Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former President Donald Trump did not part ways on good terms.
According to the upcoming book “Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump,” written by Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian and published by William Morrow, McConnell and his aides were walking through the Capitol some time after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection when McConnell told his aides that he was done with Trump.
Trump was later impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for “incitement of insurrection.” It was the second time Trump had been impeached by the House; he was acquitted both times by the Senate. Trump is the only president in U.S. history to have been impeached twice.
Excerpts from the book published by the Washington Post indicate that in 2021, McConnell seriously considered voting to convict Trump for his role in the Capitol insurrection, but ultimately decided to vote to acquit — before excoriating the former president as “practically and morally responsible” for the attack. The account of McConnell’s remarks is based on interviews with people familiar with his thinking who were said to have spoken on the condition of anonymity for the book.
On several occasions leading up to the vote, McConnell reportedly spoke with Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming about how to loosen Trump’s grip on their shared Republican Party in the aftermath of his 2020 election loss and subsequent impeachment. The book reports that Cheney implored McConnell to speak out forcefully against Trump and to vote to convict him in the Senate.
But McConnell had his own idea.
“We don’t disagree on the substance; we just disagree on the tactics,” McConnell told Cheney, according to the book. “Let’s just ignore him.”
McConnell’s office did not respond to MarketWatch’s request for comment.
In the 20 months since Trump left office, the former president has not been shy about attacking McConnell. Trump called McConnell a “broken down hack politician” in August, and in February had said that “if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again.”
In April, McConnell said Trump “totally discredited himself” during the Jan. 6 attack, yet he indicated he would still support Trump if he was the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. “The nominee of the party? Absolutely!” McConnell said.
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It is time for Republicans to wake up and send McConnell back to West Virginia and maybe he could get a job in a coal mine, oh I forget he and his buddy Biden are shutting them down. He needs to be gone, YESTERDAY!. He is a Rino and can’t be trusted. So, Republicans, show some courage and tell McConnell he is finished. As my members of congress, Mike Crapo, Jim Risch and Russ Fulcher I implore you, stand up to McConnell and let him know there is no place in the Republican party for Rino’s.
McConnell is from kentucky
EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!
This proves how PH ‘ k ing STUPID the GOP are!
Jesus: “Amen”
You’re a fool WOKE-FOLK, that’s why these (D)emons are able to destroy this country! Brainless lemmings such as yourself will get the misery, squalor and servitude that you deserve Lefty! My Lord, can you be any more stupid?
Wow, searing comment about McConnell and you do not even know where he is from!!! Not only does McConnell speak like a mush mouth, he has no kahunas! He should have listened to Chaney. He should have spoken out loudly about the disaster and aging business hack Trump. He should have denounced Trump at every turn and should have had the power of conviction to say heck no I do not support Trump if he is our nominee. Lets also not forget how Trump insulted his wife. Trump has to go! Please MAGA people, get your heads out of Trump’s buttocks and bring a moderate conservative with good policies to the 2024 election.
GOP Loser mikey baby, well….you are so PH ‘ CKING stupid!
I bet decades ago you complained when they started to take lead out of gasoline.
You probably said: “How will anyone’s car run? This will be the END of Ford, GM and Chrysler!”
Mikey, you were a TIHS Head then. Just as you are a TNUC Face now!.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAH
You want to sound funny and smart but you come across as petty and vindictive, for no reason important to you at all. I’m not trying to be funny or smart but, for some reason, your comment bothered me in the sense that you denigrate someone you don’t even know. You just do it because you can, that has become what is wrong with a certain part of America. Your Stage 5 TDS has clouded your good judgment and you are now just a hater.
I broke mt own rule by even posting this, my bad.
McConnell is from Kentucky not W. Virginia. This Rino needs to pack his Bags and join his Brothers in the PARASITE party of the Democratic Socialist/Communist Party where he Enjoying their Company than the GOP. McConnell really enjoys Kissing Schmucks BUTT !
Mitch needs to leave congress now before Trump gets reelected because he will do everything he can to go against Trump when he is reelected. He’s not the right man for the job anymore. He needs to go, NOW. W. Virginians need to vote him out and be done with him. He will only cause trouble for our country if you don’t.
GOP Loser PH ‘ ck Head magoo, please answer me:
“How are the people of West Virginia going to vote Mitch out of the US Senate? This proves the GOP will lie and cheat in ANY and ALL elections.
Everyone, mitch the TNUC Face is proof that Southern brothers and sisters should NOT marry one another. But alas, brothers and sisters in the South continue to bang each other.
Xbiden LOST ! The GOP doesn’t do what the DemoRats do in Every Election Cycle. DemoRats , Con , Steal , Cheat and Berbi for VOTES and they also Rig VOTING MACHINES in their FAVOR. And U must be One of them that HELP to work their Dirty Deeds.
Rhino, McConnel and McCarthy are the downfall of the repuke party, get rid of them, or lose every election from now on,and lose the Trump base. I and many others, are fed up with these dinosaurs that are destrying americans way of life.Heed this warning, or u will pay dearly, for it in the mid=terms.
Wow, “Bitch McGobbler” the turkey-necked RINO traitor that married a wealthy, half his age Chinese agent needs to shut the hell up! This little twit should have been made to leave his position long, long ago but the “Re-PUNK-licans” are just that! Hit the road, you treacherous POS!