President Donald Trump took another shot at Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) on Friday, claiming the retiring senator ended his reelection campaign after being refused an endorsement.Tillis, a frequent Trump critic, announced in June of last year that he would not seek a third term in the Senate. The president would go on to endorse Michael Whatley, the former chair of the Republican National Committee, in the race to replace Tillis.“People don’t remember that Thom Tillis, the weak and ineffective Senator from the Great State of North Carolina, a State I won, including primaries, 6 consecutive times, didn’t have the courage to fight it out in the Senate, remain in place, and run again for office, a thing he desperately wanted to do,” the president wrote on Truth Social Friday morning.
“I called him a ‘Nitpicker,’ always fighting against the Republican Party, and ME, mostly on things that didn’t matter,” he wrote. “When I told him that I would not, under any circumstances, endorse him for another run, too much work and drama (he couldn’t have won, anyway!), he immediately quit the race and publicly announced that he was going to ‘retire.’ I said, ‘Wow, great news, that was easy!'”
Trump claimed that media reports claimed that Tillis was “brave” for objecting to the president’s agenda but argued that Tillis “was just the opposite – HE WAS A QUITTER!
