Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed on Saturday that he will vote to acquit Donald Trump in his impeachment trial.
According to reports, McConnell told GOP colleagues in a letter that he would vote to acquit Donald Trump.
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He said “I have been asked directly by a number of you how I intend to vote, so I thought it right to make that known prior to the vote. While a close call, I am persuaded that impeachments are a tool primary of removal and we therefore lack jurisdiction.”
Breitbart reports: McConnell refused to reveal whether he intended to convict or acquit Trump in the lead up to the impeachment trial, telling reporters that he intended to hear both sides of the arguments.
“I think that’s what we ought to do. That’s what I said before it started. That’s still my view,” McConnell said at the time.
The minority leader previously told colleagues that their vote would ultimately be one of “conscience” and made waves after a January 19 floor speech where he said that the January 6 mob was “fed lies” and “provoked by the president and other powerful people.”
“And they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like,” he said.
Democrats and members of the establishment media had hoped that McConnell would steer Republicans to convict the former president, but a conviction widely remains unlikely given that 44 GOP senators, including McConnell, questioned the constitutionality of proceeding with the trial this week.
The news also follows a Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy survey taken this month, which showed 53 percent of Kentuckians disapproving of McConnell’s job performance and 41 percent approving.
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Of course he will he is trying to cover his A–, after he threw him under the bus.
Mitch McConnell is a Establishment POS only cares about Washington DC Not Flyover Country. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6ad733f6155e10fc210e5f5731d436aa4bea79b18218a2aa9251d745270065be.jpg
Hey Mitch, your mask must cover the entire turkey neck to be effective against the vid bro.
Hes an evangelical or something isnt he P3nce is rhe born again type Anyway any educated person knows ” no man can serve two masters ” and the Pipe demands loyalty to the Doctrine ,bot to the will of the people It IS that simple You cant have your cake and eat it too You cant be democratic and catholic Not really
You either do believe the Pope speaks for God or you dont. If you do then you wouldnt argue or disagree or disobey Would you ? And if you dont disobey then you shouldnt enter politics in any democracy because you have to be obedient to the Vatican ,a foreign government .And if you disobey you shouldnt be in the church.