ICHEOKU says it is about time Mr Turtle retired from the Senate or at least resigned his leadership of Senate Republicans as he cannot be in opposition to the generally acknowledged dearly beloved leader of the party President Donald John Trump. Not any longer shall such open rebellion be tolerated, and particularly not now that the Senate has acquitted the president in the hoax impeachment trial, which they rightly did because the president was not guilty of committing the offense charged.
So, regardless of how anyone, including Mitch McConnell, feels about the president's preceding conducts leading up to the riot, the only relevant issue was whether his January 6th Save America Rally speech caused the riot. The speech was the sole basis for his indictment and it was proved that the speech did not trigger the riot and that was where the case should have closed for everyone including Mitch McConnell. The president was found not guilty and acquitted and Mitch McConnell should have left the matter rested there. But he went out of his way to personally re-indict the president on extraneous accusations which were not part of the original impeachment and thus started the beef with the president.
As a leader, he should show an example of leadership by not openly and publicly chastising a president from his party in such a disparaging manner. He should have known the implications of his words and weighted them thoroughly before uttering them. He could have admonished the president privately or in a Republican Senate conference, but he chose to publicly attack the president and that was where he crossed the line. Mitch McConnell was wrong and therefore at fault for publicly insulting the president and creating the current atmosphere of discord within the Republican Party. The president was put on trial and was found not guilty of the charged crime of "incitement of insurrection"; but instead of celebrating the not guilty verdict which his party recorded he decided to muddy up the president further; thus telegraphing that he would have had the president convicted had the charge been brought within jurisdiction and when he was still the Senate majority leader.
Why such animosity against a president who even made his wife a Transportation Secretary and helped the Republican Party in so many ways including in fund raising and winning seats for the party. Even if he sincerely felt that the president was somewhat responsible for the riot, why so publicly chastise him since the Senate has already voted to acquit the president. Whatever issues he may have with the president and which were eating him raw from the inside, he should have kept them to himself and not so publicly visit his frustrations on a president who was found not guilty of the opposition party's "incitement of insurrection", a continuation of their four years attack. The president did not incite the insurrection, at least not by the said speech and the charge was based on the speech, so what else was Mitch McConnell talking about.
It is imperative that this distinction be made in order to remove any fog or cloud which may still be hovering around and blanketing the judgment of some people, including Mitch McConnell; that they may understand clearly that even if the indictment was brought timely during the currency of Trump's presidency which would have given jurisdiction to the Senate, the president would have still not been convicted because the speech contains no words which would amount to "incitement of insurrection." The one count impeachment charge was based on the speech and nothing more; so it is either there was provable words of incitement of insurrection therein or the president walks as he did walk. The speech was the only relevant evidence needed in the matter and it showed that the president did not utter any word during that speech that could be interpreted as an incitement. Whatever other past statements are irrelevant.
It was one of the mistakes which President Donald John Trump made upon his inauguration not to have asked for Mitch McConnell to resign his leadership of the Senate Republicans alongside House Speaker Paul Ryan, to enable him start off with trusted leaders who are loyal to the president and whom the president would have relied on to accelerate his America First and Make America Great Again agendas. Such a new leadership would have worked better with the president in the overall general interest of implementing the Republican Party's agenda. The two men were never invested in MAGA project and were opposed to the president's emergence as presidential candidate of the party. This led to their lukewarm attitude to the president and made them stall the president's agenda which cost the bleeding in the party.
That single mistake hounded Trump's presidency and the Republican Party agenda throughout the four years he was in the White House. Even as recently as the January 5th Georgia's Senate runoff election, Mitch McConnell refused to honor the president's request for the payment of $2000 COVID-19 relief and you now know why those hurting Georgians voted for the Democratic Party's candidates. How can a political player not understand what was at stake then and now Joe Biden will get the same relief for his base which Mitch McConnell prevented Trump from delivering to his base which would have otherwise influenced the Georgia runoff election outcome.
It is obvious that Mitch McConnell has lost touch with the Republican Party's base and is no longer interested in what is the best interest of the party. He possibly figured that at his old age and probably on his last term in the Senate that he no longer needs the Republican Party and so could do whatever he wants, aware that he will not suffer any repercussion. It is possible too that he is still mad at the president for supplanting his profile in the Republican Party and taking over the leadership of the party. It is also possible that he is mad at the president for referring to him as a swamp creature and wanted to introduce term limit in Congress in order to drain the swamp and get rid of people like Mitch McConnell, who have outlived their usefulness and no longer fighting for the party's core values; and have become inducted members of the establishment Deep State Washington DC swamp. It is also possible that Mitch McConnell, a certified member of the Deep State, was hellbent on getting rid of Trump for good, an agenda and had to smear him after they could not convict him.
But where was Mitch's ire last year when several Democratic Party's members of the Congress were harassing President Trump, accused him of all manners of crimes including being a puppet of Vladimir Putin. When the Russia Collusion hoax was fever pitched which led to the Mueller's investigation and when they accused the president of organizing golden showers with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel, where was Mitch's anger. Where was Mitch McConnell when Eric Swalwell was sleeping with Chinese spy and possibly passing State secrets to her and Nancy Pelosi still kept him in the House's Security committee. Where was Mitch McConnell when the FBI was spying on President Trump and even withheld exculpatory evidence in the Russian Collusion malarkey. Where was Mitch when BLM and ANTIFA went on rampage last summer, protested him and his wife's dinner in a Kentucky restaurant, nosily picketed his home and even prevented Sarah Huckabee Sanders from eating her dinner and attacked Senator Ron Paul?
But suddenly, here comes Mitch the Turtle firing on all cylinders of condemnation, not only attacking the president but also Georgia's Congresswoman Marjorie Greene and admonishing her on how not to be a conspiracy theorist. It was acceptable to Mitch when Democrats were conspiracy theorists with the Russian Collusion. He did not attack them or their leaders then but now choses to attack the Congresswoman and the president. May be he is angry that the president took his shine from the Republican Party or mad that he is part of the swamp dwellers that the president wanted to drain. But whatever it is, Mitch McConnell cannot be allowed to sink the Republican Party or take his pound of flesh from the president based on a non existent righteous indignation by selectively trying to punish the president for what he did not do. Mitch McConnell must therefore retreat his steps and become the leader who listens to the led, the majority of the Republican Party MAGA base; and not destroy the Republican Party on his way out. Enough of the bickering with the president, Mitch. End it or make way by moving away.
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