Last week, the HIGHEST RANKING REPUBLICAN in the USA, said this:
“…There’s no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day [January 6, 2021]. No question about it.”
Senator Mitch McConnell, February 2021
***this is a discussion/ partial transcript of Senator Mitch McConnell’s remarks about of Trump’s dereliction of presidential duty & misconduct. The insurrection, which flowed from Trump’s conduct (says McConnell)- was directly and absolutely the attributible Donald Trump.
Senator Mitch McConnell:
“…January 6th was a disgrace. American citizens attacked their own government. They rioted & engaged in terrorism. They beat and bloodied our police. They tried to hunt down the Speaker of the House and the Vice-President to hang them. They built a gallows and talked about murdering [Trumps own] vice president.
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.
Trump’s actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty. There’s no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. No question about it.
Mitch McConnell: (01:46)
The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president TRUMP…and 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 in temperate language on January 6th. It is not just his endorsement of remarks in which an associate urged quote “Trial by combat”. It was also the entire manufactured atmosphere of looming catastrophe. The increasingly wild myths about a reverse landslide election that was somehow being stolen. Some secret coup by our now president.
This was an intensifying crescendo of conspiracy theories orchestrated by an outgoing president who seemed determined to either overturn the voter’s decision or else torch our institutions on the way out. The unconscionable behavior did not end when the violence actually began.
It was obvious that only President Trump could end this. He was the only one who could. Former aides publicly begged him to do so. Loyal allies frantically called the administration. The president did not act.
No, instead, according to public reports, Trump watched television happily as the [murderous, bloody, deadly destruction and …] chaos unfolded.
Even after it was clear to any reasonable observer that Vice President Pence was in serious danger. Even as the mob carrying Trump banners was beating cops and breaching perimeters their […president was delighted, taking no action to stop it, and idiotically …]sent a further tweet, attacking his own vice president.
Didn’t get away with anything, yet. We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation and former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one….”
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