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The country’s least-favorite political leader has been revealed, and no doubt it is making former President Donald Trump smile.
According to a new Monmouth University poll, every member of Congress was underwater. But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) won the approval of just 6 percent of respondents, which makes sense when you consider that Democrats don’t prefer him and he fell out of favor with most Republicans who are Trump supporters.
The poll found that McConnell had an astoundingly high 60 percent disapproval rating, with 34 percent voicing no opinion, Fox News reported.
Fox added: McConnell was the only congressional leader with a net negative approval rating from within his own party, and fell far behind his Democrat and Republican colleagues on how they are viewed by the American public. Just 10% of Republicans said they approved of McConnell’s job performance, with 41% disapproving and 49% having no opinion. Overall, just 17% said they approved of Congress’ job performance, and 77% said they disapproved.
Trump and McConnell had a major falling out after the 2020 election and the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021, with the latter blaming the former for the incident.
Earlier this year, Trump referred to McConnell as “a disaster” and said he “does not speak for the Republican Party.”
“We do have to do something about Mitch McConnell,” Trump said. “He’s a disaster. He gets his 10 guys, and they give [President Joe] Biden whatever they want. There’s something going on. That doesn’t make sense. They get whatever they want.”
“We got to get him the hell out,” he added. “He’s a problem, big problem. In the meantime, I hope he’s feeling well, but he’s a big problem.”
The tiff between McConnell and Trump came as House Republicans are moving to expunge Trump’s two impeachments from the record.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik of New York and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia are working to expunge Trump’s impeachments which, if the effort is successful, will reverse the previous filings and charges against him.
Stefanik’s resolution seeks to remove Trump’s impeachment related to the events of January 6. She argues that the facts and circumstances presented by House Democrats did not meet the burden of proof that Trump committed “high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Additionally, she is arguing that the impeachment did not demonstrate that Trump engaged in an “insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”
“The American people know Democrats weaponized the power of impeachment against President Donald Trump to advance their own extreme political agenda,” Stefanik noted in a press release.
“From the beginning of this sham process, I stood up against Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff’s blatant attempt to shred the Constitution as House Democrats ignored the Constitution and failed to follow the legislative process,” she noted further. “President Donald Trump was rightfully acquitted, and it is past time to expunge Democrats’ sham smear against not only President Trump’s name but against millions of patriots across the country.”
Meanwhile, Greene’s resolution seeks to expunge Trump’s 2019 impeachment over his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Democrats, on the word of an alleged whistleblower, claimed that Trump illegally withheld financial aid to the country in exchange for a commitment from Zelenskyy to investigate alleged illicit business activities involving Joe and Hunter Biden.
She claims that he “was wrongfully accused of misconduct, demonstrated by the information revealed in the FBI informant document that alleges Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe. The resolution asserts the articles of impeachment did not meet the burden of proof of ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors,’” Breitbart noted further.
“The Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, weaponized a perfect phone call with Ukraine to interfere with the 2020 election,” Greene said. “Meanwhile, the FBI had credible evidence of Joe and Hunter Biden’s corrupt dealings, confirming their involvement in a foreign bribery pay-to-play scheme and receipt of over $5 million each.
