Early Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump excoriated four Republican U.S. senators who bucked his demand to implement sharp new tariffs on Canadian imports, calling the cadre “disloyal” for their recent votes.
It has been “extremely difficult” to deal with mavericks in the GOP, especially those intent on settling old scores or making a point rather than sticking together, Trump said in a lengthy social media post shortly before 1 a.m. on Wednesday.
“Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy,” Trump declared on his Truth Social account.
Breaking rank only serves to project weakness, he added.
“They are playing with the lives of the American people, and right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats and Drug Cartels. The Senate Bill is just a ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness