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By Ryan Lizza @ NewYorker.com, Aug. 11
[....] “McConnell was extremely pragmatic about the relationship,” the former McConnell adviser told me. “He never said anything if it wasn’t in the interest of him, or his party’s interest, to say it. He didn’t want to create any intra-party feud that could hurt his members.”
Last year, McConnell cared less about anti-Trump conservatives than he did about Republicans such as Roy Blunt, the Missouri senator who was facing a tough reëlection fight in a state where Trump was extremely popular. “It wouldn’t have helped Blunt if McConnell was out there trashing Trump,” the former adviser said—McConnell saved any rebukes for personal conversations with Trump. “That’s the way the relationship looked up until this week.”
What happened this week is that when Trump wasn’t busy threatening North Korea, he was busy threatening McConnell. The attacks were provoked by a speech McConnell delivered on Monday in Kentucky, in which he said, “Our new President, of course, has not been in this line of work before. I think he had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process.” On Wednesday, Trump responded. “Senator Mitch McConnell said I had ‘excessive expectations,’ but I don’t think so,” he tweeted. “After 7 years of hearing Repeal & Replace, why not done?”
Trump woke up on Thursday with McConnell still on his mind [....]
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Trump barrage stuns McConnell and his allies
quite a bit more follows...
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 6:36pm
missed this Senate vs. Trump stuff @ The Hill:
Senate blocks Trump from making recess appointments over break
08/03/17 07:40 PM
Gingrich: Trump handling the Senate 'badly'
Also see Sen. Sasse to Trump on Venezuela here.
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 8:25pm
The GOP’s Civil War Over Trump
A Global Politico special report on the Republican Party’s epic internal battle over its own president.
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/14/2017 - 5:37pm