“It will be interesting to see how it was covered by the media and what Mitch McConnell and the RINOs will be doing about it,” the former president wrote, suggesting that he wants Senate Republicans, should they retake the majority, to investigate his latest claims. “This is an insult to the Republican Party, but a far greater insult to our Nation.”
‘No one should be afraid’
Trump frequently tells his supporters at political rallies that Democrats and others are not after him, but them. He has used the tactic to further inflame the country’s political divisions, and he used that mid-afternoon statement to try doing the same to Senate Republicans.
McConnell shows few signs he is listening closely to Trump’s daily demands. Some influential Senate Republicans don’t appear to be, either.
“No one should be afraid of President Trump, period,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told the New York Times in a Sunday article about her efforts to convince Trump critics within the party to run for Senate.
But rather than heed Graham’s advice about not damaging the GOP brand ahead of the 2022 and 2024 elections, Trump went right after Collins, using a statement to label her “absolutely atrocious, and has been for a long time.”
He noted that he “won Maine 2, by a lot,” referring to the state’s 2nd Congressional District, delivering him one of the state’s four Electoral College votes. Trump also claimed Collins “didn’t help the fisherman, as their rights were taken from them from the federal government, and the lumberjacks,” referring to several administrative directions he pushed as president that affected both industries. (Collins supported both, but lacked the power as a senator to give such orders unilaterally of another branch of government.)
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