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- Donald Trump blasted Mitch McConnell and GOP lawmakers who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
- Trump also claimed that McConnell scuttled a $2 trillion deal during his tenure in 2019.
- But Trump walked out of $2 trillion infrastructure talks with Democratic leaders within 3 minutes.
Former President Donald Trump lambasted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after 13 House Republicans and 19 GOP senators voted with Democrats to pass the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the former president reprised his "old crow" moniker for McConnell and said, "he was incapable of getting a great Infrastructure Plan wanting to be put forward by me and the Republican Party?"
"He continuously said he couldn't get it passed, just like I had to go around him to get the very popular Southern Border Wall built," Trump continued, referring to an emergency declaration he signed to get access to funds for a wall at the border.
However, it was Trump, himself, who tanked negotiations on a $2 trillion infrastructure package in 2019
In May 2019, Democratic leaders and the Trump administration had a productive first round of negotiations around a floated $2 trillion infrastructure package.
However, the deal crumbled over the Democratic-controlled House investigations into Trump following the release of former special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
During a second meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Trump walked out within three minutes of negotiations.
"Instead of walking in happily to a meeting, I walk in to look at people that just said that I was doing a cover-up. I don't do cover-ups," Trump said at a press conference in the White House Rose Garden flanked by a sign that said "No Collusion, No Obstruction."
Pelosi had earlier that day accused Trump of a "cover-up" for ignoring congressional subpoenas.
The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that is awaiting President Joe Biden's signature will fund, in part, improvements to roads and bridges, clean energy, electric vehicles, and more. It passed in the House on Friday with a vote of 228-206, after passing the Senate in August with 19 Republicans, including McConnell, voting in favor.