(GNB Desk): Minutes after voting to acquit Donald Trump, Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday addressed from the Senate floor that the former president is “practically and morally responsible” for provoking the deadly insurrection that took place at the US Capitol on January 6.
After calling former Pres. Trump responsible for Capitol riot, Mitch McConnell said he is “constitutionally not eligible for conviction.” “If Pres. Trump were still in office, I would have carefully considered whether the House managers proved their specific charge.”Trump was acquitted by the Senate on Saturday afternoon.
Leader Mitch McConnell said- “January 6th was a disgrace. American citizens attacked their own government. They used terrorism to try to stop a specific piece of democratic business they did not like”.
“Fellow Americans beat and bloodied our own police. They stormed the Senate floor. They tried to hunt down the Speaker of the House. They built a gallows and chanted about murdering the vice president, they did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth – because he was angry he’d lost an election. Former President Trump’s actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty. The House accused the former president of, quote, ‘incitement.’ That is a specific term from the criminal law”, McConnell said.
“Let me put that to the side for one moment and reiterate something I said weeks ago: There is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day. The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions 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”, MeConnell added.
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