{"id":283597,"date":"2021-03-22T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=283597"},"modified":"2021-03-22T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T20:00:57","slug":"president-trump-we-need-better-leadership-than-mitch-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-we-need-better-leadership-than-mitch-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump: We need better leadership than Mitch McConnell"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fpresident-trump-we-need-better-leadership-than-mitch-mcconnell%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=283597&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 id=\"attachment_2390477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2390477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., heads to the chamber as the Senate holds the final vote to confirm Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden\u2019s pick to be secretary of Health and Human Services, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:54 PM PT \u2013 Monday, March 22, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>According to President Trump, there would be \u201cirreparable damage\u201d to the GOP if Senate Democrats end the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vSFNXMTg5NDQ2MzU3MA\/episode\/NjAyMThhOTItODkxOC0xMWViLThhY2ItMWI4ZDQxZWZiODRi?hl=en&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjX5ey6qMTvAhWkFzQIHQxdBRQQieUEegQIBRAF&amp;ep=6\">interview<\/a> with media personality Lisa Boothe Monday, the 45th president said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been weak on leadership and has not fought hard enough to reign his party when defending the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need better than Mitch McConnell and this is big stuff\u2026now they\u2019re going to knock out the filibuster\u2026its going to be a big problem,\u201d stated President Trump. \u201cAnd if they do that, it\u2019s going to be a free-for-all.<\/p>\n<p>His comments follow earlier criticisms in which he suggested McConnell isn\u2019t good for the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kind words from Pres. Trump about my new podcast, \u201cThe Truth with Lisa Boothe.\u201d He was my first guest! Such an honor! \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview that Pres. Trump is talking about HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/coLlMhM6nm\">https:\/\/t.co\/coLlMhM6nm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aczDriCTIo\">pic.twitter.com\/aczDriCTIo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lisa Boothe (@LisaMarieBoothe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisaMarieBoothe\/status\/1373986909098278917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Trump also linked McConnell\u2019s weak approach to his handling the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/miami-beach-declares-state-of-emergency-amid-spring-break\/\"> Miami Beach declares state of emergency as spring breakers overwhelm city<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., heads to the chamber as the Senate holds the final vote to confirm Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden\u2019s pick to be secretary of Health &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275779,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283597","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}