U.S. Senate Majority Leader McConnell Tells Former President Obama To 'Keep His Mouth Shut'

The Guardian: McConnell tells Obama to 'keep his mouth shut' after Trump criticism

* Comments on Flynn case and coronavirus response were leaked
* Senate majority leader calls former president ‘classless’

In an extraordinary statement against a former president, the Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has told Barack Obama to “keep his mouth shut” over criticism of Donald Trump, calling him “classless”.

Last week, remarks by Obama were leaked to Yahoo News that were highly critical about Trump and his administration, seeming to break a convention in US politics that former occupants of the White House rarely criticize their successors.

Speaking to alumni of his administration, Obama said he was worried about the “rule of law”, in light of the justice department’s decision to drop its case against the former national security adviser Michael Flynn. That’s the issue at the heart of Trump’s attempts to gin up an “Obamagate” scandal, which on Tuesday morning he again claimed “makes Watergate look small time!”

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WNU Editor: I disagree with the Senate Majority leader. I want the former President to talk as much as he wants.

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