McConnell Speaks Out Against Trump

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McConnell didn't allow the Democrats to convict Trump, as many of them had been trying to do since his election.

However, he has spoken out strongly twice with regard to Trump guilt in the matter. Before the insurrection, he acknowledged Biden's victory immediately after the states certified their electors on December 14th. He indicated a couple of weeks ago that Trump had clearly committed impeachable acts. And today, he repeated the attack on Trump's actions.

IMO, after what could have happened to members and to Pence, McConnell found it necessary to denounce Trump's actions in clear terms. HOWEVER, as leader of the Republican contingent in the Senate, he couldn't vote to convict. Impeachment is, after all, a political decision. The illusion of being a "jury" is just that.
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McConnell will now be fighting against the Trump side of the party for the next 6 years. It will be a difficult fight. Make no mistake, he is no friend of the Democrats; he will certainly do a lot to disrupt Biden's agenda.
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As far as 2022 is concerned, the Democrats should be in very good shape. The state of the country will be greatly improved in November 2022. The economy will be improved and COVID will be in the past, except perhaps for a annual vaccine, as is the case for flu.

The Senate should be safe. However, it will be take a 2 year effort to retain the control of the House, given gerrymandering and the continuing efforts of Republican state legislators to suppress votes.
 

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HOWEVER, as leader of the Republican contingent in the Senate, he couldn't vote to convict.
Frankly, this is BS. As was his "constitutionality" excuse - seeing how he was the one who created the situation that made it "unconstitutional" in his eyes.
 
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McConnell is a moral coward who is only interested in his own power and influence. His speech means nothing.
Agreed. Also, I have no respect for anyone that even defends Trump at all.
 
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The pile of evidence is so large so high in proving or showing that in FACT again it is the accusing party of where the TRUE guilt lies period. And let us be very clear that Pelosi and then ALL the dem clan is the first one needing to be cut-off and banned from ALL and ANY media be it news media or social.
Proven over and over that again democrats are the ones, planing, hiring and paying for the rioters to destroy, threaten, harm and kill. The DC mob was not citizen protests NO it was hirired and paid violent mindless thugs. Rushing and attacking law enforcement, destroying/burning buildings, homes and buisness's and then again the very same evil guilty democrats are and have been funding the bail for the rioters. Right from the start of President Trump taking office.
 
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McConnell is a moral coward who is only interested in his own power and influence. His speech means nothing.

I think he showed immense cowardice today.

He had the chance to do the right thing and he failed.
 
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McConnell is a moral coward who is only interested in his own power and influence. His speech means nothing.

Given that he had just gotten finished doing everything in his power not to hold Trump accountable it's hard to take a spoken rebuke seriously.
 
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Frankly, this is BS. As was his "constitutionality" excuse - seeing how he was the one who created the situation that made it "unconstitutional" in his eyes.

Right. So, he is admitting that he neglected to do his constitutional duty either in January when the issue came up or now and voting against his better judgment.

I say hogwash.
 
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I think he showed immense cowardice today.

He had the chance to do the right thing and he failed.

You would have had McConnell vote for conviction, have Trump be acquitted, and have McConnell be forced to re-sign as majority leader, and from the leadership. Perhaps, you think that unifying the Republican Party under the Trumpers, and giving them the leadership of the Senate is someohow a good idea.

As McConnell and Trump's lawyers have said, the best redress for trump's action is for him to go to jail. Barring him from running again isn't an empty threat compared to the possible legal ramifications.
 
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McConnell did not want a victory for Trump.

McConnell didn't want a loss for himself. As you other post indicated if he voted against the majority of his caucus he would lose. If there had been at least a dozen more willing to vote for conviction, McConnell probably would have. The last thing McConnell is going to do is lead on a tough decision.
 
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Frankly, this is BS. As was his "constitutionality" excuse - seeing how he was the one who created the situation that made it "unconstitutional" in his eyes.

I don't understand your point. How does what you say make it more reasonable for McConnell to make the political vote to convict? This trial was a NOT a legal proceeding, and should be judged on political grounds. There are hundreds of political ploys in the Senate every year. You are judging that the REASON given for the Republican vote wasn't a valid one. So what? The issue is the vote. Who cares why each senator voted as they did. Did Manchin even want a trial. How many Democrats greatly preferred a censure vote.
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Let's be clear. I agree with having trial. Getting the information before the voters was a great idea. It will be good for the people to be on the side of the prosecutors in the dozens of Trump cases to come.
 
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McConnell didn't want a loss for himself. As you other post indicated if he voted against the majority of his caucus he would lose. If there had been at least a dozen more willing to vote for conviction, McConnell probably would have. The last thing McConnell is going to do is lead on a tough decision.

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You indicate that if McConnell could have rallied the votes to convict, he would have LED his wing to vote for conviction. I think that I said this last week. McConnell is excellent at counting votes. He didn't have them. The next best thing for him to do in opposing Trump was to vote for acquittal, remain the majority leader, and to speak out clearly against Trump and his actions. He is now in a position to protect some of the senators against Trump primaries.
 
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Even if that is the case, I think he'd have been better off to claim the procedural victory and let it go at that.

He knows how history is going to judge the 43 senators who voted to acquit Trump and he wanted to distance himself from that. Unfortunately for McConnell, the sands of time will erode the memory of his speech. His vote however will be remembered forever.
 
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He knows how history is going to judge the 43 senators who voted to acquit Trump and he wanted to distance himself from that. Unfortunately for McConnell, the sands of time will erode the memory of his speech. His vote however will be remembered forever.

I disagree. McConnell will be remembered for giving the country a generation of conservative judges and for lowering corporate taxes.

With regard to his actions against ex-president Trump, the statement accepting the election, the vote and the speech are just the beginning of an extended fight against the Trump-led controlling wing of the Republican Party and the various groups that support that wing.
 
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He knows how history is going to judge the 43 senators who voted to acquit Trump and he wanted to distance himself from that. Unfortunately for McConnell, the sands of time will erode the memory of his speech. His vote however will be remembered forever.

We are already diverting the country and history. The Republican members that will be remembered in history are those who supported voiding the election.
 
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