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Mitch McConnell Has a Lot of Nerve.
He voted to acquit Donald Trump, and then conceded the former President had done everything he had been accused of doing.
In a move that virtually everyone saw coming, the Senate voted to acquit former President Donald Trump on the charge of incitement of an insurrection following the January 6th riots during which his supporters raided the Capitol on his command. While a solid majority of the Senate voted in favor of conviction, the number fell predictably short of of the 2/3rd majority needed in order to convict. It’s become almost boring to discuss the true intentions and motives of the Republican senators who refused to hold Donald Trump accountable for putting their own lives in jeopardy, but one of the few exceptions is Mitch McConnell, who — after voting to acquit Trump — took to the Senate floor to essentially concede that he had done everything he had been accused of doing.
At some point, you have to sort of appreciate the nerve.
After the vote took place, Mitch McConnell used his time on the floor of the Senate to give a speech where at least at the beginning, he almost sounded as though he was one of the impeachment managers. He accused the former President of filling the heads of his supporters with wild falsehoods, called his actions…
