ed came after the Republican leader voted to acquit Trump in the Senate impeachment trial.

Hardline Trump loyalists in the GOP Senate caucus, like Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), have ripped McConnell for condemning the former president.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), one of the mere seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump, predicts that the ex-president would likely be the 2024 GOP nominee if he decided to launch another presidential campaign.

“He has by far the largest voice and a big impact in my party,” the Utah Republican said on Tuesday.

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  1. Hopefully by 2024 they will both be in prison and or in elder care.

  2. The nice thing about being a White Supremacist Party is you can keep having it both ways, or any ways you like, until the whole enterprise comes crashing down around you. But the nice thing when that happens is you spread the pain around again to “those people.”

  3. “My point is what happened in the past is not something relevant now. We’re moving forward,”

    I doubt a single historian or philosopher would agree with that. The present is built on your adjustments to the past and the future on how well you did.

  4. So it turns out Mcconnell has no soul after all. This man is the best the GOP has got.

  5. Avatar for davidn davidn says:

    Moscow says “fuck that learning from history crap. Let’s repeat all the worst human mistakes ever!”

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