Friday, February 14, 2025

Doe 174 Questions McConnell’s Childhood Polio Battle

President Donald Trump seemed to question a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life " his childhood battle with polio " after the Kentucky Republican opposed vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation Thursday as the nation's top health official. Trump attacked McConnell's mental acuity and said he had "no idea" if the senator had polio. The Oval Office barrage exposed the icy relationship between the Republican president and the former Senate GOP leader. They worked in tandem on tax cuts and judicial appointments during Trump's first term, but their relationship soured after McConnell blamed Trump for "disgraceful" acts in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack and the president made personal comments about McConnell and his family. McConnell's office did not immediately respond to the president's attack Thursday. Earlier, the senator referred to himself as a survivor of childhood polio and talked about the life-saving impact of vaccines

Comments

"I like people who don't get polio, OK?"

-DJT

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-14 09:18 AM

Who cares about either one of them. Mitch could have done the right thing and voted to convict Trump for January the 6th but didn't. He helped create Trump today. Eff him.

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-14 09:24 AM

"Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as the truth' exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as Science' ... If the Leader says of such and such an event, It never happened'-well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five-well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs."

George Orwell

So if the orange turd says Mitch never had polio, he never had it. That must have just been a bad cold.

#3 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-02-16 07:04 PM

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