Good Read On the Mitch - Trump Feud
I'm always cautious with Michael Snyder, but this is an interesting read on an important topic. My working assumption is that, whatever personal animus and political convictions Mitch may have brought to his feud with Trump, there were moneyed interests behind him pushing him. See what you think. One thing is for sure, by now Trump knows who his enemies are. This is a small part of a considerably longer article, so check it out:
Why Mitch McConnell Backed Away From Trying To Convict Trump
Mitch McConnell really wanted to convict Donald Trump and ban him from ever running for office again, but he was forced to back off. In fact, he just voted for a motion that declared that convicting Trump at this point would be unconstitutional . That represents a stunning reversal by McConnell, because earlier this month he was telling other Republicans that he wanted Trump gone. Putting the pieces together, it appears that McConnell really did try to get to 67 votes so that Trump would be convicted, but political reality forced him to back down in a major way. Now a weakened McConnell will try to move forward as the minority leader in the Senate, and the future of his political career is very much in doubt.
Once the riot at the U.S. Capitol happened on January 6th, McConnell decided that he was done with Trump and never wanted to speak to him again …
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he never wants to speak to President Donald Trump again following a violent insurrection at the US Capitol on Wednesday, The Washington Post reported.
But of course at that point they had already not spoken for quite some time.
According to McConnell, the last time the two spoke was all the way back on December 15th …
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he hasn’t spoken to former President Trump since the middle of December, confirming news reports that the Senate GOP leader has cut off personal contact with the former president.
“The last time I spoke with him was the day after I declared that Biden had obviously won the election after the Electoral College [voted on] Dec. 14. It would have been Dec. 15,” McConnell told reporters.
Not content to keep his feud with Trump private, McConnell took it to the floor of the U.S. [Senate].
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So why did Mitch McConnell change his mind so dramatically?
There are three main reasons.
First of all, it became clear that there wouldn’t be a way to get to 67 votes. ...
Secondly, Trump was threatening to start his own political party if he was convicted.
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Thirdly, other Republicans in the Senate were threatening to boot McConnell from his position as minority leader if he voted to convict Trump …
“No, no, no,” Sen. Ron Johnson , a Wisconsin Republican and Trump ally, told CNN when asked if he could support McConnell if he voted to convict Trump, calling such a vote a “dangerous precedent” and adding: “I don’t even think we should be having a trial.”
“If you’re wanting to erase Donald Trump from the party, you’re going to get erased,” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said on Fox News Wednesday. “This idea of moving forward without Donald Trump in the Republican Party is a disaster for the Republican Party.”
McConnell is a political survivor, and he could see the writing on the wall.
So he backed off.
However, the last thing the country needs at this juncture is a leaderless GOP in Washington. The country and the GOP very much need strong leadership. McConnell--incredibly for one with his political experience--fundamentally miscalculated his role. Notice who the two Republican senators who spoke for attribution were--Johnson and Graham have been close to McConnell and have a status as elders in the Senate. Whether their support of Trump was genuine or not, their words demonstrate that they realize the transformation of the party that Trump has wrought--and that McConnell's actions were leading the GOP over a political cliff. These are things that someone with McConnell's experience should have realized on his own. That he failed to do so--and this egregious lapse in judgment happened in public--is what is behind the unprecedented public pushback McConnell received. He broke a trust he's likely going to be unable to ever regain.
But if he could figure out a way to get rid of Trump without any consequences, he would pull the trigger in a nanosecond.
Unfortunately for McConnell, now that everyone knows what he tried to do, he has been greatly weakened politically.
He may survive for a while, but the days remaining in his political career are definitely numbered.
If the Republicans are not able to regain control of the Senate in 2022, I have a feeling that Senate Republicans may decide that it is time for a new standard bearer.
Of course a lot could still happen between now and then, and my regular readers already know that I am not optimistic about America’s future at all .
The rot and decay in Washington is simply a reflection of the rot and decay that is growing throughout our society as a whole.
Our country is literally falling apart all around us, and decades of incredibly foolish decisions by our leaders are now catching up with us in a major way.