All hell broke loose when Sean Hannity said two words about Mitch McConnell
Battle lines are being drawn.
Sides are being chosen.
And all hell broke loose when Sean Hannity said two words about Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell telegraphed that he planned to initiate a GOP civil war with Donald Trump and the MAGA movement over foreign policy.
The American people elected Donald Trump to end the war in Ukraine.
Mitch McConnell declared the Republican Party’s number one priority would be funding a blank check to keep this forever war humming along.
McConnell fired the first shot in this intraparty conflict when he voted against confirming Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense.
And McConnell’s opposition forced Vice President J.D. Vance to cast a tiebreaking vote as anti-Trump RINOs Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins joined McConnell in voting no on Hegseth’s confirmation.
Conservatives were disgusted.
Sean Hannity blasted McConnell as a “toxic RINO” in a post on social media.
McConnell’s statement explaining his opposition to Hegseth’s nomination only served to increase the level of disgust among conservatives.
The statement led off with McConnell belittling Hegseth’s decorated military service where he won medals for bravery in combat.
“Mere desire to be a ‘change agent’ is not enough to fill these shoes. And ‘dust on boots’ fails even to distinguish this nominee from multiple predecessors of the last decade. Nor is it a precondition for success. Secretaries with distinguished combat experience and time in the trenches have failed at the job,” McConnell claimed.
McConnell thought Joe Biden’s Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was well qualified and voted for his confirmation.
Austin imposed DEI on the military, oversaw the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and went AWOL for a week while America was in the middle of multiple wars.
McConnell also complained that Hegseth didn’t share his lust for war with Russia, Communist China, and Iran.
“The United States faces coordinated aggression from adversaries bent on shattering the order underpinning American security and prosperity. In public comments and testimony before the Armed Services Committee, Mr. Hegseth did not reckon with this reality,” McConnell continued.
McConnell also bemoaned the fact that the swamp and the military industrial complex didn’t control Hegseth.
“Absent, too, was any substantive discussion of countering our adversaries’ alignment with deeper alliance relationships and more extensive defense industrial cooperation of our own,” McConnell added.
And finally, McConnell fumed that Trump picked Hegseth to eliminate DEI from the military and fire the woke generals that Joe Biden promoted.
“By all accounts, brave young men and women join the military with the understanding that it is a meritocracy. This precious trust endures only as long as lawful civilian leadership upholds what must be a firewall between servicemembers and politics. The Biden Administration failed at this fundamental task. But the restoration of ‘warrior culture’ will not come from trading one set of culture warriors for another,” McConnell concluded.
McConnell failed in this attempt to hijack Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
But it won’t be his last.
