'Clean up his staff’s messes': McConnell rips Trump over 'strategic incoherence'

08 July

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Politicos say Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) did not hold back while crediting President Donald Trump for eventually agreeing to help a U.S. ally fend off an invasion by its Russian neighbor.

“McConnell not mincing words here,” said Politico reporter Anthony Adragna on X.

The Tuesday press release from the veteran senator praised Trump for backing Ukraine, but also blasted him over his hesitance up to this point.

“Today, the strategic incoherence of underfunding our military and restricting lethal assistance to partners like Ukraine is measured in the avoidable erosion of American credibility with allies and the mounting deaths of innocents,” wrote McConnell, who praised Trump for his willingness to “resume deliveries of lethal capabilities to Ukraine” after freezing air defense tools last month.

But ABC journalist Ben Siegel posted on X that McConnell also warned Trump to “ignore” people in his administration who want to send only defensive weapons.

“… [T]he President will need to reject calls from the isolationists and restrainers within his administration to limit these deliveries to defensive weapons. And he should disregard those at [Department of Defense] who invoke munitions shortages to block aid while refusing to invest seriously in expanding munitions production,” McConnell wrote.

The senator described the cold feet in Trump's administration as “self-indulgent policy-making” that has “so often required the President to clean up his staff’s messes.”

He added that the budget the Office of Management and Budget “sent to Congress does not put America on a path to peace through strength.”

See Sen. McConnell’s original press release at this link.

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