scorpio516 wrote:
Kay Serrar wrote:
This is also likely why McConnell recently said he would support Trump if he were the nominee in 2024. McConnell would rather hold his nose and support Trump than see Biden/Harris stay in the White House.
That's the biggest non-story of this whole thing. Of course the Senate party leader is going to back the party's selected candidate for the job! George Mitchell was never going to say Clinton was a bad choice. Howard Baker didn't say Reagan was a bad choice - Baker even ran against Reagan.
We should probably never be surprised at how low Mitch McConnell will stoop, but it's not really a non-story in the context of McConnell's speech in the Senate after the impeachment vote. In recent history, to my knowledge no-one has ever said such scathing things about a person in office and then a few days later said they would again support their candidacy.
Here are some quotes:
"Former President Trump's actions preceding the riot were
a disgraceful dereliction of duty."
"There is no question that
President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day.
The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president.
And their having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth."
"many politicians sometimes make overheated comments or use metaphors that unhinged listeners might take literally.
This was different.
This was an intensifying crescendo of conspiracy theories,
orchestrated by an outgoing president who seemed determined to either overturn the voters' decision or else torch our institutions on the way out."
"It was obvious that only President Trump could end this.
Former aides publicly begged him to do so. Loyal allies frantically called the administration.
But the president did not act swiftly.
He did not do his job. He didn't take steps so federal law could be faithfully executed, and order restored."
"
Even after it was clear to any reasonable observer
that Vice President Pence was in danger,
even as the mob carrying Trump banners
was beating cops and breaching perimeters,
the president sent a further tweet attacking his vice president.
Predictably and foreseeably under the circumstances, members of the mob seemed to interpret this as further inspiration to lawlessness and violence."
"And even then,
with police officers bleeding and broken glass covering Capitol floors,
he kept repeating election lies and
praising the criminals."
