Donald Trump Blasts Mitch McConnell for 'Giving the Democrats Victory on Everything'

Former U.S. President Donald Trump laid into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) again, after calling him a "Broken Old Crow" on December 10 for helping the Democrats lift the debt ceiling.

Despite previously pledging in October to force the Democrats to raise the debt ceiling using the Senate's potentially time-consuming budget reconciliation process, last week McConnell recruited Republican support to block a potential filibuster—he and 13 GOP senators voted to allow the Democrats to fast-track their bill. The debt ceiling is a limit Congress imposes on the federal government's debt.

In a statement on Sunday, Trump said: "Mitch McConnell is giving the Democrats victory on everything. What is wrong with this Broken Old Crow? He's hurting Republican Senators and the Republican Party. When will they vote him out of Leadership?

"He didn't have the guts to play the Debt Ceiling card, which would have given the Republicans a complete victory on virtually everything. The Dems were ready to fold! Watch, they will use Debt Ceiling against us at their first opportunity, and they won't fold. It will not be pretty. GET RID OF MITCH!"

Since Trump stepped down as president, McConnell has avoided talking much about Trump in public interviews. On December 6, McConnell was asked at the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Summit about the role the former president was playing in the mid-terms, and the Senate Minority leader said: "There always are a lot of voices."

Newsweek has contacted McConnell's office for comment.

On December 10, Trump reacted badly to the vote to fast-track the bill.

"Mitch McConnell, the Broken Old Crow, has just conceded, for absolutely nothing and for no reason, the powerful Debt Ceiling negotiating block, which was the Republicans' first-class ticket for victory over the Democrats," Trump said in a statement.

"He was afraid to play that card even though without question, they would have completely FOLDED on the Build Back Worse Bill, which will destroy the fabric of our Country and virtually anything else that the Republicans wanted."

Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) also criticized McConnell for adopting the bipartisan deal that allowed the Democrats to raise the debt ceiling.

"What I'm worried about is that for four months the Republican Senate said we would not lift a finger to help the Democrats raise the debt ceiling. We would make them use reconciliation," Graham told Fox News on Sunday.

"At the end, we did not make them use reconciliation, which changed the rules of the Senate in a House bill. I don't like that a lot. ... What we did is promised one thing and delivered another."