The rift within the Republican Party spilled out into full view this week.
After voting to acquit Donald Trump on an impeachment charge of incitement of insurrection following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said unequivocally that the former president is to blame.
“There is no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” said McConnell, who noted he didn’t vote to convict because he believes a former official can’t be tried for impeachment.
Trump responded, as he likes to say, 10 times harder. In a statement Tuesday, he called McConnell “a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack” and added, “[I]f Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again.”
McConnell worked with Trump over his four years in the White House. The Senate leader shepherded Trump’s tax cuts through Congress and got a record number…
— to www.kcrw.com
