In an unprecedented tone, President Trump attacked his fellow Republican lawmakers for turning their backs on him by refusing to object to the certification of the results of November’s election.
“The weak Republicans, and that’s it. I really believe it. I think I’m going to use the term the weak Republicans. You got a lot of them,” Trump said in a speech just before the start of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden’s electoral college victory.
Trump accused Republicans of turning “a blind eye even as Democrats enacted policies that chipped away our jobs, weakened our military, threw open our borders and put America last.”
The president then encouraged the crowd to”get your people to fight. And if they don’t fight, we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don’t fight. You primary them. We’re going to let you know who they are. I can already tell you, frankly.”
Trump has lashed out at Republican leaders in recent weeks for refusing to assist in overturning election results in several states. One of his main targets is Georgia Governor, Brian Kemp, who has always been a strong Trump supporter.
The president referred to Kemp as the “pathetic governor of Georgia” and urged the crowd to “vote him the hell out of office, please.”
Trump also called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Majority Whip John Thune for blocking the move by Trump supporters in Congress to object to the certification of the Electoral College vote.
He warned that “you better start looking at your leadership because your leadership had led you down the tubes.”
The president also blasted Representative Liz Cheney saying that “a year from now, you’re going to start working Congress and we got to get rid of the weak Congress people, the ones that aren’t any good, the Liz Cheneys of the world. We got to get rid of them.”
