Trump’s second presidency is ‘most dangerous period’ since second world war, Mitch McConnell says | Donald Trump
According to the experienced Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, the world during the second presidency of Donald Trump made a period of danger with “some similarities to the 30s”.
In a comprehensive interview with Lexington Herald-LEADER, McConnell made comments firstly by referring to tariffs and external relations. Published on Wednesday While preparing to enter the last year in the office.
McConnell, called the most dangerous period since World War II ,, said that the Trump administration resembled the US insulation policies in the 1930s, and that historians accelerated a global depression that revealed the way to conflict.
However, while the United States disrupted the lack of preparation for confrontation with authoritarian regimes abroad, the 83-year-old McConnell, a senator since 1985, broke a record for 18 years until the leader of the Chamber Republicans, and then announced the upcoming retirement of the authoritarianism of the Trump administration.
He also took his responsibility for giving Trump so much power. As the majority leader, McConnell maneuvered to reject Barack Obama a justified Supreme Court, and ran to Trump to give someone else in the last weeks of his first period in 2020. McConnell said in a panel that critics say he was extremely loyal to Trump.
In the interview, McConnell said that he has focused on “defense and foreign policy ve in the past months since the Senate returned to the back benches, and that Trump is worried that he believes that the commercial policies of“ Maga) are leading the world.
“I think this is the most dangerous period since World War II. There are some similarities to the 30s right now,” he said.
“[Then-president] Herbert Hoover signed Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill In 1930, it is believed that they had taken depression worldwide by historians and economists. Those who were completely worried about staying out of what was going on in Europe were called ‘America first’. Does it sound familiar?
“So what’s today? North Korea, China, Russia, Iran and Iran’s deputies. Many different countries species, but they have something common: they hate us.”
The interview was held before a meeting that some analysts saw as a unique re-drawing of global power balance at a meeting of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.
However, McConnell believes that the United States should be ready to meet the challenges of the rise of autocrats in other countries, but did not do it. Indirectly, Trump has not influenced Ukraine, the largest conflict in Europe since the Second World War of Russia, now on the NATO border until the fourth year.
“When you talk about preparation, we are not prepared as it should be,” he said.
“Regarding Ukraine, at the end of the war we have to do, avoiding the title, ‘Russia is winning, America is losing.’ It has great effects worldwide.
But he also said he had financial benefits for the US. Processing more than $ 130 billion While Ukraine supports the military defense and humanitarian aid, Trump became a Flip-Flope.
Orum For those who are worried about money, I think it is important to remember that about half of the money is spent in this country, including Kentucky. [with] 38 The state modernizes our own industrial bases. ”
“We sent old weapons to Ukraine.”
After leaving his post in 2021, Trump said that McConnell was a doner a bitch stupid son ve and that he had previously nicknamed him “old crow”. In an interview with Herald-Lider, McConnell rejected the opportunity to return.
“My own opinion about the leader, whether the president or leader of one of the parties, the Ronald Reagan quote, which I think was the most logical.
Nevertheless, McConnell seemed sensitive to a proposal he stopped because he was not popular in Kentucky. Nate Morris’s hostilityRepublican businessman and Trump Ultra Loyalist managed him as a senator. “I’m a Trump man, McConnell is not a child, Mor Morris said.
McConnell said his record was talking for him. “These suggestions about who is popular and who does not bother Hell, because you are beaten when you enter the leadership position,” he said.
Nasıl How do you evaluate popularity? Seven Victory in Kentucky, Nine Victory [Senate Republican] conference.”
McConnell said he was the most proud of what he was thinking about what his legacy would be. 2004 Kentucky Tobacco PurchaseIt allowed the state farmers to leave their crops. “There would be courts at the federal level,” he added.
He refused to say that the US was in a better position than Trump. “I am not sure who has made enough time to make a difference and begin to evaluate who was not,” he said.
However, he added that he “thinks well or about whether people have. “I want everyone to say, you know, actually had a positive impact on the country.”
