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turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 12:24 PM Jun 2018

McConnell is a fraud

The Senate Majority Leader once warned about Trump's Muslim ban. Now he's gloating about it.

AARON RUPAR JUN 26, 2018, 11:15 AM

On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) official campaign Twitter account gloated over news that the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority upheld President Trump’s Muslim ban in a 5-4 decision by posting a photo of McConnell shaking hands with Justice Neil Gorsuch.

McConnell, of course, did more than anybody else to make sure Gorsuch got on the court. Following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016, McConnell refused to hold confirmation hearings for then-President Obama’s choice to replace him, Merrick Garland.

McConnell’s tweet suggests that scoring a political win is more important to him than principle. In January 2017, he criticized President Trump’s decision to implement an executive order banning people from a number of Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.

“I think we need to be careful; we don’t have religious tests in this country,” McConnell said at the time.

https://thinkprogress.org/mitch-mcconnell-neil-gorsuch-travel-ban-trump-157a4bf4853f/

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McConnell is a fraud (Original Post) turbinetree Jun 2018 OP
I hate McConnell most of all. -nt CrispyQ Jun 2018 #1
I despise the enabling traitor............ turbinetree Jun 2018 #3
INDEED! MyOwnPeace Jun 2018 #4
Agreed. CrispyQ Jun 2018 #5
Fuck McConnell and the Dictator Trump... BlueJac Jun 2018 #2
That's why we have to, duforsure Jun 2018 #6

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
6. That's why we have to,
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:27 PM
Jun 2018

retake the Senate this Nov. , or we'll have two more years of damage he and trump will do to us, and more Supreme Court appointments they'll use to stack it with.

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