Former President Donald Trump said Senate Republicans need a new leader following a recent health scare for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Trump, 77, said in an interview, “We have to have that,” when asked if Republican senators need a new leader after McConnell, 81, froze up during a press conference last week before being escorted away. The Kentucky Republican returned a few minutes later and briefed the press.
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The former president reacted to the episode, telling Breitbart it was “sad.” Trump further said he hopes that McConnell is well.
“We have some people in the Senate that are fantastic and would be great at that position,” he added.
After noting that the health event was “too bad,” Trump steered the conversation toward hitting McConnell over policy moves. “At the same time, I think it’s a shame he went so far out to give Green New Deal money to Biden and Democrats. He got 10 people to vote because they needed 10 people, and he got 10 people to vote on numerous occasions for trillions of dollars,” he said.
Trump recalled McConnell’s fall earlier this year that left the senator hospitalized with a concussion and minor rib fracture. McConnell needed to complete physical therapy following the incident. “He had a bad fall, I guess, and probably an aftereffect of that,” Trump said.
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“But it was also sad that he gave trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars to the Democrats to waste on the Green New Deal, destroying our oceans and destroying our great, beautiful vistas and plains all over our country with windmills that are very expensive energy. So that’s a very sad thing also,” he added in another shot at McConnell’s political maneuvers.
Following the health scare last week, McConnell’s office maintained he will serve out his full term. “Leader McConnell appreciates the continued support of his colleagues, and plans to serve his full term in the job they overwhelmingly elected him to do,” it said in a statement.
