Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pennsylvania) praised the release of a speech delivered by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) during the partial government shutdown in 2019. The senator made the comments based on a Facebook post revealing McConnell’s residence, as seen by Breitbart News.
Wilde, who is running for reelection against Republican Ryan McKenzie in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District, made the concerning comments in response to a Jan. 16, 2019, post on the Facebook account of a man named Paul Lichty.
In its post, Richti published McConnell’s speech, though Breitbart News will not link to it out of consideration for McConnell’s safety and security.
“Someone should put up a sign,” Wilde wrote in a post from her Facebook account.
“Certainly!” Lichty replied.
“It’s just outside Washington, where a lot of the working-class people live,” Wilde wrote back, seemingly pondering where to put up a sign with his address, “close enough that they can come and ‘visit’ him.”
“We want thousands of people to come together and have the conversation,” Lichty said.
At the time, McConnell was under intense pressure after refusing to move forward with a bill to reopen the government unless it was supported by then-President Donald Trump, who had made it clear he would not sign any bill to reopen the government unless it included border funding.
On January 15, 2016, the day before the speech’s personal details were released and Wilde’s remarks were made, McConnell had blocked two bills to reopen the government that Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) had sought to agree to. hill I got it..
McConnell said the Senate “is not going to participate in anything that doesn’t get results.”
“The solution to this problem is a negotiation between the president of the United States, the only person who can sign laws into law in this country, and my Democratic colleagues,” he added.
President Donald J. Trump honors Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell during a federal judge confirmation event in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, November 6, 2019. (Official White House Photo by Sheila Craighead)
Associated Press video show On January 16, 2019, the same day Wilde asked for her speech to be posted on billboards, federal officials also protested outside McConnell’s office.
Finally, on January 25, 2019, President Trump signed a three-week stopgap measure to end the partial government shutdown.
Wilde’s comments came after years of harsh rhetoric against Trump and MAGA voices from leading figures on the left, including President Joe Biden, and shortly after Trump was nearly assassinated in her home state of Pennsylvania.
Breitbart News reached out to Wilde’s office on Friday and again on Sunday for comment about his 2019 Facebook comments but did not receive a response.
Protesters have previously shown up on the doorsteps of McConnell’s homes in Louisville and Washington, DC.
In September 2020, more than 100 protesters descended on McConnell’s Louisville home after he said he would work to fill the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Courier Journal report at that time.
In November 2021, demonstrators from ShutDownDC traveled to his home in the nation’s capital to protest his filibuster of Democratic bills. WDRB I got it..
