Mitch McConnell has been the face of the GOP establishment for years.
Conservatives have long been fed up with his swampy antics.
And Sean Hannity unloaded on Mitch McConnell in this unthinkable way.
Mitch McConnell kicked off a Civil War with Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
Despite Donald Trump winning the election and receiving a mandate to enact his America First foreign policy, McConnell still thinks the GOP is the party of Dick Cheney and Mitt Romney.
And to draw his line in the sand, McConnell forced Vice President J.D. Vance to cast a tie-breaking vote by voting ‘no’ on Pete Hegseth’s confirmation as Secretary of Defense.
McConnell has routinely attacked conservatives for not being “team players” when they oppose multi-trillion dollar spending bills or raising the debt ceiling.
But when it came time to confirm Donald Trump’s cabinet pick, McConnell went rogue and made life difficult for his party.
Conservatives were livid with McConnell who initiated an intra-party fight at a time when voters had just rewarded Republicans with unified control of government so Trump could implement the agenda he campaigned on.
No one was more furious with McConnell than Hannity who slammed McConnell as a “Toxic RINO” on social media.
Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp.
A key component of that pledge was negotiating an end to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
Trump also told the American people he would keep America out of new wars with Communist China and Iran.
In a statement explaining his ‘no’ vote, McConnell belittled Hegseth’s record as a decorated war veteran.
“Mere desire to be a ‘change agent’ is not enough to fill these shoes. And ‘dust on boots’ fails even to distinguish this nominee from multiple predecessors of the last decade. Nor is it a precondition for success. Secretaries with distinguished combat experience and time in the trenches have failed at the job,” McConnell wrote.
But McConnell voted for Biden’s woke Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin who went AWOL the last week of 2023, imposed DEI requirements on the military, and tried to purge Trump supporters by using vaccine mandates and employing manhunts for domestic extremists.
Austin got McConnell’s vote.
But Hegseth – who fought in wars and won medals – got McConnell’s scorn.
McConnell also complained that Hegseth didn’t share his lust for war with Russia, Communist China, and Iran.
“The United States faces coordinated aggression from adversaries bent on shattering the order underpinning American security and prosperity. In public comments and testimony before the Armed Services Committee, Mr. Hegseth did not reckon with this reality,” McConnell added.
McConnell also whined that Hegseth wasn’t a puppet controlled by the D.C. swamp and the defense contractors who line the campaign accounts of RINOs like McConnell.
“Absent, too, was any substantive discussion of countering our adversaries’ alignment with deeper alliance relationships and more extensive defense industrial cooperation of our own,” McConnell ranted.
McConnell went on to attack Hegseth for wanting to end DEI in the military and fire woke generals so Donald Trump could replace them with war fighters who will rebuild the military and prevent wars through overwhelming force.
“By all accounts, brave young men and women join the military with the understanding that it is a meritocracy. This precious trust endures only as long as lawful civilian leadership upholds what must be a firewall between servicemembers and politics. The Biden Administration failed at this fundamental task. But the restoration of ‘warrior culture’ will not come from trading one set of culture warriors for another,” McConnell concluded.
It’s long believed that McConnell will finally retire when his term ends in 2026.
And McConnell’s vote against Hegseth shows that he intends to end his long and disgraceful career in Washington in the same manner as Joe Biden – by throwing a temper-tantrum and flipping the middle finger to his party on his way out the door.
