Donald Trump vs. Mitch McConnell: The tyrant declares war on the trickster

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Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell (left): party declaration of war

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JOSHUA ROBERTS / REUTERS

A few weeks ago, Donald Trump would have packed his anger in short messages of up to 280 characters and thrown it into the world.

Since Twitter blocked his account in the first half of January, that's no longer possible.

So the ex-president recently made a statement to the public.

It was 600 words long, with Trump a lot must have built up.

In terms of content, the statement turned into an internal party declaration of war.

Trump attacks Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader in the Senate, in the most violent way.

The Kentucky man was "a sullen, morose political bungler who never smiles," and a "third-rate" leader. "

The former president advises the other Republicans in the McConnell chamber of removal: "If the Republican senators stand by him, they will never win again."

The relationship between the two most powerful men in the party has gone through a number of phases over the past few months;

Trump's attack marks the beginning of the most recent.

Once he and McConnell had a mutually profitable alliance of convenience.

The alienation began at the latest when the Senator congratulated Joe Biden on winning the presidential election in mid-December.

With the violent attack on Congress by Trump supporters on January 6, alienation turned into enmity.

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