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NK Tribune: Bill Straub: Play with fire, get burned; Trump is making that clear when it comes to Mitch McConnell

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By BILL STRAUB

Northern Kentucky Tribune

It would be inaccurate to maintain that former President Donald J. Trump has finally gone off the rails — the Orange Menace was already and has for a long time been a psychological train wreck.

But his most recent fascination babbled ad infinitum over a series of emails dispensed to his followers, firmly establishes that the man 77 million people thought should be returned to the most powerful and influential position in the world is demented and should be found nowhere other than a convalescent home.

Over the past week, Trump has rabidly attacked his one-time ally, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, of Louisville, in a series of missives that increasingly show him drowning in the deepest part of the deep end. He has displayed great delight in calling McConnell a “broken old crow” while accusing him of a barrel-load of sins both real and imagined.

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