Mitch McConnell Says It’s ‘Pretty Obvious’ Trump ‘Doesn’t Know A Lot About the Issues’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that it was “pretty obvious” that Donald Trump “doesn’t know a lot about the issues.”

McConnell made the comments on Bloomberg Politics’ Masters in Politics podcast.

“He needs someone highly experienced and very knowledgeable because it’s pretty obvious he doesn’t know a lot about the issues,” McConnell said. “You see that in the debates in which he’s participated. It’s why I have argued to him publicly and privately that he ought to use a script more often—there is nothing wrong with having prepared texts.”

McConnell has been critical of Trump, saying that he needs to stop attacking minorities and people of color. He said he disagreed with Trump’s remarks that an Indiana-born federal judge was unfit to preside over the Trump University lawsuit because of his Mexican heritage. He called them “totally inappropriate,” though he wouldn’t label the comments “racist,” as House Speaker Paul Ryan did.

“I object to a whole series of things that he’s said—vehemently object to them. I think all of that needs to stop. Both the shots at people he defeated in the primary and these attacks on various ethnic groups in the country,” McConnell said on the podcast.

Though he still affirmed, “I’m comfortable supporting him.”

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