McConnell on Trump’s Jan. 6 actions: ‘He put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger’
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There’s a new book from New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns set to come out soon that will shed light on the nasty battle over the 2020 presidential election results. This means that serious information that probably should have been reported by the Times many months ago is now beginning to leak out in order to promote the book. The Washington Post has an early copy of the book for review and on Monday released an explosive tidbit concerning Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s conversations with Martin in the hours after Donald Trump and his MAGA friends tried to overthrow the government.
It has been no secret that McConnell has long been angling, the way many do in the delusional GOP, back toward a clearly defunct status quo in his party. That status quo was long ago abandoned when he and others became entirely complicit in the corruptions of the Donald Trump administration. Since then, McConnell—who had originally described the Jan. 6 insurrectionists as “thugs” and “mobs”—has retreated as far out of the public eye as possible while also trying to retain neoconservative control over the GOP.
According to the Post, the new Times reporters’ book details a conversation between McConnell and Martin that tells a story of a man who thinks he’s gotten everything he wants and is ready to dance on Donald Trump’s self-dug grave.
“I feel exhilarated by the fact that this fellow finally, totally discredited himself,” McConnell reportedly said after the events of Jan. 6, 2021 had unfolded. McConnell shared a macabre analogy with Martin: “He put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Couldn’t have happened at a better time.”
Martin writes that McConnell fished for rumors about whether or not Vice President Mike Pence or Trump’s Cabinet of con artists were making any moves to try and get Trump pushed out of office early under the 25th Amendment, and even said he had spoken with Democratic leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi about releasing a joint statement together urging Trump not to be anywhere near the inauguration.
Clearly none of those things happened, and now McConnell, like the turtle he resembles, has spent the past year and few months using his shell to keep from having any direct confrontations with The Donald, while also seeing if the constitutional provisions for enacting law against corrupt officials can function to keep him in control of his warring fascist political party. Sadly, these are the same provisions that he has personally worked to erode and defang.