Posted on 09/21/2022 7:05:26 AM PDT by RandFan
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) came closer than previously reported to voting to convict former President Trump in the impeachment trial that followed the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, according to a new book set to be released next month.
The Washington Post released an excerpt from “UNCHECKED: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump,” by the Post’s Karoun Demirjian and Politico’s Rachel Bade, that discusses how McConnell wrestled with whether to vote to convict Trump for inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
McConnell was pleased to see the wide range of Republicans who had turned against Trump following the riot and called on him to resign. But he was “stunned” by the speed at which the GOP turned back to support Trump, with only 10 House Republicans voting in favor of impeachment, the excerpt states.
McConnell knew many Senate Republicans would look to him for guidance on how to vote on a motion from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) about whether the conviction of a president who was no longer in office was constitutionally permitted.
The House voted to impeach Trump a week before the end of his term, but the Senate trial would not begin until after he left office.
The authors based the information in the excerpt on interviews with people familiar with McConnell’s thinking and deliberations. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity to “speak candidly.”
McConnell was drawn to voting to convict Trump, an outcome that would have potentially barred him from running for office again.
“We’ve all known that Trump is crazy,” he reportedly told aides following the insurrection. “I’m done with him. I will never speak to him again.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Where are they all covering Biden's presidency? 🙄
McConnel is first a politician so the truth takes a back seat to career threats and opportunities.
THROW THE FREAKING POLITICIAN BUMS OUT!!!
Drain the SWAMP both D and R!
McConnell was jealous of Trump for taking away the possibility of running for President himself. McConnell has the financial backing of the CCP through his Chinese wife.
* spelling intentional
McConnell is the heart of the deep-state, or rather, the deep-state’s partners/representative/agent in Congress.
The Pubbies have your back (and their knives are in it!).
*Yawn*. No surprise.
probably wasn’t sure what Trump had on him
McConnell is a bronze colored turd.Scrape off the bronze an underneath stinks to high heaven! The sooner he is primaried or passes....he’s in his 80’s the better Kentucky an the Republic will be!
LEX
WE ALL KNOW this is true tell me WHY IN THE HELL we keep voting them back into office FOR A LIFETIME!! We have only ourselves to blame how does the saying go…..doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome is INSANITY!!!
So sick of the “insurrection” crap.
What went on with the Russian Collusion lie was an attempted insurrection. What went on in 2020 with police building being burned, government buildings being stormed, that was was an insurrection.
January 6th? That was just a box of stupid and, at best, a riot where the only person who got killed was a rioter.
Well,since biteme isn’t the President.......🙄
I have this theory he worked with Cheney. Their hugely miscalculated theory was that a name like Cheney voting to impeach would bring a wave of other Representatives voting in favor of impeaching. This would then give cover to enough RINO Senators to do the same.
However, when they only got 10 of the squishiest losers to do it in the House, and saw the backlash, he realized his plan was toast and shifted gears. He is pure slime.
President Trump is in the news as much as Biden if not more.
Another reason McConnell’s reign as Republican leader in the Senate must come to end after the mid-terms.
The Turtle is always consistent. Concerned for himself not the truth
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.