Levin Rips Trump for Putting ‘Finger on the Scale’ in AL Sen Race: ‘The President Stabbed Us in the Back’

On his Wednesday broadcast, conservative talker Mark Levin slammed President Donald Trump for his endorsement of Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) in next week’s U.S. Senate special election GOP primary. Trump made the announcement via Twitter a night earlier, which Levin, author of “Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism,” said was the equivalent of stabbing “every conservative in this country” in the back. “Now, I have to say, the president of the United States did something yesterday that was a stab the back to every conservative in this country,” Levin said. “Conservatives around this country, for the most part, have been very supportive of this president. Conservatives around this country want this president to succeed, even though we may not agree with him in every respect. But we know what’s being done to him by the media, the Democrats and the rest is outrageous, undermines our republic. We conservatives are a good people, we’re a thoughtful people – but the president stabbed us in the back yesterday.” Levin went on to call Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a “deplorable hack” and explained how McConnell used the legislative process to make it possible for the Senate Leadership Fund, a political action