Outgoing Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) did not hold back when giving a scathing assessment of the Republican Party and President Trump, saying GOP senators privately say Trump is “nuts.”
McCaskill in November lost her reelection bid to Republican Josh Hawley and will be leaving Washington in less than two weeks.
In an exit interview with CNN, she said when she speaks privately with Republican senators they tell her how they really feel about Trump.
“Now they’ll tell you, if it’s just the two of you, ‘The guy is nuts, he doesn’t have a grasp of the issues, he’s making rash decisions, he’s not listening to people who know the subject matter,’ ” she told CNN. “But in public if they go after him … they know they get a primary [challenger], and they know that’s tough.”
While McCaskill declined to name any specific senators, she did mention Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), saying, “I don’t know what happened with Lindsey.”
Graham has aligned himself with Trump on many issues but has recently rebuked the president on his handling of foreign diplomacy decisions, including Trump’s move to pull U.S. troops from Syria.
However, McCaskill acknowledged that the GOP has largely molded itself around Trump.
“This is Donald Trump’s Republican Party,” McCaskill said. “Make no mistake about it.”
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And so do the rest of us not enamored with Little Donnie.
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