Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Bill Cassidy on Monday, calling the Louisiana Republican “one of the worst senators in the United States Senate.”
Trump, 77, who supported Cassidy during his 2020 re-election campaign, was furious that senators voted to convict Cassidy in 2021 in an impeachment trial for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. did.
“Total flak, he may be a Republican,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee wrote. society of truth.
Cassidy was one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict Trump of inciting insurrection.
“Cassidy is a total ‘straight,’ but Louisiana didn’t need him to protect them because they had me 100% on them!” Trump wrote. “And yet, when the Democratic impeachment hoax started, this lame-brain senator actually voted against me.”
“He thought it was very ‘cool’ until he got home, but he was bombarded with a lot of profanity, literally everything that can be used for such a disgraceful event, especially words. .”
The former president said Cassidy was “too busy bashing the crooked political opponents of Joe Biden, the communists, fascists, and lunatics who have weaponized the government against me, to think about it much.” However, Trump has previously slammed the senator.
Mr. Trump claimed that Mr. Cassidy had considered running for governor of the Bayou state last year, but decided against it because he supported Republican Jeff Landry.
“Bill Cassidy is now shunned in his own state as a dishonest frivolous, and it’s a beautiful thing to see,” the former president said.
Last year, Cassidy declared that President Trump “cannot win” the 2024 White House race, insisting that President Biden and Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis were the only viable options.
Mr. DeSantis withdrew from the presidential primary race earlier this year, and many polls show Mr. Trump leading Mr. Biden in a rematch of the 2020 election.
More recently, Cassidy criticized President Trump in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” in March, calling the former president’s comments about immigrants entering the country illegally “inhumane.”
“That’s why so many people continue to have reservations,” Cassidy said. “And I say the best thing for Donald Trump to run for president is to run against Joe Biden, who a lot of people are worried about as well. Frankly, That’s why people consider third parties. So it’s an unfortunate situation.”
Cassidy is one of 15 Republican senators who have not yet endorsed Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
The newspaper has contacted Cassidy’s office for comment.
