On January 6th, Mitch McConnell minced no words.
https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2021-01-06/read-mitch-mcconnells-statement-to-the-senate-on-the-storming-of-the-capitol
READ: Mitch McConnell's Statement to the Senate on the Storming of the Capitol
The Senate majority leader described the rioting as a 'failed insurrection.'
Jan. 6, 2021, at 9:59 p.m.
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I want to say to the American people the United States Senate will not be intimidated. We will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs or threats. We will not bow to lawlessness or intimidation. We are back at our posts. We will discharge our duty under the Constitution and for our nation. And we're going to do it tonight.
This afternoon, Congress began the process of honoring the will of the American people and counting the Electoral College votes. We have fulfilled the solemn duty every four years for more than two centuries. Whether our nation has been at war or at peace, under all manner of threats, even during an ongoing armed rebellion and the Civil War, the clockwork of our democracy has carried on.
The United States and the United States Congress have faced down much greater threats than the unhinged crowd we saw today. We've never been deterred before, and we will not be deterred today. They tried to disrupt our democracy. They failed. They failed. They failed to attempt to obstruct the Congress.
This failed insurrection only underscores how crucial the task before us is for our republic. Our nation was founded precisely so that the free choice of the American people is what shapes our self-government and determines the destiny of our nation – not fear, not force, but the peaceful expression of the popular will.
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In February, the
majority of the Senate voted to convict Trump, Mitch McConnell voted to acquit (he claimed)
not because Trump was
innocent, but because he was
no longer in office, and therefore beyond the reach of the Senate.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/mcconnell-remarks-trump-acquittal/index.html…
“We have no power to convict and disqualify a former officeholder who is now a private citizen.
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“The Senate’s decision does not condone anything that happened on or before that terrible day.
“It simply shows that Senators did what the former President failed to do:
“We put our constitutional duty first.”
(I’d say he’s been adjudicated.)
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