Mitch McConnell Swipes At Trump Over ‘Poisoning The Blood’ Remark

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell vaguely rebuked Donald Trump’s current remarks about immigrants, invoking his spouse, Elaine Chao.

CNN’s Manu Raju requested the Kentucky Republican in regards to the former president’s controversial declare on Saturday that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

McConnell mentioned, “Well, it strikes me that didn’t bother him when he appointed Elaine Chao, secretary of transportation.”

He didn’t explicitly reply Raju’s query about whether or not he was snug together with his get together’s main presidential candidate utilizing that language.

McConnell not often weighs in publicly on issues regarding Trump. Their relationship soured after the Jan. 6, 2021, revolt.

Chao, a Taiwanese American, served as Trump’s transportation secretary from 2017 to 2021, when she resigned over his function within the Capitol assault.

Trump has since referred to Chao as McConnell’s “China-loving wife” and “Coco Chow,” assaults which have been broadly condemned as racist, together with by Chao herself.

Trump set off a firestorm after telling rally attendees in New Hampshire over the weekend that immigrants are “pouring” into the U.S. from all over the world and “poisoning the blood of our country.”

Many critics and commentators have likened Trump’s rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler, who advised in his fascist manifesto “Mein Kampf” that Jews and immigrants have been poisoning the purity of German blood.