Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed by the Senate as Health and Human Services secretary on Thursday, the latest nominee to overcome a savage media smear campaign with only one Republican refusing to support him: Mitch McConnell.
The 82-year-old career politician joined with Democrats to oppose Kennedy who has pledged to reform the corrupt national health bureaucracy and devote himself to getting Americans healthy again, neither of which apparently matter to McConnell who was more concerned with what appears to be a pathetic and spiteful protest against Trump, much like when John McCain voted to save Obamacare.
In remarks from the Oval Office, Trump slammed the “bitter” former Senate minority leader for being a failure and seemed to question the veracity of McConnell’s claim that he had polio as a child, the story that the corrupt old coot was hiding behind to justify his opposition to RFK Jr. who represents an existential threat to the obscene profits of Big Pharma which has dumped boatloads of money into the coffers of members of Congress.
BREAKING: TRUMP lays the HAMMER on MITCH MCCONNELL
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“I was the one that got him to drop out of the leadership position, so he can’t love me. But he’s not voting against Bobby, he’s voting against me. But that’s all right. He endorsed me. You know that Mitch endorsed me, right?” Trump told reporters.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins then brought up McConnell’s sob story about his childhood polio.
“I don’t know anything about — he had polio, he had polio,” Trump responded.
Looking for a hook for the nightly CNN anti-Trump narrative, Collins then asked if he doubted that McConnell actually had the debilitating disease.
“I have no idea if he had polio. All I can tell you about him is he shouldn’t have been leader, he knows that. He voted against Bobby. He votes against almost everything. He’s a very bitter guy,” Trump said.
After he once again sided with the Democrats after previously voting against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Mitch released a statement decrying Kennedy as a conspiracy theorist and using children and their parents as human shields for his raging hatred of Trump.
“Individuals, parents, and families have a right to push for a healthier nation and demand the best possible scientific guidance on preventing and treating illness. But a record of trafficking in dangerous conspiracy theories and eroding trust in public health institutions does not entitle Mr. Kennedy to lead these important efforts,” McConnell huffed.
“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” McConnell said in a December statement interpreted to be a warning shot at Kennedy. “Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.”
“I feel sorry for Mitch. And I was one of the people that led — he wanted to go to the end, and he wanted to stay leader,” Trump said.
“He’s not equipped, mentally. He wasn’t equipped 10 years ago, mentally, in my opinion. He let the Republican Party go to hell. If I didn’t come along, the Republican Party wouldn’t even exist right now. Mitch McConnell never really had it,” he added.
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