Former President Donald Trump is blasting The Wall Street Journal editorial board after the publication suggested Republicans would be better off without him.
“The Wall Street Journal editorial page continues, knowingly, to fight for globalist policies such as bad trade deals, open borders, and endless wars that favor other countries and sell out our great American workers, and they fight for RINOS that have so badly hurt the Republican Party,” Trump said in a statement.
He added, “That’s where they are and that’s where they will always be. Fortunately, nobody cares much about The Wall Street Journal editorial anymore. They have lost great credibility.”
The former president mentioned the Senate races Republicans lost in Georgia. The editorial board suggested he “cost the GOP” the seats, as IJR reported.
“He proceeded to lose the White House on Nov. 3, and he cost the GOP two Georgia Senate races on Jan. 5 as he made his claims of election fraud the main issue rather than checking Mr. Biden and Nancy Pelosi,” the editorial reads.
Trump claimed there are two reasons Republicans lost, and neither had to do with him.
“First, Republicans did not turn out to vote because they were so angry and disappointed with Georgia Republican leadership and Governor Kemp,” he said.
Trump argued they did not “stand up to Stacey Abrams and the disastrous Consent Decree that virtually eliminated signature verification requirements across the state (and much worse), and was not approved by the State Legislature as required by the Constitution.”
He continued, “Second, Senator Mitch McConnell’s refusal to go above $600 per person on the stimulus check payments when the two Democrat opponents were touting $2,000 per person in ad after ad.”
The former president argued the $2,000 will be approved anyway “by the Democrats who bought the Georgia election—and McConnell let them do it!”
He closed his statement by reiterating his criticism of McConnell, “Even more stupidly, the National Republican Senatorial Committee spent millions of dollars on ineffective TV ads starring Mitch McConnell, the most unpopular politician in the country.”
Trump suggested the only reason McConnell won Kentucky was because he endorsed him.