‘Dumb son of a bitch’: Trump attacks McConnell in Republican donors speech - The Guardian

Donald Trump devoted part of a speech to Republican donors on Saturday night to insulting the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell.

“Have you ever seen somebody who is so full of crap?“ Trump reportedly said about the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Joe Biden’s top medical adviser who was a key member of Trump’s coronavirus taskforce.

Of the certification of the election result, according to the Washington Post, Trump said: “If that were [Chuck] Schumer [the Democratic Senate leader] instead of this dumb son of a bitch Mitch McConnell, they would never allow it to happen.

Trump also attacked McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, who resigned as transportation secretary over the Capitol riot, just before the end of Trump’s term.

“I hired his wife,” Trump said, according to the Post.

He also ridiculed her resignation – “She suffered so greatly,” the Post reported him saying, his “voice dripping with sarcasm” – and said he had won her husband’s Senate seat for him.

Politico reported discontent among donors, who it said mostly wanted to focus on winning in 2022 and 2024.

Politico said Trump “lavished praise” on two possible 2024 contenders, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, and Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota

The Post reported that Trump told Republicans to stick together