![]() ![]() And, over the past two years, he has periodically displayed selective amnesia about Trump's misdeeds.īut earlier this month, when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy irresponsibly handed over 40,000 hours of unedited security tapes from Jan. In a Senate floor speech in mid-January 2021, McConnell declared that the "mob" was "provoked by the president and other powerful people." The Senate Republican leader's words were so forceful that there was speculation McConnell might even vote "guilty" in Trump's impeachment trial. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob was merely high-spirited patriots and tourists visiting their elected representatives. McConnell has, at times, been a fierce opponent of the Trumpian view that the Jan. would likely have had been able to orchestrate a far less politically inflammatory anti-abortion decision.īut McConnell's absence from Capitol Hill serves as a reminder that this purported soulless cynic does firmly hold three important beliefs that put him at odds with former President Donald Trump and the QAnon-tinged incendiaries who shape the House Republican caucus. Garland to be confirmed in 2016 - rather than thuggishly preventing the Barack Obama nominee from even getting a hearing - Chief Justice John G. Had McConnell permitted then-Judge Merrick B. Wade, the landmark decision that had protected abortion rights. McConnell probably would be Senate majority leader right now if the Supreme Court last year had not overturned Roe v. The Citizens United Supreme Court decision and the deregulation of political money that McConnell has long championed did not create an enduring GOP majority, since Democrats proved equally adept at courting hedge fund billionaires. A case can be made that McConnell is, at best, a minor-league Machiavelli.
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