The top two Republican leaders in Congress were at odds Tuesday over the Republican National Committee’s recent resolution that formally censured GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for serving on the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, pressed by CNN’s Manu Raju on the RNC’s decision to refer to that day as “legitimate political discourse” in the resolution, said that what occurred on January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol was “a violent insurrection.”
“We all were here. We saw what happened,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said Tuesday. “It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next. That’s what it was.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, meanwhile, defended the RNC’s use of “legitimate political discourse,” claiming that the RNC had been referring to the House select committee’s subpoenas to RNC officials who were in Florida at the time of the Capitol attack.
Then, of course, there are those Republicans who still support the Trump clown show including the crew who felt the insurrection was a helluva good idea.
Save America February 9, 2022
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
“Mitch McConnell does not speak for the Republican Party, and does not represent the views of the vast majority of its voters. He did nothing to fight for his constituents and stop the most fraudulent election in American history. And he does nothing to stop the lawless Biden Administration, the invasion of our Borders, rising Inflation, Unconstitutional mandates, the persecution of political opponents, fact finding on the incompentent [sic] Afghanistan withdrawal, the giving away our energy independence, etc., which is all because of the fraudulent election. Instead, he bails out the Radical Left and the RINOs.
If Mitch would have fought for the election, like the Democrats would have if in the same position, we would not be discussing any of the above today, and our Country would be STRONG and PROUD instead of weak and embarrassed.”
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Conservative National Review Calls GOP ‘Morally Repellent’ For Latest Jan. 6 Response
Calling the action of the Jan. 6 rioters “legitimate political discourse” is “political malpractice of the highest order coming from people whose entire job is politics.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/national-review-jan-6-political-discourse-capitol-riot_n_61ff2c3de4b06abdc4312393
Steve Bannon thinks Donald Trump will be among the three worst presidents in American history: new book https://www.rawstory.com/bannon-thinks-trump-worst-president/
“The 14th Amendment Threat to Madison Cawthorn’s Congressional Career Is Real : The North Carolina State Board of Elections has asserted it has the authority to remove him from the ballot.” https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a39038567/madison-cawthorn-14th-amendment-ballot-north-carolina/
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same…”
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah on Sunday blasted his fellow GOP members who attended a White nationalist event and those who support Russia President Vladimir Putin as the country invades Ukraine. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/27/politics/mitt-romney-gop-ukraine-russia/index.html
The comment from Romney follows criticism from Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican, of Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona for speaking at the America First Political Action Conference that took place in Orlando, Florida and was organized by White nationalist Nick Fuentes. Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, also a Republican, criticized Greene and Gosar.
Ex-AG William Barr attacks Trump as unfit to lead as he urges GOP to move on in ‘24 https://nypost.com/2022/02/27/ex-ag-william-barr-attacks-trump-as-unfit-to-lead-as-he-urges-gop-to-move-on-in-24/
7AM MST, tomorrow morning, 28th
Ex-President Donald Trump blasted Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp for refusing to overturn the 2020 election results at a Saturday rally supporting Kemp’s primary challenger.
“Brian Kemp is a turncoat, a coward, and a complete and total disaster,” the 45th president told a crowd of supporters in Commerce, Georgia of the fellow Republican, whom he helped get elected in 2018.
“Before we can defeat the Democrats, socialists and communists … we first have to defeat the RINO sellouts and the losers in the primaries this spring,” Trump told the crowd, referring to Kemp as a “Republican in name only.”
…Georgia is being closely eyed as a battleground to determine how much influence Trump still wields in the Republican Party, more than a year after he left the White House.” https://nypost.com/2022/03/27/ex-president-trump-slams-georgia-gov-kemp-over-2020-election-results/
“Republicans have finally had enough of Madison Cawthorn” (Charlotte Observer) https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article259972645.html