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Louisville Courier-Journal: Gerth: McConnell attacking Obama over 'tradition' is a laugh

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By JOSEPH GERTH

Mitch McConnell said Monday night that former President Barack Obama “should have kept his mouth shut” and that it was “classless” for him to criticize President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

"You had your shot, you were there for eight years. I think the tradition that the Bushes set up — of not critiquing the president who comes after you — is a good tradition,” McConnell told Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, on a Trump campaign livestream.

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