If you don't remember, it was Mitch McConnell who gave Donald Trump his most impactful political victory. Moscow Mitch it was who made up a bullshit policy that Supreme Court Justices should not be given consent by the Senate when the president is in the last year of his term of his office. We should wait for the election and "let the people decide," he said, through our choice of the next president. So, McConnell blocked the nomination of Merrick Garland by President Obama for over a year and Trump got that appointment. But, when another seat on the Supreme Court became available in the last few months of Trump's term in office, McConnell vacated his new rule and rushed Trump's nominee through the process. This is how we got the "conservative" super majority on the current court, you know the court which just did The Donald a big favor in taking up his ridiculous immunity claim, thus giving him the trial delay he so dearly wanted. (Note I put conservative in quotes as a descriptor of the SCOTUS majority because it is hard to refer to them as "people who conserve" when they ride roughshod over settled precedents at their whim. Clearly they are not conservatives but radicals.)
Those two justices will give the GOP favorable rulings for decades.
So, to show how much Trump appreciated McConnell's support, he viciously attacked him over legislation he was considering supporting (or did support in the form of the bill supporting aid to Ukraine).
To Mafia Don Trump, politicians are like toilet paper—use once, then throw away. Loyalty is "to" Trump, it doesn't flow the other way.
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