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2025-02-04 Home Front: Politix
McConnell Still ‘Very Upset' with Trump ‐ ‘We Haven't Spoken for Quite a While'
[Breitbart] During Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s "60 Minutes," Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he was still at odds with President Donald Trump despite his election victory last November.

The Kentucky Republican said he still harbored ill-will for what he had alleged was Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
The honourable senator from the great state of Kentucky harbours ill will from long before January 6. He hobbled President Trump’s efforts for pretty much everything except judge approvals during the entire four years of his first term, preventing work toward reducing spending among other things.
Partial transcript as follows:

STAHL: How would you describe your relationship with President Trump?

MCCONNELL: Well, we haven’t spoken for quite a while. I was very upset about what happened January 6.

STAHL: You had to be evacuated from the Senate along with other leaders. Your staff was in your office. The rioters were banging on your door. Someone with a flagpole broke a window into your office.

MCCONNELL: Yeah. Well, my staff in the Capitol was putting furniture up against the doors.

STAHL: To prevent them from coming—

MCCONNELL: To prevent the rioters from outside from breaking the doors and getting at them. And what was it about? To try to prevent the orderly transfer of government, which had never happened in our country.

STAHL: Your staff, after the crisis was over, you went and spoke with them. You— it was a highly emotional situation. You remember?

MCCONNELL: Oh, I remember well.

STAHL: Do you remember what you told them?

MCCONNELL: That— Yeah, I remember what I told them.

MCCONNELL (OFF-CAMERA): President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day.

MCCONNELL: That’s the way I still feel about it.

STAHL: What are your views on President Trump and his supporters trying to change what happened on January 6? They’re calling it a "day of love." They called the rioters "martyrs."

MCCONNELL: Yeah. No, it— it was an insurrection.

STAHL: What about the pardons for the people who stormed the Capitol that day?

MCCONNELL: I— I think pardoning the people who’ve been convicted is a mistake.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-04 01:13|| || Front Page|| [11152 views ]  Top

#1 His problem with Trump likely has nothing to do with January 6, 2021.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-04 01:16||   2025-02-04 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Mitch, get over yourself. You're being allowed to retire in peace. Take your boodle and go.
Posted by ed in texas 2025-02-04 09:31||   2025-02-04 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks for the SCOTUS judges, now GTFO Yertle
Posted by Frank G 2025-02-04 09:35||   2025-02-04 09:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, we haven’t spoken for quite a while.

...he said after freezing in place and carried out by aides.
Posted by Warthog 2025-02-04 09:41||   2025-02-04 09:41|| Front Page Top

#5 I think pardoning the people who’ve been convicted is a mistake.

Which is the very definition of pardon criteria BTW.
Posted by Warthog 2025-02-04 09:43||   2025-02-04 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Keep your trap shut and head into retirement quietly. Otherwise you will find yourself under investigation too. Lord knows you have earned an investigation.
Posted by DarthVader 2025-02-04 09:50||   2025-02-04 09:50|| Front Page Top

#7 The worst part is that Mitch knows better. He knows what actually happened. Let that sink in.
Posted by Angstrom 2025-02-04 11:52||   2025-02-04 11:52|| Front Page Top

#8 When he visits the web page about dementia, he is always surprised the links have been clicked.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-04 12:17||   2025-02-04 12:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Mitch looks like he is subject to an extended taxidermy process.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-04 14:18||   2025-02-04 14:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Mitch has watched '50 First Dates' fifty-one times.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-04 21:02||   2025-02-04 21:02|| Front Page Top

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