Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (screengrab)
Reacting to disparaging comments Donald Trump made about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at his Iowa rally on Saturday night, CNN reported that Republican senators are also unhappy and sniping at the longtime GOP leader's machinations.
Speaking with hosts Boris Sanchez and Laura Jarrett, CNN's Daniella Diaz reported on "infighting" within the party with several high-profile Republican senators grumbling about the Kentucky lawmaker.
After watching a clip of Trump raging at McConnell in Des Moines, Diaz explained "You're hearing him slam not only McConnell but the 11 Republicans that voted to advance this bill that would suspend the debt ceiling until December. He's not the only Republican leader to have criticized McConnell, some conservatives in the Senate also criticized McConnell for blinking. That includes, of course, [Senators] Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz."
"They were really disappointed that McConnell decided after weeks of saying he wasn't going to help Democrats with the debt ceiling, that he would help and blinked and reached an agreement," she continued. " So bottom line here, lots of party infighting."
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Now, A Republic County Sheriff's Office incident report obtained by Raw Story through the Kansas Open Records Act sheds additional light on the situation — one of the latest in a series of thefts from prominent political candidates and political action committees.
The incident report explains how Moran's campaign treasurer, Timothy E. Gottschalk, on Nov. 15 contacted the Republic County Sheriff's Office to report "fraudulent activity" related to the three-term senator's re-election committee.
The sheriff's office sent Deputy Kade Odell to Gottschalk's accounting office in Belleville, Kansas, to meet him.
"Gottschalk stated that they had received emails containing invoices that were found to be fraudulent," Odell wrote in a report. "Before this was discovered, wire transfers were authorized through Astra Bank of Bellevile, Kansas to pay the invoices provided with these fraudulent email."
Odell then sought aid from other agencies.
"I contacted the Kansas Bureau of Investigation requesting assistance on this same date," the deputy wrote. "I was then later advised that it would be referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to be investigated by the Kansas City FBI Cyber Crimes Task Force."
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