McConnell also implying here that there may be ramifications for Senators who egged on the mob. Ted Cruz was in the Senate chair as McConnell spoke.
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SCHUMER: "President Trump invented the lie that motivated these criminals. He exhorted them to come to Washington. He then directed them at the U.S. Capitol. And his demagoguery whipped them into a frenzy."pic.twitter.com/IfP4A8HEcH
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SCHUMER: "Let me be clear. There will be an impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate. There will be a vote on convicting the President for high crimes and misdemeanors. And if the President is convicted, there will be a vote on barring him from running again."
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and also putting the blame on a handful of his closest allies, apparentlyhttps://www.vox.com/2021/1/4/22213246/republican-senators-hawley-cruz-cotton-trump-electoral-college-presidential-election-joe-biden …
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"other powerful people" An enormous abdication of responsibility.
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Throwing Trump under the bus, in real time
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Post-Trump GOP reforming itself. Post-Revolution Reconstruction.
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He wants Trump out of the Republican Party
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as expected he would say
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Actions have consequences?
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