Report: Mitch McConnell Lied to GOP Senators About Ukraine Aid Being Tied to Biden's Performance In Closing the Border

The report claims further that GOP senators are sick enough of this repulsive foreign agent that his "leadership" is "in jeopardy".

Bradley Devlin:

To ensure real border security, "I pushed for making the Ukraine funding contingent on actual border metrics," like threshold and performance measures over a number of months, [Senator Ron] Johnson told TAC. "We definitely had a majority of our conference support that."

"The only way you can get border security with a lawless administration is you have to tie it to something they want," which was aid for Ukraine, Senator Rick Scott of Florida told TAC in a phone interview. "So a lot of us, and Ron Johnson was probably the most vocal on this, said we've got to have metrics and the numbers need to come down to the Trump numbers, or you don't get the Ukraine aid over a period of time."

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The reason the bill failed to secure the border, however, is because McConnell, after deputizing Lankford, prevented the senator from Oklahoma from attaching Ukraine aid to any real, concrete metric of bringing down the number of migrants entering the United States.

"Without telling anybody, apparently, McConnell, on his own, told Lankford that's not even on the table," Johnson said. Later, "we had that confirmed by Sinema, who said that James never asked for that." For Johnson, it was "a breach of [McConnell's] leadership position" by blowing off the consensus view of the conference.

McConnell is now pushing a standalone bill for Ukraine funding -- and abandoning any pretense of wanting to protect America's border at all.

Pivoting from one failed supplemental to likely another makes it "obvious that Mitch's top priority is to provide aid to Ukraine--to secure Ukraine's border before ours," Johnson claimed. As for the Senate, Johnson says "this is not the world's greatest deliberative body. We hardly deliberate at all."

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"I have no idea why we're doing it except for this: Senate leadership is obsessed," Vance told Bannon. It's "a borderline fetish with getting Ukraine money and they're willing to give away all of our leverage to get it. Everybody needs to say this is a no-go. Vote no on this package. It is the single most important thing to kill in the U.S. Senate since I've been here. The worst piece of legislation, I think, in the U.S. Senate since I've been here and we've got to absolutely get it out of here."

I don't see any quotes by Senators calling for McConnell to be deposed. The closest they come is to imply it:

"I am hoping my colleagues are really taking a close hard look and asking themselves, 'How did we get in a position where we're being blamed for a problem that was 100% caused by Biden and his Democrat allies in Congress?'" Johnson said. "McConnell led us into that."

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"There needs to be a change in how we manage and govern the conference," Scott said. "Everybody I talk to basically agrees. I don't know people who don't agree with me that we have to govern the conference a different way."

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:43 PM

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