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BumRushDaShow

(142,278 posts) Mon Oct 21, 2024, 04:09 AM Oct 21

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

Source: Axios

11 hours ago

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.

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.

[liConviction 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.

Zoom in: "I'm not at all conflicted about whether what the president did is an impeachable offense. I think it is," McConnell said in the oral history interview, provided to Tackett.

Urging an insurrection and people attacking the Capitol "is about as close to an impeachable offense as you can imagine," McConnell added.

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McConnell backed Jack Smith, wanted Trump to "pay" for Jan. 6 (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 21 OP

I.Don't.Care. Boomerproud Oct 21 #1

Fuck you Mitch. Botany Oct 21 #2

Exactly Ray Bruns Oct 21 #6

He should have said... Mike Nelson Oct 21 #3

Turtle is more dangerous than 45 BumRushDaShow Oct 21 #4

And yet this spineless turtle retracted his small head into its shell & said he'd vote for the Con onetexan Oct 21 #5

Just another piece of shit who failed to honor his oath. polichick Oct 21 #7

The Jerk is trying to shore up his broken legacy. It's not gonna work. Because of Mitch..... Clouds Passing Oct 21 #8

"The Jerk is trying to shore up his broken legacy." BumRushDaShow Oct 21 #9

McCONnel has done an incredible amount of damage to the rule of law. Clouds Passing Oct 21 #10

+infinity BumRushDaShow Oct 21 #11

Fuck YOU Mc Turtle AKwannabe Oct 21 #12

Chickenshit coward. Worm. mahina Oct 21 #13

TOO LATE for you Moscow Mitch FakeNoose Oct 21 #14

hey Mitch, Conjuay Oct 21 #15

Boomerproud

(8,407 posts)

1. I.Don't.Care.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 04:13 AM

Oct 21

Botany

(72,477 posts)

2. Fuck you Mitch.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 04:30 AM

Oct 21

Then why didn’t you vote to impeach him for J-6th?

McConnell (R-KY), Not Guilty

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00059.htm

Mitch is just now trying to cover his ass because Jack Smith has the goods on Trump
for January 6th. Btw what about Chuck Grassley’s Vice President Pence won’t be in
the Senate on J-6th?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/jazoed/senator_mitch_mcconnell_at_sons_of_confederate/#lightbox

Ray Bruns

(4,599 posts)

6. Exactly

Reply to Botany (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 05:43 AM

Oct 21

Mike Nelson

(10,285 posts)

3. He should have said...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 04:55 AM

Oct 21

... all this publicly. He should have taken the Liz Cheney route. He cowardly backtracked. Why? My guess is that he agrees with Trump... he would like that kind of government. He would like a Supreme Court with nine Alitos. He would like a Republican dictator. Mitch is worse than Donald... he tries to masquerade as a mainstream Republican. His actions reveal his real positions.

BumRushDaShow

(142,278 posts)

4. Turtle is more dangerous than 45

Reply to Mike Nelson (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 05:04 AM

Oct 21

because he is "lucid", knows all the mechanisms behind the institutions of government, and how to pragmatically execute a coup.

onetexan

(13,896 posts)

5. And yet this spineless turtle retracted his small head into its shell & said he'd vote for the Con

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 05:27 AM

Oct 21

polichick

(37,621 posts)

7. Just another piece of shit who failed to honor his oath.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 05:43 AM

Oct 21

Clouds Passing

(2,268 posts)

8. The Jerk is trying to shore up his broken legacy. It's not gonna work. Because of Mitch.....

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 08:56 AM

Oct 21

Women are now slaves!

BumRushDaShow

(142,278 posts)

9. "The Jerk is trying to shore up his broken legacy."

Reply to Clouds Passing (Reply #8)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 09:22 AM

Oct 21

His legacy wasn't "broken". His legacy is INTACT and was well-planned and executed.

But as a result, it is AMERICA'S legacy that is now broken and HE was the architect.

His court-packing has become an absolute nightmare, to the point where even, for some reason, DUers think it is the Biden administration's fault that 45's cases aren't moving, rather than putting the blame SQUARELY on Turtle's hand-selected JUDICIARY.

Clouds Passing

(2,268 posts)

10. McCONnel has done an incredible amount of damage to the rule of law.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #9)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 09:38 AM

Oct 21

He has done nothing but create one poison pill after another. He made an artform out of obstructionism.

He will not go down in the history books well.

BumRushDaShow

(142,278 posts)

11. +infinity

Reply to Clouds Passing (Reply #10)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 09:49 AM

Oct 21

AKwannabe

(6,339 posts)

12. Fuck YOU Mc Turtle

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 10:41 AM

Oct 21

Should have IMPEACHED his fat ass!
That was the “price” he should have IMMEDIATELY PAID! You have that on your hands. Fuck off!

mahina

(18,938 posts)

13. Chickenshit coward. Worm.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 01:06 PM

Oct 21

Apology to worms.

This just shows he knew what he did was wrong.

May this kind of ethos vanish with him.

FakeNoose

(35,666 posts)

14. TOO LATE for you Moscow Mitch

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 03:04 PM

Oct 21

Why didn't you vote to convict Chump when you had the chance? Both times?
It really doesn't matter what you say now. You've already sold out your country.

Conjuay

(2,105 posts)

15. hey Mitch,

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 03:21 PM

Oct 21

your results are back from Ancestry.Com

You’re 49% Turtle and 60% WEASEL.
They can’t explain the discrepancy, but they’ve run the test three times, and it yielded the exact same results.

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