Posted on 03/08/2023 7:55:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Twitter CEO Elon Musk called GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s party affiliation into question Tuesday after McConnell condemned Fox News for publishing videos recorded in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, McConnell trashed Fox News’ Tucker Carlson for publishing new footage of the Capitol building from the Jan. 6, 2021 riot that undermined the Democrats’ narrative of a “deadly insurrection.”
“With regard to the presentation on Fox News last night, I want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief of the Capitol Police about what happened on January 6th,” McConnell said.
Hours earlier, Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger sent a memo to his department that called Carlson’s coverage “filled with offensive and misleading conclusions.”
Musk responded to McConnell’s remarks on Twitter.
“I keep forgetting which party he belongs to,” Musk wrote.
McConnell was far from the only Senate Republican to rebuke Carlson’s coverage on Capitol Hill. Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer, North Carolina Sen Thom Tillis, South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds, and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham all condemned Fox News for airing the raw footage of the Capitol riot that exposed the deception campaign run by the House Select Committee on Jan. 6.
McConnell survived a challenge to his perch in leadership last fall from Florida Sen. Rick Scott. Ten Republican senators voted against the Kentucky lawmaker’s re-election as Senate leader after McConnell sabotaged GOP efforts to capture a congressional majority in 2022.
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There’s no Republican Party, only DemocRAT and DemocRAT-Lite.
“There’s no Republican Party, only DemocRAT and DemocRAT-Lite.”
Bull, we’ve got some good guys in office now like Jim Jordan and lots of new Vets in office and others like Josh Hawley fighting for our interests in Congress against great odds as we only have the House. Stop painting with such a broad brush or go run for office yourself to change the equation.
Mitch belongs to the Stuff Mitch’s Pockets With Cash Party.
He ceased being a partisan of the American nation a long time ago.
Mitch McConnell sucks...
He’s the worst and has been exposed. Tells you how out of touch the GOP really is.
I’ll repeat what I’ve been saying for a while now. Conservatives have to make sure he loses in 2026. Prominent conservatives should endorse the Democrat and KY conservatives should vote for the Dem. Letting the Dems get one more seat is the lesser of two evils compared to McConnell.
A very weird choice of words. He doesn't say he agrees with the opinion. He wants to "associate" himself with it. Taken literally, it suggests that it doesn't matter whether the opinion is correct or not.
He squats in the camp Pelosi has trained him to squat in.
Spring is around the corner, both figuratively and literally, and Mitch is skating on thin ice, figuratively.
i heard that Elon Musk was born in Hawaii, not South Africa. Perhaps if we look hard enough we can find his Hawaiian birth certificate and elect him President.
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