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WASHINGTON, D.C., February 16, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Donald Trump is gone (for now), and his second impeachment ended in failure. But before we can move on, there needs to be a reckoning for what this debacle revealed about the Republicans still in office – starting with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
From the start, McConnell has tried to split the difference between the conservative base and the GOP swamp. He was not among the seven Republicans who joined Democrats in voting for conviction, but made clear in a floor speech that he voted to acquit not because he was standing up to the incitement lie, but simply because former presidents are “constitutionally not eligible for conviction.”
The January 6 rioters stormed the Capitol, McConnell claimed, “because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth — because he was angry he’d lost an election (…) 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
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