.MaddowBlog: There's a larger significance behind the former president's hysterical anti-McConnell tirade.
the GOP leader"a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack." In May, Trump added that McConnell is a"dumb son of a b----" and a"stone cold loser" as part of a lengthy harangue., culminating in a doozy yesterday: Trump released a long, rambling written statement, which was even less coherent than his usual missives. The statement began:
Trying to examine the statement on its merits is a fool's errand. Over the course of 400 words, the former president referred to McConnell as"the Broken Old Crow" three times, described him as"stupid," blamed him for the success of President Joe Biden's infrastructure package, suggested he should resign, and pleaded with Republicans to use debt ceiling threats as leverage to do ... something.
But as bizarre as Trump's latest harangue appeared, and as unusual as it is for a former president to lash out so wildly at his own party's most powerful official, there's a larger context to this that makes the statement notable. In other words, statements like yesterday were a reminder of the former president's capacity for hysterical tirades, but it was also part of a larger campaign in which Trump intends to replace McConnell and help arrange for a new Senate Republican leader.
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