If Donald Trump didn’t already hate Mitch McConnell before, I can all but guarantee you, down to my last dollar, that he certainly will after he catches wind of this news.
As we’re all painfully aware, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell — who was recently demoted to Senate Minority Leader — ultimately voted in favor of Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate during both of the now-former president’s impeachment trials. However, according to a bombshell new tell-all book, the GOP congressman actually came a whole hell of a lot closer to throwing Donald Trump under the bus and voting him out of the White House than we previously knew or realized.
This morning, reporters made an appearance on CNN, where they discussed their new book, Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump. While the Trump tell-alls are certainly plentiful these days, this particular new opus focuses specifically on Senator Mitch McConnell’s inner turmoil and apparent back and forth over whether or not Trump should pay for his crimes through a conviction and ultimately be barred from the White House or ever holding office again.
Bade explained in the new interview, “There was a narrative that the republicans would never convict Trump… but our reporting is that [McConnell] was very close after January 6th. He was furious with Trump, came back to his office and saw the damage to the Capitol, and told his aides that ‘We all knew Trump was crazy, I’m never going to speak to him again.'”
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In the end, though, Bade confirmed that McConnell’s plans to force Donald Trump out of the US political scene were ultimately thwarted after he found himself “sandbagged by his own members.”
“He thought there would be enough Republicans to convict trump but then they coalesced about this argument that you can’t impeach a former president,” Bade went on to note. “And McConnell debated with his counsel, ‘Why would framers put that in the constitution if they want to limit it to an office holder?’ And then, ultimately, he was forced into taking a position.”
All said and done, a total of 57 US senators voted in favor of convicting Donald Trump on his crimes during his second impeachment trial, over his role in the deadly January 6th Capitol insurrection. Of those 57 senators, only seven of them were Republicans.
Watch the interview here:
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