{"id":2159251,"date":"2024-01-25T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-tried-to-bait-and-switch-americans-on-behalf-of-ukraine-and-biden-its-not-trumps-fault-he-failed\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T15:29:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:29:13","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-tried-to-bait-and-switch-americans-on-behalf-of-ukraine-and-biden-its-not-trumps-fault-he-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-tried-to-bait-and-switch-americans-on-behalf-of-ukraine-and-biden-its-not-trumps-fault-he-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell&#8217;s attempt to deceive Americans on behalf of Ukraine and Biden failed, but it&#8217;s unfair to blame Trump"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fmitch-mcconnell-tried-to-bait-and-switch-americans-on-behalf-of-ukraine-and-biden-its-not-trumps-fault-he-failed%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=2159251&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--><h2>A\u200d Confounding News Story:\u200c McConnell, Trump, and the\u2064 Border<\/h2>\n<p>A confounding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-president-trump-spring-a-trap-on-treasonous-democrats-on-election-night\/\" title=\"Did President Trump Spring a Trap on Treasonous Democrats on Election Night?\">news story<\/a> broke Wednesday night\u200d purporting that Mitch McConnell hit \u200ba dead end on negotiating\u2063 legislation to help <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/25\/gov-abbott-is-right-texas-has-the-right-to-defend-itself-and-secure-its-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">secure the southern border<\/a> and, sadly, Donald Trump was \u200dthe reason\u200c for the failure.<\/p>\n<p>If \u200dthat makes absolutely\u200c zero\u200d sense, don\u2019t be alarmed. You\u2019re\u200c not having a\u2062 stroke. That\u2019s the ridiculous \u2063narrative pushed in earnest by the\u2062 national media at\u2064 the very obvious behest of McConnell\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>What actually happened is this: Without\u200d ever publicly revealing the details of a\u200b supposedly gangbusters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-if-dems-try-to-pass-3-5t-far-left-wish-list-then-hell-yeah-gop-should-skip-town-like-tx-dems\/\" title=\"Graham: If Dems Try To Pass .5T Far-Left Wish List Then \u2018Hell Yeah\u2019 GOP Should Skip Town Like TX Dems\">border security bill<\/a>,\u200b Senate Republican\u2064 leadership told their colleagues in both houses of Congress that they \u200ddefinitely needed to get on board, \u200cthat such a lucky star \u2062only shows itself \u200bonce in a lifetime and that the window to pounce was\u200c never \u2064or\u2064 now.<\/p>\n<p>To great relief, some Republicans were smart enough to pass on that golden opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><em>You mean we\u2064 get the absolute pleasure of signing onto a bill we\u2019ve never \u2064seen and\u200c which our constituents know \u200dnothing about on the biggest crisis our country has faced in more than 20 years? Tell me more!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even Terri Schiavo \u2064would have sat up to say, \u201cHold on, something ain\u2019t right \u2062here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the media, goaded by McConnell\u2019s team, tried in earnest to make it \u2062seem that \u200dTrump was the reason \u200cfor the collapse of what\u2064 would have been an immaculate deal \u200cto\u200d solve the \u2063catastrophic problems at the border,\u200b all \u2063of which were either <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/12\/06\/report-u-s-sets-record-for-most-single-day-border-apprehensions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">created or exacerbated<\/a> by\u200d Joe \u200cBiden and Congressional Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The line was first carried <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jakesherman\/status\/1750295162310349121?s=46&#038;t=G1nRzF-HvbepVmWZPyfXAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by\u2063 Jake \u200cSherman<\/a> of Punchbowl, which is the actual name of\u200b a news site and not some\u2063 weird sex kink. \u201cWe\u2019re in a quandary,\u201d McConnell\u200d reportedly \u2063told\u200b Republicans at a private meeting. \u200bHe added that with Trump being the GOP \u201cnominee\u201d for president, \u201cWe don\u2019t want to do anything to undermine him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Trump directed\u2063 Republicans to drop \u2062the unseen legislation because his campaign needed\u200c to keep the\u200c border issue to his advantage.<\/p>\n<p>A subsequent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/24\/politics\/mcconnell-senate-gop-border-ukraine-package\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> \u200d at CNN\u200d regurgitated\u2063 that narrative. \u201cFormer President Donald Trump\u2019s \u200dpush to kill a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-draft-bipartisan-immigration-deal-to-save-daca-during-lame-duck\/\" title=\"Senators Draft Bipartisan Immigration Deal to Save \u2018DACA\u2019 During Lame Duck\">bipartisan immigration deal<\/a> may now derail a major national\u2062 security package,\u201d it said, \u2063\u201cforcing Senate Minority Leader Mitch\u2062 McConnell to suggest a\u200b new course of action\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Trump\u2019s\u200d push to\u200b kill!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>True, Trump\u200c has publicly stated that Republicans shouldn\u2019t \u2063accept \u200bany deal \u2014 a \u200bdeal\u2064 that \u200bwas always supposed\u2062 to include billions of \u200ddollars more to\u200b shower on Ukraine \u2014 if it didn\u2019t completely seal off\u200b the blight at \u2064the border.\u2063 That\u2019s\u200b a position that\u2019s neither complicated nor unreasonable because \u2064solving the \u200copen border problem isn\u2019t difficult. It\u2019s a requirement \u200cto maintain <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/24\/abbott-texas-has-a-constitutional-right-to-defend-its-sovereignty\/\">a sovereign nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Having an America with distinct borders isn\u2019t contingent upon whether Zelensky gets to keep Ukraine in business. It was only as a\u2064 courtesy that Republicans offered to link the two issues.<\/p>\n<p>What was \u200din that great bipartisan bill anyway?\u200d What was the guarantee\u2063 it contained anything that \u2062would halt or even reduce\u200c the obscene numbers of destitute migrants hurling themselves across\u200d the border into taxpayer care? \u200bThere was no guarantee, just a pinky\u200d swear that all \u2062would end well.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve seen McConnell lately, but I wouldn\u2019t \u2063trust him to \u200cremember \u200bto\u200c breathe, let alone a promise that he\u2019s fixing the border.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell and Republican leadership in the Senate have it backward. They\u2019re\u2064 okay\u2064 with a crippled Southern border while zealously \u2062pushing more taxpayer money to Ukraine. \u2062That their view\u2063 is \u2064in contrast with <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4422273-immigration-overtakes-inflation-top-voter-concern-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a majority of \u2062voters<\/a> regardless of party\u2062 affiliation isn\u2019t the fault of \u200bTrump utilizing it \u2063for his\u2063 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>If McConnell had truly believed \u200cit \u200cwould be a \u200dgrave mistake for Republicans to walk away\u200c from the mysterious legislation he\u2062 helped craft, he would have released it \u200cfor the public to see how fabulous it was. \u200bHe didn\u2019t do that because he knows it would have been \u2064unacceptable, not to Trump, but to voters.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> \u200bWhat role did former President Donald Trump \u200dplay \u2064in \u2063the \u200cfailure of Senator McConnell&#8217;s negotiations on \u200cborder \u2063legislation?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  The article headline \u2063may be a bit sensational, but it highlights an \u200cimportant aspect of the news story that unfolded on Wednesday night.\u2064 The story revolves around \u200cSenator \u200dMitch McConnell&#8217;s failed\u200d negotiations on legislation to secure the southern border and the role played by former President Donald Trump in this failure.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c narrative, as pushed by McConnell&#8217;s\u200c team and \u200damplified by the national media, \u200dis \u200dthat Trump\u2064 is to \u2063blame for \u2063the collapse\u200b of \u200cthe border security bill. \u200dHowever, the reality is far from that. McConnell&#8217;s team never publicly revealed the details of the bill but \u2063urged their\u200c colleagues in Congress to support \u200bit,\u2063 claiming it\u200c was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to address the\u2064 border \u2063crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, some Republicans were wise enough to\u2062 refuse\u2063 blindly signing\u200d onto a bill they knew \u200bnothing about, especially \u200dconsidering \u2062the\u2063 magnitude of the crisis at the\u200b border. Even\u2062 Terri\u2063 Schiavo, \u2062famously in a persistent vegetative state, would have \u200dquestioned the validity of such a proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The media, fueled by McConnell&#8217;s team,\u2062 attempted to portray\u200d Trump as the reason\u2062 behind the collapse of what could \u2064have\u200d been an effective solution to the \u200cborder problems. However, it is important\u200b to \u200cnote that these problems were \u2062primarily \u200ccaused or worsened by Joe Biden and Congressional \u200bDemocrats.<\/p>\n<p>The narrative that Trump\u2063 directed Republicans\u2063 to drop the legislation to maintain \u200ca campaign advantage is built on flimsy foundations. The fact that CNN regurgitated this misleading narrative only adds to\u2063 the confusion.\u200c Trump&#8217;s alleged push to kill the bipartisan immigration deal is a misrepresentation\u200b of the events.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the confounding news story surrounding\u2063 McConnell,\u2064 Trump, \u200dand the\u200b border highlights \u2062the \u2062role of media manipulation and \u2062narrative distortion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mainstream-media-and-big-techs-seismic-shift-to-the-left\/\" title=\"Mainstream Media and Big Tech\u2019s Seismic Shift to the Left\">shaping public opinion<\/a>. It is crucial to critically analyze the information \u2063provided by the media and\u2064 seek out multiple sources to obtain a more\u200d accurate understanding of the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch McConnell&#8217;s alleged failure in negotiating border security legislation was blamed on Donald Trump, according to a perplexing news story. Don&#8217;t worry if it sounds nonsensical; you&#8217;re not alone in feeling confused. This absurd narrative is being promoted with utmost seriousness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2159252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2159252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}