About a month before the 2022 midterm elections, Donald Trump went after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in an unusually ugly way, suggesting the Republican lawmaker “has a DEATH WISH” for legislating in ways the former president didn’t like.
But Trump didn’t stop there. In the same online missive, he thought some racism would help his case. McConnell “must immediately seek help and advise [sic] from his China loving wife, Coco Chow!” the Republican added, referring to Elaine Chao.
In other words, the former president not only raised the specter of political violence against his own party’s Senate leader, he also published a racist message against the senator’s wife, who happens to have served in Trump’s cabinet as transportation secretary.
Ever since, he’s repeatedly targeted his former cabinet secretary, whom he now routinely derides as “Coco Chow,” suggesting he finds juvenile racism entertaining. This week, the former president went so far as to…
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