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Spot on. It’s been clear for some time that the McConnells of this world want Dems to take down Trump so that he’s out of their lives AND that they can run blaming Dems for taking down Trump. Further proof that they are that thing that Donald Trump said that he can grab with impunity. They could fill volumes of Profiles in Cowardice.

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McConnell is not a leader. If he was, he'd use his power to see that someone else - who's not totally nuts - became the Republican nominee. Instead he privately stews about Trump but still enables him and will still vote for him. One of the worst of the worst ! ! !

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He proved he was truly antidemocratic, anticonstitutional, an the "worst of the worst" when he withheld the vote for Obama's supreme court pick in 2016. The epitome of politics over country and a preview of the further warping of the GOP.

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Brian, you are absolutely 100% correct.

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Ok but I thought he should have been impeached in the 2019 hearings for the very perfect phone call. They were given SOOO many chances to break up with their abuser. Greed and power are their only interest. All these GOP suck at being humans and make terrible life decisions.

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He was impeached but he wasn't convicted. Twice.

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Moscow Mitch had two bites at that apple - spit them both out

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True. I stand by my observation there were opportunities for intervention even before J6 and opportunities for denouncement and recognizing he’s bad for the country publicly and on record. And also not pretending like he’s NOT A TERRIBLE PERSON with no moral compass outside of what benefits him on any given day.

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By failing act "bravely" as you indicate Chris, McConnell will go down in history as one of the core enablers of the destruction of today's GOP. McConnell's legacy will be a classic text book example of a complete failure of leadership, morals, and honor.

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Also it drives me crazy that these revelations are just coming out now (similar to the Woodward book) when they could have been publicized in primary season

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Agree.

But I also think that it would have changed nothing. The Trump base couldn't care less what McConnell thinks of him. McConnell hating him might make them like Trump more.

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I agree, Chris. Nobody, but NOBODY, is saying "Well I was gonna vote for Trump, but will now vote for Harris because of what Bob Woodward wrote and what Mitch McConnell says."

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And McConnell would just decline to comment or dismiss the whole thing

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Came here to say this! Why now with so little time left in the campaign season to help get this critical message across. Too little, too late.

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I admit I have never published a book, but I imagine those things sometimes take time. I assume it is up to the publisher to decide when to release a book for publication. Plus, better for these revelations to come out now than not at all.

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Would not have mattered, no one was gonna beat President Trump in the primaries.

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While McConnell had the opportunity of being remembered as one of the most consequential Senate Majority leaders, by the way he managed his position to deliver many legislative victories, his legacy will be dominated by two actions, both related to Trump.

1. His manipulation of how Supreme Court nominees are handled, denying Obama for 11 months the opportunity to seat a Supreme Court nominee, and pushing thru three controversial SCOTUS nominees for Trump, especially Barrett right before the 2020 election, directly leading to the overturn of Roe v. Wade; and

2. His inability to do what was right, and what he knew was right, by allowing Trump to continue to dominate the Republican Party today. McConnell had many opportunities to stand up and lead the party, and the country, in another direction, however, he actively chose not to do so, publicly and privately.

These actions will forever overshadow his legacy.

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The first line of McConnell's obituary should read: "He saved Donald Trump's ass, even though he hated his guts."

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We are where we are SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE MCCONNELL DIDN'T do what he should have done and impeached him in the first place. Coward.

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One night Mitch went to bed and thought all his fellow republicans were sipping whiskey in their wood paneled study with Muffie the golden retriever at their feet and a perfectly stoked fire roaring up the chimney of their home next to the country club. It was a Grand Old Party.

The next morning Mitch woke up and was chased out of the Senate by a bunch of repugnant thugs would were trying to kill one of them and would have been perfectly happy to lynch his wife as well as anyone else they hated.

Moscow Mitch sold his soul to the devil that very day. His sold out his wife, his manhood, his dignity and anything else he had accumulated in a career of elected office. But to most of us, not a shocking change. When he sold his soul to prevent Merrick Garland from getting on the court, he revealed his true colors. He announced on the day Obama was elected that his goal was to make Obama a 1-term president. No congratulations, no sign of peace, no reaching for common ground.

He announced that very night that the black man was never going to get any assistance from him, and he carried that mantra for a long time.

So Mitch, most of us were on to you for a very long time. Party over country won't get you into heaven, and it certainly isn't going to get you a Profile in Courage award.

But the best part, the very party you went down the tubes for...hates you now.

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Elected Republicans fear the wrath of Donald J Trump. They fear that if they act with decency and morality, then they won’t get re-elected. It never occurs to them that just maybe, if they stuck with actual conservative ideology instead of supporting an old, wrinkly, morally corrupt fascist, they could still win elections. Too easy to sway the low-information monotooth mouthbreathers instead of appealing to principled conservatives. These elected Republicans are lazy and entirely unprincipled.

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Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is the perfect example of a conservative Republican who has refused to kowtow to Trump. Unfortunately such people are rarities into what passes as today's GOP.

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No one likes Mitch McConnell either. Can't wait for him to leave

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And yet McConell (as many other in the GOP) will still vote for Trump

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I have a dream.....that they are all SAYING that they are going to vote for Trump in public but when they are actually in the voting booth ( or in the privacy of their home for mail in ballots ), that they either don't vote for him ( or anyone ) or , by the grace of god, they vote for Kamala. What they say ( to save face and attacks from Trump/sters ) and what they do may be 2 very very different things.

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Like most of the reporting about Trump, those around him and the today’s Republican Party, as time goes by, almost all reports eventually are verified with chilling detail.

McConnell disdain for Trump and the full knowledge of his exponential danger is still stunning when the details of direct quotes are published.

The fact is that McConnell’s observation, realization and FULL AWARENESS of the existential threat of Trump is held by an overwhelming majority of today’s elected Republicans.

In private, of course.

Trump has always been an obvious threat and pernicious cancer . But his REAL power comes from the totally corrupt accomplices of virtually the whole Republican Party.

The GOP is not a functional political party in a healthy democracy. It is a full blown cult of cowardliness, greed, self-interest, hypocrisy and phoniness which proves their fake “patriotism” is simply part of the con.

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Let’s never forget that McConnell is also the reason Trump placed two of his three SCOTUS justices. The next round of publication of history textbooks should have a chapter on the many ways McConnell failed this country and violated his oath of office.

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Exactly--He hated Trump but he loved the power being the GOP leader brought. He wasnt willing to publicly challenge Trump because the MAGA members of his caucus would have thrown him out. McConnell seems to love his power most of all.

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McConnell is a coward like the rest of them. He's 82 years old and retiring as leader. There is nothing to be gained by endorsing Trump.

And he said all that stuff about his family. Again, Profiles in Cowardice.

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