McConnell backed SC Smith, wanted Trump to "pay" for Jan. 6

Monday, October 21, 2024

In a biography set to publish a week before the election, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell backed special counsel Jack Smith and said he hopes former President Trump will "pay a price" for his role in Jan. 6th.

Posted by LampLighter at 12:00 PM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink

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... Why it matters: McConnell has long been a Trump critic, but a new book throws his weight behind some of the most serious federal charges against Trump.

- - - "If he hasn't committed indictable offenses, I don't know what one is," the longest-serving Republican leader told journalist Michael Tackett in an interview for "The Price of Power," weeks after Smith brought the charges against Trump in August 2023.

- - - "From the start, McConnell thought the charges brought by federal prosecutors against Trump had merit," Tackett writes.

- - - McConnell told him "there's no doubt who inspired it, and I just hope that he'll have to pay a price for it," referencing Jan. 6.

Between the lines: Tackett's book reveals just how seriously McConnell considered voting to convict Trump of related impeachment charges in 2021.

- - - Conviction could have led to the Senate blocking Trump from running for office again.

- - - McConnell explicitly considered the idea, according to one of his oral history interviews done a week after the insurrection. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-21 12:03 PM

@#2 ... Yeah, no. Turtle is a fucking lying cowardly bitch. ...

Apparently, the main goal of his rule as Senate Majority Leader was to be the longest-serving person in a leadership position. That, apparently, brought him to tears.

Mitch's private tears and sweet college revenge
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... Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is known for his stoic public face. But in private, he cried tears of joy when he broke a record he long chased: Longest-serving Senate party leader.

Why it matters: McConnell's teary moment is one of several revealing scenes unearthed by Michael Tackett in his new McConnell biography. "The Price of Power," out later this month ...