The latest victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome? The first American pontifex maximus of the Roman Catholic Church, apparently.
In a speech on the Senate floor this week, GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri criticized Senate Democrats for holding up the vote of President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the Vatican, Brian Burch.
This meant that, while Burch was in Rome for the installation of Pope Leo XIV — born in Chicago, as you doubtlessly know right now — we have no actual ambassador to the Holy See.
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In his remarks on the Senate floor earlier this week, after Democrats blocked a floor vote on Burch, who was head of pro-Trump religious organization CatholicVote, Schmitt didn’t mince words.
Schmitt said in a post on X
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