Igor Bobic is a senior HuffPost reporter who covers Congress, the White House, and political campaigns. He can be reached at [email protected] and is on Twitter @igorbobic.
The two men even shook hands, a remarkable turn of events given their icy relationship after Trump sought to overturn his 2020 election loss, culminating in a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.“We had a really positive meeting,” McConnell told reporters afterward. “He and I got a chance to talk, we shook hands a few times. He got a lot of standing ovations, it was an entirely positive meeting ... I can’t think of anything to tell you out of it that was negative.
McConnell publicly tore into the former president for inciting a mob to march on Congress. Trump responded by launching dozens of attacks against McConnell, calling him “On Thursday, however, Trump was well-mannered and gracious toward McConnell, praising his vote-counting abilities as longtime Senate GOP leader, a position he is relinquishing after the November elections.“He said several times, ‘I know some of you, we’ve had our disagreements in the room, but we have those and we work them out.
Several of Trump’s GOP critics also attended the meeting, including Sens. Mitt Romney , Bill Cassidy and Todd Young . Romney, who voted to convict Trump in both of his impeachment trials, declined to comment afterward. Cassidy, who voted to convict Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 attack, said he planned to work with Trump if he is elected president.
“It’s my job to work for my state and for the country, and whoever the president is, I’m going to work my darndest to make sure that we’ve worked together for my state and our country,” Cassidy told HuffPost.Trump’s visit to Capitol Hill was his first since the Jan. 6 insurrection and follows his conviction in New York over falsifying business records in order to hide payments to an adult film star.
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