Tag: Mitch

Mitch McConnell mocks protesters who broke into a Columbia building making a list of “vegan dietary restrictions.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday mocked pro-Palestinian protesters who broke into Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall last week and made “a list of their comrades with vegan dietary restrictions.” “University administrators caving to the mob only validates the performative tactics of wannabe revolutionaries, like [those] whose first order of business upon breaking into a […]

Mitch McConnell Blames Tucker Carlson For The GOP’s ‘Demonization of Ukraine’

WASHINGTON ― Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) unexpectedly ripped Tucker Carlson on Tuesday, saying the far-right political commentator was to blame for Republicans souring on helping Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s invasion. Shortly after the Senate voted to advance a bipartisan bill providing billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine, McConnell was asked during […]

Former Kentucky swimmers sue ex-coaches, AD Mitch Barnhart, alleging ‘sexually hostile environment’

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Two former Kentucky swim team members have sued the school, former coach Lars Jorgensen and athletic director Mitch Barnhart, alleging sexual assaults including rape by the former coach and claiming the school “purposefully” disregarded multiple credible reports of inappropriate sexual relationships. The lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court by former […]

Alabama GOP senator praises Mitch McConnell for mentorship

At the University of Louisville on Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell praised freshman U.S. Sen. Katie Britt for being the perfect Republican choice to “contrast” President Joe Biden as she delivered her party’s response to the State of the Union address last month. “There is no better choice to contrast President Biden and his […]

Author Mitch Albom evacuated from Haiti amid gang violence and unrest

American author Mitch Albom was evacuated from Haiti amid ongoing gang violence and unrest. Albom, 65, was visiting his orphanage Have Faith Haiti when he found himself stranded. “The airports were closed, the ports were closed, the roads were closed and suddenly we had no way out,” the “Tuesdays with Morrie” author said. Albom was […]

Nancy Pelosi Calls Mitch McConnell’s Trump Endorsement ‘Very, Very Sad’

The past four decades have seen House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s parallel rise in their respective parties’ leadership on each side of the Capitol. So when Pelosi was asked during a Friday interview with MSNBC to comment on McConnell’s recent endorsement of former President Donald Trump, she reflected on […]