McConnell Questions Trump’s Fitness for the Presidency – Again – By Susan Milligan (US News) / Dec 6, 2022
The Senate’s Republican leader for the second time in two weeks led off remarks to reporters by condemning the behavior of Donald Trump – without naming the former president.
For the second week in a row, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell had to start out his Tuesday press appearance by dressing down his party’s former president and de facto front-runner for the 2024 nomination.
“First, let me just say that anyone seeking the presidency who thinks that the Constitution should somehow be suspended or not followed seems to me would have a very hard time being sworn in as the president of the U.S.,” McConnell told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday, clearly exasperated at having to formally condemn Trump’s remarks when he really wanted to talk about the GOP agenda on the Hill.
This week, it was a proactive response to expected questions about Trump’s endorsement of throwing out the Constitution – the document he swore to uphold when he was sworn in as president in 2017 – because of what Trump said was Twitter’s unfair treatment of him during the 2020 election.
Last Tuesday, in his weekly presser after the Senate party luncheons on the second floor of the Capitol, it was antisemistim and white nationalism that McConnell was forced to address in advance.
