Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (RINO-KY) is going out with what he surely considers a ‘bang’ as he once again was the only gop vote against Trump’s cabinet picks.
The Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as America’s new Secretary of Health and Human Services Thursday, by a 52-48 margin. Every Democrat opposed his nomination, while McConnell chose to stand against his constituents’ will and the direction President Trump set.
As Fox News’s Chad Pergram reported, McConnell gave a nasty speech on the Senate floor following the vote explaining why he voted against RFK Jr and the Make America Healthy Again movement.
McConnell first turned to a predictable target every critic has used against RFK. Jr: vaccines.
“I’m a survivor of childhood polio,” McConnell said. “In my lifetime, I’ve watched vaccines save millions of lives from devastating diseases across America and around the world.
“I will not condone the re-litigation of proven cures, and neither will millions of Americans who credit their survival and quality of life to scientific miracles.”
McConnell then viciously attacked RFK Jr. as a “dangerous conspiracy theorist” and accused him of “eroding trust in public institutions.” It should be noted McConnell never used this