Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Slams Tucker Carlson & Donald Trump For Delaying Foreign Aid Package To Ukraine & Israel

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump after senators approved a $95 million foreign aid package that would send funds to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

Under the law, the United States will send $60 billion in support to Ukraine, $17 billion for Israel, $9 billion in humanitarian aid for Gaza and $8 billion to Taiwan.

“I think the demonization of Ukraine began by Tucker Carlson, who, in my opinion, ended up – or he should have been all along – which is interviewing Vladimir Putin,” McConnell told reporters during a news conference. 

“And so, he had an enormous audience, which convinced a lot of rank-and-file Republicans that maybe this was a mistake,” he added. “I think the former president had sort of mixed reviews on it. We all felt the border was a complete disaster, myself included.”

The Senate minority leader went on to talk about the negotiation phases.

“First, it was an effort to make law, which requires you to deal with Democrats,” he mentioned. “And then a number of our members thought it wasn’t good enough. And then our nominee for president didn’t seem to want us to do anything at all.”

“That took months to work our way through it, so we ended up doing the supplemental that was originally proposed, which dealt with not all the problems,” McConnell stated. “It didn’t solve the border problem but certainly addressed the growing threat at the moment.”

A panel of pundits responded to McConnell’s comments on CNN This Morning.

“Vladimir, Putin, Tucker Carlson, Mitch McConnell walk into a bar – question mark,” CNN correspondent Kasie Hunt. 

“Yeah, I mean, Who’s missing in that sentence,” political analyst Ron Brownstein asked. “Donald Trump.”

“I mean, sure, Tucker Carlson ended up where he should have been interviewing Vladimir Putin,” Brownstein admitted. “But Mitch McConnell is kind of punching down and kind of ignoring the elephant – I guess, of the Republican Party – in the room, which is Donald Trump and Donald Trump’s demonization of Ukraine.”

Even though he believed that “in the end, [Trump] was hands off, but certainly his opposition” known as “Eric Schmidt, the senator from Missouri, who pointed out on the first vote when the Senate – when majority Senate Republicans voted against this as a standalone – that virtually everyone elected to the Senate – every Republican elected Senate after 2018 voted against it.”

He then went on to say that “the Republicans in the Trump era” are “dubious of America’s traditional role” and that “there is still, obviously, a piece of the Republican Party that is supportive of that.

“But the direction of the party in the Trump era is towards skepticism about America as kind of the Reaganite leader of the free world,” Brownstein declared. “And that, I think, adds to the pressure of those center-right suburban Republican voters who have felt more and more marginalized in the Trump era.”

In another news regarding McConnell, Blanco County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office released details about the unexpected death of his sister-in-law, Angela Chao, the billionaire CEO of a shipping company, last month.

A 62-page incident report found that Chao had been under the influence of alcohol when she accidentally reversed her Tesla into a lake at a Texas ranch, which led to her death.