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McConnell: Trump 'provoked' crowd that stormed Capitol
thehill.com ^ | 01/19/21 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 01/19/2021 12:14:28 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper

Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday accused President Trump of provoking the violent crowd that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

“The last time the Senate convened, we had just reclaimed the Capitol from violent criminals who tried to stop Congress from doing our duty. The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people,” McConnell said on the Senate floor, marking the first convening of the full Senate since the attack.

McConnell’s statements carry significance ahead of an anticipated Senate impeachment trial. The GOP leader has told colleagues he hasn’t yet decided how he would vote on a House-passed article of impeachment against Trump.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: capitol; donaldtrump; magariot; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; nevertrumper; trump; turtlebrain
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To: ConservativeMind
This is an example of why the GOP does not look “reformable.”

Many of us on FR have been saying this for quite some time. The party is not salvageable. It's dead. Put it on the other side of the grass where it can lie with McCain and start over with a new name, new branding but original conservative values.

61 posted on 01/19/2021 12:46:32 PM PST by libh8er
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They didn’t even have the smarts to wait until Trump is out to show their true demon selves, Pence and McConnell. I’d love to see both of them dropped from a U.S. military plane over a shark filled ocean, as they are clearly enemies of America. They are so reprehensible, such traitors, that the sharks would probably refuse to touch them. Oh well, there’s always orcas...


62 posted on 01/19/2021 12:47:07 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Berlin_Freeper

He’s one of my Senators and I just fired off an email to tell him that I’m ashamed of him if he really did say this.


63 posted on 01/19/2021 12:48:40 PM PST by libertylover (This is not your Founding Fathers' United States of America anymore.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I HOPE he is saying this as a sop to people who hate Trump, and not as a signal to how any future Senate votes about Trump will go.


64 posted on 01/19/2021 12:51:05 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

No “not a while”. He will go when his puppet masters no longer have any use for him, but not until then. Pretty disgusting.


65 posted on 01/19/2021 12:53:33 PM PST by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

By that logic, it’s more plausible that 0dumbo and his wingman “provoked” the cop-killers after the Fergus0n r10ts.


66 posted on 01/19/2021 12:53:44 PM PST by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Comitii asinorum atque rhinocerorum delendi sunt.)
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Is there a depends for the mouth?

I can see we’re going to need freight cars filled with them
over the next four years.

Mitch, you dumb ass fool. This was planned days if not
longer before the event, by a number of ANTIFA orgs.

Please stand down. You’re killin us with your lame ass
false impressions, that serve to lead astray people who
are as uninformed as you are.


67 posted on 01/19/2021 12:53:55 PM PST by DoughtyOne (2021: Notice the Communists have lists of things to do. 2016: Notice Mitch and Paul didn't.)
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To: libertylover

Is there a chance Kentuckians could recall / impeach Mitch ? The skinny is that his margin of victory was way, way, waaay out of balance with other races and polling which hinted at a coziness with Dominion.......ah ha ! another reason to bury DjT.


68 posted on 01/19/2021 12:54:20 PM PST by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: bray

That is actually what I have prayed for for the last several years. Let everything be exposed. No more hiding. Sunlight kills viruses and vermin.


69 posted on 01/19/2021 12:55:03 PM PST by richardtavor ( )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

McConnell seems to really want to be the man most responsible for ending the Republican Party.


70 posted on 01/19/2021 12:58:06 PM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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71 posted on 01/19/2021 1:01:29 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

There won’t be any impeachment trial, so this is just MCConnell positioning himself to have to live with Schumer. Throwing Trump under the bus at this point serves no other purpose.


72 posted on 01/19/2021 1:02:41 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Are you watching Kentucky?


73 posted on 01/19/2021 1:07:14 PM PST by eeriegeno
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To: Berlin_Freeper

China Mitch is compromised. Must silence Trump.


74 posted on 01/19/2021 1:10:46 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Potemkin Joe - Everything about him is fake)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

It is interesting that in simply stealing full control of government, the Democrat Party is simultaneously completely destroying the GOP.

The elections are rigged, and now they don’t matter, anyway, since the opposition has vaporized.

(McConell speaks for China, by the way, operated by that horses’s-ass wife of his.)


75 posted on 01/19/2021 1:12:18 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Makes as much sense as claiming that the Democrats provoked them by stealing the election.


76 posted on 01/19/2021 1:17:26 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam, )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Yertle McTurtle - the guy who squandered the GOP Senate majority.


77 posted on 01/19/2021 1:18:38 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: Arm_Bears
Yertle McTurtle - the guy who squandered the GOP Senate majority.

He's laughing all the way to the bank of China.

78 posted on 01/19/2021 1:20:08 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Pilated

Nothing worse than a weak, back stabber. Nothing.


79 posted on 01/19/2021 1:20:09 PM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
He and Schumer can take long hot baths together.


80 posted on 01/19/2021 1:22:53 PM PST by McGruff (Remain calm, stay in your homes and wear a mask.)
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