Former President Trump
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“With leaders like Mitch McConnell, they are helpless to fight. He has not run for president, and he will not fight in court,” Trump said in a statement from the Save America PAC. “If and when this happens, I hope the judges remember the day they didn’t have the courage to do what they should have done for America.”
Trump said it would be “ironic” for the Democrats to rule the court after the current contingent of judges, led by Republicans 6-3, rejected election challenges by Trump and his allies in a number of states.
Trump nominated, and McConnell helped Shepherd to confirm, three of those judges during Trump’s only term in the White House.
The Hill has contacted McConnell for comment.
In the statement, Trump warned that the court would be “WRAPPED by the same people, the radical left Democrats (whom they fear so much!), That they so pathetically defended by not hearing the election fraud case.”
Trump’s comments come after Biden signed an executive order on Friday setting up a committee to investigate whether to add seats to the Supreme Court and other reform proposals.
The committee will investigate the issue of possible court expansion, which has been debated among progressives but heavily criticized by Republicans, including by Trump on the campaign trail.
In a statement On Friday, McConnell called the creation of Biden’s committee a “direct attack on our country’s independent judiciary and yet another sign of the influence of the far left on the Biden administration.”
“President Biden campaigned with a promise to lower the temperature and unite a divided nation. If he really meant it, he would stop oxygenating a dangerous outdated idea and stand up to the partisans who cheated it” he added later.
Trump regularly struggled with McConnell during his one-time presidency, culminating in the two men who stopped speaking after the January 6 riot at the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
Over the weekend, Trump called the Kentucky Republican a “stupid bastard” to members of the Republican National Committee for not doing more to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in his favor.