With McConnell’s endorsement of Trump, it gives the green light to other remaining skeptical Republicans — and the deep-pocketed donors who fuel campaigns — to fall in line despite any reservations they may have about a return to the Trump era.
After the Jan. 6 attack of the Capitol, McConnell issued a grave rebuke of Trump’s behavior, blaming the defeated president for spreading “wild” claims of a stolen election.
While McConnell refused to convict Trump in the Senate trial on House impeachment charges of inciting the insurrection at the Capitol, which could have left him ineligible to serve again as president, he warned that Trump was not immune from civil or criminal prosecution once he left the White House.
Even though he’s retiring from the team.
He could burn those bridges without harming his (now ended) political career and denounce Trump, but he chooses not to be the better person.
I thought he was stepping down as leader, not retiring. Those are pretty fundamentally different things.
Good point. I was getting too hopeful there for a second.
Because “uNiTy”.