Monday, October 21, 2024

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

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 | 4 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

Yeah, no. Turtle is a ------- lying cowardly bitch.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-10-21 07:44 PM

@#2 ... Yeah, no. Turtle is a ------- 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 ...




#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-21 08:25 PM

What McConnell wants someone else to do the work he was too afraid of doing himself.

He had the chance to hold dotard accountable for his crimes that he committed while president in his vain attempts to overturn a free and fair election not only once, but a multitude of times and ultimately resulting in the deaths of civilians and police officers on 1/6.

Instead he once again used semantics to contort his opportunity to do his damn job into a get out of jail free card for P01135809 because he was afraid of what the magats would do to him and his family.

What a sad little man he ended up being will be his legacy.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-22 11:57 AM

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