Posted on 11/09/2021 4:19:12 AM PST by RandFan
As President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was whisked to a secret location and cloistered with a handful of other top lawmakers.
The senator from Kentucky had spent the past four years as one of Trump’s chief enablers, boosting his election by keeping a Supreme Court seat open, pushing through his agenda with party-line votes and standing by for weeks as Trump falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen. But their marriage of political convenience had abruptly shattered three weeks earlier, when Trump exploded at McConnell for acknowledging Joe Biden’s victory.
Safely huddled with Democratic leaders as they watched video of police battling Trump supporters in the Capitol, McConnell reacted with anger and revulsion, according to Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), who was also in the secure location.
“I thought to myself, 'This could be a transformative moment. He appears to have taken this very seriously,’ ” recalled Durbin, who spent hours that day holed up with the Republican leader.
But when it came time to hold Trump to account, McConnell backed off. While seven GOP senators voted to convict Trump following his impeachment by the House for inciting an insurrection, McConnell supported acquittal, ensuring Trump would face no formal penalty for inciting an insurrection.
Ten months later, Trump is once again dominating the Republican Party, expected to run again in 2024 — and utterly disdainful of the Senate leader who helped save him. Trump dismissed McConnell as a “stupid person” and suggested his favored 2022 Senate candidates should oust McConnell from his leadership post when they get to Washington.
McConnell is not a “real leader” because “he didn’t fight for the presidency,” Trump said in an interview with The Washington Post.
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“Stormed”? “Battling”? Capital Police let them in. I gotta look at the author before wasting my time. Wapo
Easy. “Michael Kranish”
Plonk.
Within the title lies the problem. The left and GOPe see serving their nation as “chasing power.” Then they want to wield that power over others.
We need to repeal the 17th amendment and introduce term limits on all politicians unless we want the republic to keep going down this dark path to its ruin.
Just look at Biden: “I was patient. I allowed you to make the right choice. Now, I’m mandating the vaccine because we’ve lost our patience.” Not exact quotes, but darn close.
“...seven GOP senators voted to convict Trump following his impeachment by the House for...Bull Shit....in absentia as well...”
And they wonder why no one believes anything they say.
“ Where to start....”
I saw this 3 sentences in:
“ The senator from Kentucky had spent the past four years as one of Trump’s chief enablers”
I looked for the source, “WaPo:” and thought, ‘if I had seen that I would have stopped there.
Throughout human history, how many people have woken from their morning slumber, anticipating a normal day,
only to find themselves a moment of reflection before they were put down like rabid dogs.
The Romanovs, King Louis and Marie-Antoinette of France, Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu of Romania all come to mind.
These same type of events are scheduled for the coup plotters and “journalist” in the media. There will be no escape. ALL of them are going to face justice.
Trump is NOT responsible for what happened at the Capitol! Period. Case closed. How much longer are they going to beat this propaganda drum?
That guarantees we will impeach Dementia Joe in 2023.
WaPo...not fit for the bottom of the bird cage.
Here’s my quick scan and take:
Headline: “McConnell ...” (REDFLAG)
Headline: “Now he heeds Trump ...” (BS)
Source: “WAPO” (PREPARE TO PUKE)
1st Para: “Trump’s supporters stormed ...” (GAG)
2nd Para: “Trump falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen ...” (SPIT)
Okay, enough. Stop reading, note for file lefty ahole carrying this bilge:
“Michael Kranish”
This says it all..."inciting an insurrection" 3 words so fake and phony they need to appear TWICE IN A SINGLE SENTENCE for the propaganda machine to sell the big lie.
I would hope it's Day 1 in the new house.
no, there will never be the required votes in the senate
Mitch is nearly 80 years old, and he’s rich beyond imagination. Why is he still in the game? Because he is committed to the Deep State. It is what animates him. He will push the globalist agenda in some way until death.
Mitch is head of the useless party..they have all sold out to China...his wife’s relatives own one of the biggest shipping companies..doing business in China....the ports are a mess because there are way more containers than ten years ago...
Nothing about the BLM and Antifa crazies dressing up in MAGA gear and infiltrating the pro Trump people’s legitimate protest over a stolen election.
Nothing about the worthless FBI instigators.
Nothing about the Capitol police who said to the pro-Trump people, “Come on in, this is your house!”
But it’s Jeff Bozo and his rag, the Washington Compost, so we should not be surprised.
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