“The mob was fed lies,” the majority leader says.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said President Donald Trump “provoked” the rioters who stormed the Capitol earlier this month as Congress was certifying the presidential election results, his strongest condemnation yet of the outgoing president’s actions that led to the violent insurrection targeting lawmakers.
McConnell’s remarks come as the Senate is awaiting formal transmission of the House’s impeachment article passed last week, which charged Trump with “willful incitement of insurrection.” The Kentucky Republican, who will soon become the minority leader when Democrats take control of the chamber later this week, has not yet said whether he would vote to convict the president in the Senate’s upcoming trial, which will begin after President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated and immediately once Pelosi sends the article across the Capitol.
“The mob was fed lies,” McConnell said on the Senate floor on the last full day of Trump’s presidency. “They were provoked by the president and other powerful people. And they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like. But we pressed on.”
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Mitch McConnell says Trump “provoked” the rioters who stormed the Capitol earlier this month https://t.co/MufkzDqHTD
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Sen. Mitch McConnell: "The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people." https://t.co/q7gJXR5wzi pic.twitter.com/azRpQxBMaH
— The Hill (@thehill) January 19, 2021
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