Following the deadly Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill, Mitch McConnell sought to have then-President Donald Trump disinvited from Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, a new book reveals
The two most powerful Republicans are now publicly at odds as Trump criticized McConnell for his support for the bipartisan infrastructure bill. | Doug Mills-Pool/Getty ImagesThe level of distrust that Mitch McConnell had for then-President Donald Trump in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill was greater than previously known.
But while McConnell may have been angered by Trump, he was also proactively taking steps to limit the punishment Trump would receive. Despite criticizing the president’s contributions to the riots, McConnell famously did not vote for Trump’s impeachment, arguing there were other avenues for holding him accountable.
“It gives Biden and the Democrats a victory just as they were falling off the cliff!” Trump said on Saturday night. In addition to wanting McConnell to step down, Trump and his allies have begun making political threats to House Republicans who supported the infrastructure bill, with some, like his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, calling for those members who did so to be stripped of their committee assignments. In all, 19 Republican senators and 13 Republican House members voted for the infrastructure bill.
“We went through various fits and starts about how the plan developed, but the president was very hands on, it was something he understood from his own background. It was important to him,” said one former White House official. After passing USMCA, “there was a real effort to go to infrastructure, and then obviously things came off the tracks at the end of the year, and part of that was the president wanted a large infrastructure package and paying for it presented challenges.
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