Trump Rages at Mitch McConnell in Crazed Rants—Showing How He Cows GOP

On Thursday, after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got confirmed as secretary of health and human services, Mitch McConnell, the only Republican to vote “no,” issued a powerful statement citing RFK’s anti-vax conspiracy theories and crediting vaccines for saving millions of lives around the world. That prompted two unhinged, angry rants from Trump, in which he absolutely savaged McConnell as a loser, a failure, and worse. We talked to veteran congressional observer Norm Ornstein, who explains what this Trump-McConnell rift tells us about Trump’s ability to terrorize today’s GOP into submission—and why we can’t count on Republicans to stand up to him going forward. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.