Donald Trump is biting the hand of Mitch McConnell who fed him judges like Aileen Connell, who granted the request of the former guy’s legal team that a “special master” be appointed to review the documents found during last month’s search of Mar-a-Lago.
What’s got Trump all riled up is that McConnell is backing Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Senate race. Murkowski infuriated Trump when she voted to convict him of inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection in his second Senate impeachment trial.
Trump actually posted something on his failing Truth Social platform that we can actually agree with. He called McConnell “one of the worst and most unpopular politicians in the U.S.”
But then Trump went on to rage that the Senate Minority leader is “the man that gave the Radical Left Democrats Trillions of Dollars for their Green New Deal Fake Infrastructure Bill (9% Infrastructure) without so much as a fight, is spending a fortune of donor’s money (the only way he holds power!) on pushing Left Wing Alaska hater Lisa Murkowski rather than great Republican candidate Kelly Tshibaka -- a close race."
Murkowski and Tschibaka both advanced to the November general election in Alaska’s Senate primary last month. A little-known Democrat Patricia Chesbro and another Republican Buzz Kelley also advanced to the four-candidate ranked-choice November ballot.
Murkowski is the only Senate Republican on the ballot in the 2022 midterms who voted to convict Trump in his impeachment trial. She also supports abortion rights. The Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with McConnell, booked more than $7 million worth of ad time to support Murkowski.
Tshibaka is a pro-Trump, anti-abortion, “America First” candidate who has questioned the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. She has said that if elected she won’t support McConnell for majority leader.
Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, an increasingly desperate Mehmet Oz actually tried to distance himself from Trump. But it’s probably too little, too late for the New Jerseyan to appeal to moderates after being repeatedly trolled by Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman.
At a press conference Tuesday, Oz backed away from the Big Lie. Asked if he would have voted to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election had he been in the Senate at the time, Oz said.
“I would not have objected to it. By the time the delegates and those reports were sent to the U.S. Senate, our job was to approve it, which is what I would have done.”
That certainly won’t please Trump, who held a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday with Oz and embattled gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano. Oz now risks alienating some MAGA Republicans.
And finally, Trump has even more reason to be upset with Fox News. On Sunday, Trump lashed out at Fox News on Truth Social: “Fox News is really pushing the Democrats and the Democrat agenda. Gets worse every single day.”
In an interview on Fox News Tuesday, former Attorney General William Barr criticized the decision by Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon. She granted the request by Trump’s lawyers that a “special master” be appointed to review the documents, many of them highly classified, that were discovered by FBI agents during last month’s search of Mar-a-Lago.
Barr said:
"The opinion, I think, was wrong, and I think the government should appeal it," Barr said. “It's deeply flawed in a number of ways."
“ don't think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up -- but even if it does, I don't see it fundamentally changing the trajectory. In other words, I don't think it changes the ball game so much as maybe we'll have a rain delay for a couple of innings."
On Friday, Trump lashed out at Barr after the former attorney general said in a Fox News interview that the Justice Department had every right to search Trump’s Florida estate because there was “no legtimate reason” for classified government documents to be stored there.
In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that Barr “was a weak and pathetic RINO, who was so afraid of being Impeached that he became a captive to the Radical Left Democrats.”
On Tuesday, Barr was asked on Fox News if he cared about Trump calling him a Republican In Name Only. Barr replied:
“No, I’ve heard that a lot. A RINO for him is anyone who disagrees with him that the election was stolen, right? That’s a RINO.”
“As someone who handed out Barry Goldwater literature when I was 14 years old on the Upper West Side, it’s a little silly.”
Well, I can confirm what Barr said. We went to the same high school and lived a few blocks away from each other on Riverside Drive near Columbia University on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. As a teenager, he was indeed a conservative Republican who supported the Vietnam War, and made sure we all knew that.