on their own for his sake

” The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instruction 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.

The issue is not only the president’s intemperate language on January 6 … It was also the entire manufactured atmosphere of looming catastrophe, the increasingly wild myths about a reverse landslide election that was somehow being stolen by some secret coup by our now-president. “

Mitch McConnell

 “The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people.”

Mitchy MConnell

 “There is no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” he said, and added that Mr. Trump watched the events unfold on television. “A mob was assaulting the Capitol in his name,” he said. “These criminals were carrying his banners, hanging his flags and screaming their loyalty to him.”

Mitch McConnell

“They did this because they’d been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on earth, because he was angry he lost an election.”

Mitch McConnel

“If President Trump were still in office, I would have carefully considered whether the House managers proved their specific charge.”

Mitch McConnell (after having prevented the Senate from holding the impeachment trial before Trump left office, refusing to agree to an emergency session of the Senate to conduct the trial, claiming there was not enough time to conduct it fairly before President Biden took office.)

Prior to the trial and before hearing any evidence, McConnell told Senate Republicans in an email that he will vote to acquit Trump .

“The Constitution makes perfectly clear that Presidential criminal misconduct while in office can be prosecuted after the President has left office, which in my view alleviates the otherwise troubling ‘January exception’ argument raised by the House.

“Given these conclusions, I will vote to acquit.”

And he did.

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