McConnell, GOP Eager To Let Trump Off The Hook For Seditious Role In Deadly Capitol Raid

Rachel Maddow outlines how Mitch McConnell first stalled the Senate to keep it from dealing with the article of impeachment against Donald Trump while Trump was still in office, and then voted with most Senate Republicans to say that Trump shouldn't be impeached because he's already out of office. Aired on 01/27/2021.
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McConnell, GOP Eager To Let Trump Off The Hook For Seditious Role In Deadly Capitol Raid

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  1. To call McConnell a snake would be a disservice to snakes. Nothing so evil as McConnell exists in the animal kingdom.

    1. @Mary Metto Yepp, and you are one of the folks leading the institution. Do you really think God cares about politics? Sort of an insult to God to imply it I think. You are from the deep South aren’t you? Of course you are!

    2. LMAO!!!!!! U took the words right out of my mouth! This is the reason why he get’s chased out of restaurants and his home gets vandalized.

  2. They are always sorry. They need to explain how the panic buttons for Democrat members of Congress were torn out before the assault on the Capitol by Trump’s deranged supporters…

    1. That’s how it is in all of politics it seems. Obama with the Dallas shooting in β€˜16. Bernie Sanders with the GOP shootings in β€˜17. I doubt there was any nefarious plan on the part of politicians. It’s just a small minority of crazy people in all parties/ideologies

  3. Their fear of having a lifelong target on their back is overshadowed by their towering political greed to stay important and powerful. HISTORY WILL REMEMBER.

    1. @Swift Gigz history is written by winners. those who did not win were marked if they went to war and forgotten if they became slaves

    2. Those who fail to learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them. These people full of hatred for this country who belong to chumps cult MUST be held to account! They must! Otherwise this behaviour will only become progressively worse! Huge fines and jail sentences for all of them…. Had it been you or I, we would be serving 20 years.

    3. @Joshua Derstine Those riots were started by *The Boogaloo Boys* posing as BLM protesters. *THEY* started the fires, *THEY* encouraged violence, because *THEY* wanted to start a race war. I’d also like to point out that it was the *POLICE* who escalated the violence, *THEY* are still doing it in Tacoma.

  4. Well in this case, every president can do exactly what Trump did and even worse and get away with it and America will be a country without law as third world countries.

    1. ​@randolph garrison Non-partisan, unaffiliated, iconoclastic, neither advocating nor antagonizing, I can never be defined (as pro or anti any thing). The signs to which you allude, like all signs, are illusory in nature. Beware!

    2. So do you think this was Mitch’s plan all along to let Trump off the hook. It makes you wonder what HE’S getting out of it. Doesn’t it?

    3. @Marian Lincoln Full disclosure: I do not trust Mitch McConnell. I find him duplicitous, machiavellian, and hypocritical. I cannot claim to understand his motives. I only know that I do not trust them. To join in a strained metaphor: Lucy has snatched the football away once too many times.

    1. @Drake Fire Social security, public systems etc aren’t socialism. Those are basic Civic values basically started in Romes Republic public bath houses, public libraries, public festivals, gladatorium, areana and hippodrome for the public entertainment, public roads etc way before socialism was ever launched. Augustus gave Roman citizens free grain and was apart of the Roman principate and alot of modern Republican values came from Civic Republic Rome. Modern Dems can’t take claim of Civic policies when they have created wars on their hunt for social justice reforms all over the globe..That’s not fair and it’s disingenuous..
      Republicans have gave more than family seperating dems ever have by freeing the slaves and they were supposed to have 10 acres and a mule that was never given to them the dems owe them.

    2. @Jewel B So you aren’t aware that Dixicrats left the Democrat party after the passage of Civil Rights? Or that Nixion welcomed them with open arms?
      www youtube com/watch?v=xgeT0Klkqug&ab_channel=JesseDollemore

    3. @Jewel B about the 72 trillion dollars or the fact that their lefties. Rural areas are predominantly Republican so your whole comment contradicts itself. Do you realize 72 trillion hasn’t been spent on anything.

    4. @Drake Fire Mis- and disinformation can undermine public confidence in the electoral process, as well as in our democracy. Elections are administered by state and local officials who implement numerous safeguards to protect the security of your vote pursuant to various state and federal laws and processes.

    5. @ε’ͺε’ͺε°ι»‘ηŒ« Maybe it’s the rights brains that are fuzzy due to all of that disinfectant they were told to inject – by their leader

  5. They have created a monster that their scared of .. Making a fool seem like he’s untouchable is a disaster for the country next time he may succeed in killing them.πŸ‘ΉπŸ˜ˆπŸ˜‘πŸ€¬ SAD!!!!πŸ₯Ί

    1. House Bill 1359, otherwise known as the Texas Independence Referendum
      Act, would let residents vote on if the Texas Legislature should create
      a joint interim committee to create a plan for independence for the
      state.
      In a press release provided to The Gateway Pundit, the Texas
      Nationalist Movement explained that β€œthe bill would give Texans an
      opportunity to head to the polls in November of 2021 and start the
      process of reasserting our status as an independent nation. If the
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    2. Dems started slavery, took a war to free them! Dems loved Hitler, took a war to stop them. American Dems right now are the same Nazi’s.

    3. @john lerner 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 Communism is worse. Dont play the you are the ra^c^is^ts not us game. Its lame

  6. If Mitch had mentored Alexander the Great, then Alexander would never had accomplished anything. “Dr No” doesn’t ever get anything done!

    1. πŸ—ΌπŸ—½πŸ™ŠπŸ“’πŸ“£ This is a WITCH HUNT…. The SATANISTS VS. TRUMP!!!!!!!.
      They’d like to impeach πŸ‘€him for the FOLLOWING REASONS:
      πŸ™ŠπŸ“£πŸ“’
      πŸ“’BUILDING MORE JOBS
      For
      πŸ“’CREATING PEACE βœŒπŸŽ€IN THE MIDDLE EAST
      For
      πŸ“’Lowering Taxes
      Lowering cost of MEDICINE
      INCREASING SOC. SEC. FOR SENIORS
      Helping our VETS get better service
      CREATING SPACE FORCE
      ETC.
      For THESE reasons, you’re IMPEACHING Donald Trump!? REALLLLLYYYY??? Even though he’s now a PRIVATE CITIZEN!!!
      This is not a country any more. They’ve turned it into an insane asylum!πŸ˜ͺ

    2. i cant believe we Democrats didnt rig the election against McConnell, no more counting any Republican votes! Democrat Party rule = perfect Anti American Socialist Government!

    1. Please don’t forget all the people who lost their lives during the entire summer riots and all the people who lost their businesses due to looting and burning.

  7. “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein. This is why we have this problem in the first place.

  8. *Please tell me if there is one Democrat left that believes one “word” that comes out of any republican’s mouth anymore! If so can you verify why and how you could believe such a thing!*

  9. By this time the Democratic Senate must know that nobody can trust or take McConnell or Lindsey at their word !!!

  10. Not surprised that McConnell did that. He’s pure evil and only interested in serving himself and hoping people will forget his complicity. I cannot understand how Kentucky voted to keep him in office.

  11. They’re free to do whatever they like. Unfortunately, sooner or later, they will pay the price. Cowards.

    1. This was someone who lost an election fair and square. Claimed he won by a lot and could not verify his claim, refused to concede and mobilized insurrection. They were all seen hiding under tables and chairs. Still, you’re clapping for him?

  12. If they let him off the hook it won’t STOP! And than seeing the National Guard everywhere we go will become the new norm.

    1. Dems started slavery, took a war to free them! Dems loved Hitler, took a war to stop them. American Dems right now are the same Nazi’s.

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