{"id":1757432,"date":"2022-11-30T17:27:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757432"},"modified":"2022-11-30T17:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T22:33:42","slug":"trump-slams-mcconnell-as-loser-for-our-nation-after-he-criticizes-his-dinner-with-kanye-and-fuentes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-slams-mcconnell-as-loser-for-our-nation-after-he-criticizes-his-dinner-with-kanye-and-fuentes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Slams McConnell as \u201cLoser For Our Nation\u201d After He Criticizes His Dinner With Kanye and Fuentes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-slams-mcconnell-as-loser-for-our-nation-after-he-criticizes-his-dinner-with-kanye-and-fuentes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757432&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.30-11.01-thepoliticalinsider-638737f883705.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Donald Trump slammed Mitch McConnell as a \u201closer\u201d after the Senate Minority Leader criticized the former President\u2019s media-hyped dinner with Kanye West and little-known commentator Nick Fuentes.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell took the bait from the media and spoke out about a dinner guest most Americans have never heard of in Fuentes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, let me just say that there is no room in the Republican Party for anti-Semitism or white supremacy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/11\/29\/mcconnell-criticizes-trump-meeting-with-kanye-west-nick-fuentes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McConnell told reporters<\/a> unprompted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view, in my judgment, are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">McConnell: \u201cThere is no room in the Republican Party for anti-Semitism or white supremacy And anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view in my judgment are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/73gfsKjn8j\">pic.twitter.com\/73gfsKjn8j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1597675279677542400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/pence-says-trump-should-apologize-for-dinner-with-nick-fuentes-kanye-conservatives-slam-controversy-as-performative-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pence Says Trump Should Apologize For Dinner With Nick Fuentes, Kanye \u2013 Conservatives Slam Controversy as \u2018Performative Politics\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Trump Describes McConnell as a Loser Following Fuentes Comments<\/h3>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s statement was mind-numbingly idiotic.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a comment the media ate up and yet another indication that the top GOP senator is not smart enough to do battle with the Democrat-aligned media.<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>They say \u2018jump\u2019 and the Kentucky Republican, without skipping a beat, performs for their amusement like a circus monkey.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded in kind, pointing out that McConnell is a \u201closer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitch is a loser for our nation and for the Republican Party who would not have been re-elected in Kentucky without my endorsement, which he begged me for because he was going down,\u201d Trump said in an interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-fires-back-loser-mcconnell-says-fuentes-views-werent-expressed-wouldnt-have-been-accepted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">EXCLUSIVE: Trump fires back at \u2018loser\u2019 McConnell<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SEMfz3Xqz0\">https:\/\/t.co\/SEMfz3Xqz0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1597847943368908801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump also reiterated in the interview that he did not know who Fuentes was, something he has previously insisted. Which would put him in the same company as 99.99% of the rest of America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had never heard of the man \u2014 I had no idea what his views were, and they weren\u2019t expressed at the table in our very quick dinner, or it wouldn\u2019t have been accepted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So am I supposed to be more angry at Donald Trump for having dinner with Nick Fuentes than I am with Joe Biden for delivering the eulogy for the Grand Wizard of the KKK?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think Trump knew anything about Nick, but I damn sure know Biden knew that Grand Wiz!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lavern Spicer \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@lavern_spicer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lavern_spicer\/status\/1597592609723420673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/trump-calls-for-the-immediate-removal-of-mitch-mcconnell-from-gop-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Calls For The Immediate Removal Of Mitch McConnell From GOP Leadership<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Pence Calls for an Apology<\/h3>\n<p>McConnell isn\u2019t the first prominent Republican to do the work of the media and Democrats in attacking Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, former Vice President Mike Pence said Trump should apologize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an anti-semite and a Holocaust denier a seat at the table and I think he should apologize for it and he should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric, without qualification,\u201d Pence said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Former Vice-President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pence?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pence<\/a> (and presidential hopeful) distancing himself from his former boss <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Trump?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Trump<\/a> after The Donald had diner with rapper Ye (known as Kanye West) and white supremacist Nick Fuentes. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MSNBC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MSNBC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MorningJoe?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MorningJoe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pU9eRffe59\">pic.twitter.com\/pU9eRffe59<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 joop veen (@jbveen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jbveen\/status\/1597554233657942018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Pence and McConnell are simply acting like trained seals for the leftist media. Or they sense Trump is vulnerable right now following the midterms and are pouncing.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, their posturing is little more than, as American Greatness writer Julie Kelly contends, the \u201cdumbest <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/pence-says-trump-should-apologize-for-dinner-with-nick-fuentes-kanye-conservatives-slam-controversy-as-performative-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">performative politics<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">They fall for it every time\u2014dumbest performative politics I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Biden accuses half the country of being fascists\u2014describes unvaccinated as killers. His DOJ continues to round up, prosecute Trump supporters almost 2 years after Jan 6.<\/p>\n<p>WHO CARES ABOUT A DINNER grow up <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EQDIgnX3aV\">https:\/\/t.co\/EQDIgnX3aV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julie Kelly \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@julie_kelly2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/julie_kelly2\/status\/1596962675678150657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump and McConnell\u2019s feud has been growing more intense in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from calling McConnell a \u201closer,\u201d Trump has blasted him for supporting \u201cDemocrat-sponsored bills,\u201d an action he insists means the Kentucky lawmaker has a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/trump-escalates-attacks-on-mitch-mcconnell-says-he-has-a-death-wish-by-supporting-democrat-bills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death wish<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good question by President Trump. McConnell is voting for all this Democrat legislation. Or waving it through. Before midterm elections.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4hI2QtAzCo\">https:\/\/t.co\/4hI2QtAzCo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marklevinshow\/status\/1576641304028536833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump has consistently been calling on McConnell to be removed from his leadership role \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/trump-calls-for-the-immediate-removal-of-mitch-mcconnell-from-gop-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immediately<\/a>,\u201d saying he is little more than \u201ca pawn for the Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Now is the time to support and share the sources you trust.<\/strong><br \/>The Political Insider ranks #3 on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.feedspot.com\/political_blogs\/\">Feedspot\u2019s<\/a> \u201c100 Best Political Blogs and Websites.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump slammed Mitch McConnell as a \u201closer\u201d after the Senate Minority Leader criticized the former President\u2019s media-hyped dinner with Kanye West and little-known commentator Nick Fuentes. 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