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Mitch McConnell Caught Slamming Trump: Says Trump is ‘Nuts’ and is ‘So Much Like’ Roy Moore

The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer has come through again as one of the most well-sourced Washington insider reporters, and today published a blockbuster piece describing the co-dependent relationship between Trump and Mitch McConnell, two of the most loathsome political creatures to ever arise from the swamp. Mayer’s point is rather obvious, but she puts real meat on the bone: Trump and McConnell are polar opposites in their manner, but desperately need each other. Additionally, McConnell sees Trump for exactly who he is, and has said as much behind Trump’s back.

Today, those quotes sit before Trump’s eyes and lobotomized lobe. They will not at please Donald!

According to one such acquaintance, McConnell said that Trump resembles a politician he loathes: Roy Moore, the demagogic former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, whose 2017 campaign for an open U.S. Senate seat was upended by allegations that he’d preyed on teen-age girls. (Moore denies them.) “They’re so much alike,” McConnell told the acquaintance.

Ask any politician in this country: “Which politician would you least want to be associated with?” and it would surely be Roy Moore, the child predator, come fanatic evangelical, from Alabama.

I also wonder if McConnell’s sly mind intentionally associates the two not “just” politically, but also for the shared predation upon adolescent girls.

More? Sure:

Although the two men almost always support each other in public, several members of McConnell’s innermost circle told me that in private things are quite different. They say that behind Trump’s back McConnell has called the President “nuts,” and made clear that he considers himself smarter than Trump, and that he “can’t stand him.” (A spokesman for McConnell, who declined to be interviewed, denies this.)

First, of course the spokesman denied it. What is a McConnell spokesman supposed to say? “Oh, there’s been much worse, but – yep, that’s Mitch alright.” Not going to happen. But Mayer also knows who is bullshitting and who isn’t – she published the quotes, they’re reliable, Trump knows it.

McConnell thinks he’s smarter than Trump? I agree, McConnell is smarter than Trump. Trump’s about as smart as a fish. That’s not a game-changer.

Saying Trump is “nuts” is one that will dwell in Trump’s empty head for a long time. Trump hates being dissed by someone of whom he can’t blast, dismiss, fire, mean-girl tweet.

I suspect this article will lead to some discomfort in that alliance, which might lead to some distrust. Any splinter in the rigid adherence to their alliance is something to be celebrated, and promoted. So – send this around, make some terrible people terribly unhappy!

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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