It’s no secret at this point that, despite the KY senator and former Senator Majority Leader doing so much of the ex-president’s bidding in Congress during his presidential term, now Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and now ex-President Donald Trump are no longer on good terms.
However, in the almost year and a half that Trump has been out of office and Mitch and his party got demoted in the Senate, more and more information has slowly but surely leaked out, shedding a light on the extent of their beef.
According to a recent report from the New York Times, at the time of the infamous, deadly Capitol insurrection, Mitch McConnell privately supported the Democrats’ efforts to impeach then-President Trump (for the second time) for his major role in inciting the violent attack against the Capitol building and America’s very democracy on that fateful day — in spite of the fact that he voted in favor of Trump’s acquittal in the Senate.
The Times’ Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin report that Senator McConnell said, “The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a bitch for us,” in regard to the Democrats’ 2021 House impeachment proceedings.
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Burns and Martin’s reporting hails from their upcoming book, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future, which is constructed on literally hundreds of different interviews with various lawmakers and federal officials as well as documents from the 2020 election all the way through to the January 6th attack.
As we already know, McConnell was left infuriated by the Capitol attack perpetrated by Trump’s rabid supporters, ultimately thundering from the Senate floor in the early hours of January 7th, as workers still cleaned up the rubble and damage around him, “I want to say to the American people the United States Senate will not be intimidated. We will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs, or threats. We will not bow to lawlessness or intimidation.”
Even Mitch’s wife, former Trump-era Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, resigned from her federal position on the day after the attack, calling the insurrection a “traumatic and entirely avoidable event.”
Burns and Martin go on to reveal that, over a meal of Chik-Fil-A in Kentucky, McConnell told two of his long-time aides, “If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is.”
But at the end of the “day,” McConnell and almost all of his fellow Republicans ultimately chose to stand behind Donald Trump, despite all that he’d done.
However, it seems McConnell still itches to see the former president held accountable, as their relationship finally fully shattered following the election, with the KY senator saying that the criminal justice system would ultimately decide Trump’s final fate.
“President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office, as an ordinary citizen, unless the statute of limitations has run, still liable for everything he did while in office, didn’t get away with anything yet – yet,” he said in February of 2021, just shortly after President Biden’s inauguration.
If only you’d had the spine to make that happen yourself, Mitch.
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