{"id":105960,"date":"2024-06-13T21:04:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T21:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-mcconnell-to-meet-face-to-face-for-1st-time-in-nearly-4-years\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T21:04:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T21:04:44","slug":"trump-mcconnell-to-meet-face-to-face-for-1st-time-in-nearly-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-mcconnell-to-meet-face-to-face-for-1st-time-in-nearly-4-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, McConnell to meet face-to-face for 1st time in nearly 4 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a news conference following a Senate Republican party policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol Building on May 08, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(WASHINGTON) — When Donald Trump meets with Republican senators Thursday in Washington, he will come face-to-face with Mitch McConnell for the first time in three-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n

In fact, the former president and Senate Minority Leader have not spoken to each other since Dec. 15, 2020.<\/p>\n

That was the day that McConnell gave a speech on the Senate floor congratulating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their 2020 election victory.<\/p>\n

As I described in my book, “Betrayal,” Trump was so enraged by McConnell’s speech that he called his office minutes after it was over.<\/p>\n

McConnell later told me that Trump yelled at him in an expletive-ridden rant, insisting he had not lost the election.<\/p>\n

When Trump finally stopped yelling, McConnell said to him, “Well, the Electoral College is the final word.”<\/p>\n

Trump then hung up — and that was the last time the two men spoke to each other.<\/p>\n

Two months later, McConnell voted “not guilty” in Trump’s impeachment trial, but in a speech immediately following the vote, he offered a searing condemnation of Trump’s actions on and before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump’s supporters — and suggested the former president should be prosecuted.<\/p>\n

“Former President Trump’s actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty,” McConnell said. “The House accused the former president of, quote, ‘incitement.’ That is a specific term from the criminal law.<\/p>\n

“Let me put that to the side for one moment and reiterate something I said weeks ago: There is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president. And their having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth.”<\/p>\n

Asked on Wednesday about his meeting with Trump on Thursday, McConnell said he would support the Republican “nominee.”<\/p>\n

“I said three years ago, right after the Capitol was attacked, that I would support our nominee regardless of who it was — including him,” McConnell told reporters. “I’ve said earlier this year, I support him — he’s earned the nomination by the voters all across the country. And of course, I’ll be at the meeting tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

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