Mitch McConnell Knew the Depths of Trump's Plot to Steal the Election Weeks Before January 6

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Oh, good. Another book that contains details it would have been nice to know at the time, before all hell broke loose on Capitol Hill. From CNN:

If Trump could successfully pressure Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to de-certify Biden’s narrow win in Georgia, that would lead to a domino effect: Officials in Pennsylvania and Michigan would follow suit and overturn Biden’s electoral victory, Trump believed, a stunning reversal that could keep him in the White House for a second term. And Trump was certain he could subvert the election outcome, telling McConnell, then the Senate majority leader, and other top Republicans that he had personally been on the phone with officials in Pennsylvania and Michigan – and they told him they would move to keep him in power, despite the results showing Biden had won their states.

“I’ve been calling folks in those states and they’re with us,” Trump is reported to have told the Senate GOP leaders in a private December 2020 phone call, according to a soon-to-be-released book by New York Times political reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, both CNN political analysts.

December? Weeks before the shitstorm, and “Senate leaders” already heard it from the horse’s…ah…mouth that the steal was underway. Did any of them warn anybody? The Capitol Police? The Pentagon? The FBI? DC police? God forbid they should tip off the Democrats. Mitch McConnell had better things to do.

An excerpt of the book, provided to CNN, also underscores the difficult political spot in which Trump’s conspiracies left McConnell, who was hoping to shift the focus away from the 2020 election and instead put the weight of the party behind the races for two Senate seats in Georgia, both of which were headed to January 2021 runoffs and would determine the next Senate majority. McConnell maintained a strategic silence over Trump’s lies in an attempt to prevent him from sabotaging the GOP’s chances ahead of the runoffs, the book said. “We’ve got to stay focused on Georgia,” McConnell said to his colleagues right after they got off the phone with Trump in December 2020.

God, you can fck right off, you unpatriotic chelonian hack. Mitch McConnell believes in only two things—his power, and the money it can bring in. He doesn’t give a tortoise’s dick for his country or its institutions. At least Jefferson Davis had the class to give up his Senate seat before he helped endanger the republic. They all knew, every scurvy one of them. Put them all under oath, and lock up anyone who ignores a summons. Let justice be done, though the gravy trains fall.

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MagicalUnicornFart on April 15th, 2022 at 01:05 UTC »

So, pretty much everyone knew, and did nothing…then voted against impeachment, or removing him.

They’re all fucking traitors. All of them. Treason and fascism…and, they get to keep their jobs taking the country apart one brick at a time, until they win, because justice has a price.

We’re done, as a country. These fuckers have to go. They’re traitors to the Republic.

Distant-moose on April 14th, 2022 at 21:54 UTC »

Trump may be a terrible human being, but McConnell is the most guilty in the downfall of American democracy.

Frostiron_7 on April 14th, 2022 at 20:35 UTC »

Which is why it's not just Trump but hundreds of Republicans in Congress who must all go to prison if Garland wants to prove he's above politics.