President Donald Trump slammed Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and questioned his expertise of childhood polio on Thursday after the previous Senate majority chief voted towards confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as well being secretary because of his anti-vaccine views.
“He’s not voting towards Bobby. He’s voting towards me,” Trump advised reporters on the White Home, referring to Kennedy. McConnell is “a really bitter man,” the president continued.
When CNN’s Kaitlan Collins talked about McConnell’s polio, Trump interrupted her to say: “I don’t know something about ‘He had polio, he had polio.’”
Collins then requested if he was doubting McConnell’s account of getting polio as a 2-year-old. Trump maintained his stance.
“I do not know if he had polio,” Trump stated. “All I can inform you is that he shouldn’t have been chief. He is aware of that. He voted towards Bobby ― he’s voting towards virtually all the pieces now.”
The president’s feedback come despite McConnell praising Trump in his assertion critiquing Kennedy, saying he “delivered a medical miracle with [Operation] Warp Pace” ― the hassle to shortly get a COVID-19 vaccine to market.
“I’m a survivor of childhood polio. In my lifetime, I’ve watched vaccines save tens of millions of lives from devastating illnesses throughout America and around the globe,” McConnell said. “I cannot condone the re-litigation of confirmed cures, and neither will tens of millions of Individuals who credit score their survival and high quality of life to scientific miracles.”
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Polio as soon as killed or paralyzed over half a million people annually.
McConnell, who’s predicted to finish his political profession when his time period concludes subsequent 12 months, was the one Republican to vote “no” on confirming Kennedy on Thursday. A day earlier, he was additionally the lone Republican to vote towards Tulsi Gabbard as director of nationwide intelligence. He’s additionally said he’ll vote “no” on confirming Kash Patel as FBI director.
