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‘Where’s Mitch McConnell?’ Senate leader silent amid Trump indictment

June 14, 2023 | | Print Article

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is refusing to comment on the indictment of former President Trump, indicating a serious rift in the GOP over support for Trump as the left attempts to stop him from running for the presidency in 2024 by throwing him in prison for life.

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Moderate Deep State Republicans are scurrying away from Trump as fast as they can as conservatives stand firm behind and around the former president during a perceived witch hunt meant to silence a political opponent.

House Republicans and even those competing with Trump for the Republican nomination are rallying behind Trump, slamming the Justice Department for targeting him unfairly. However, a number of Republican senators are skittish when it comes to defending the former president from charges that he willfully mishandled top-secret documents and risked national security.

McConnell appears to be missing in action and abdicating Senate leadership when a fellow Republican is being railroaded on trumped-up charges. It is becoming apparent that there are a number of Republicans who want Trump out of the picture as badly as the Democrats do.

Trump spoke Tuesday night after his arraignment as support for the former president skyrockets and unrest grows among Americans over political persecution.

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McConnell is being joined by Senate Republicans who assert that the 37-count indictment brought against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith is far more serious and more credible than the 34 felony charges that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) brought against him in March.

“There are very serious allegations in the indictment, and I think the Justice Department — as they attempt to prove their case — they’ve got a high burden of proof to convince people that they’re handling this fairly and as they would for any other elected official,” Senate Republican Whip John Thune (SD) commented, according to The Hill.

The fact of the matter is they are not handling it fairly as President Biden had confidential documents as well spread over numerous locations.

Thune was asked if he thought the special prosecutor’s case was more credible than the charges brought forth by Bragg. Thune adamantly replied, “Oh yeah.”

“That one was clearly, in my view, politically motivated, and the facts were pretty thin and the law was actually pretty thin in that case,” he added.

Without mentioning Biden at all and his actions, Thune contended, “You’re talking about national security secrets, classified information.”

The Hill speciously reported, “The Justice Department included photos of boxes of secret documents stored haphazardly around Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, including the image of boxes stacked up in a bathroom, another of documents scattered across a storage room floor and a third of boxes stacked in a ballroom, where potentially hundreds or even thousands of people could have had access to them.”

Again, that fact is being propagandized. One-hundred and two documents were seized from Trump and not all were classified. They would fit in a couple of inches inside one box. The majority of the boxes pictured had nothing to do with the documents and are being used to further smear Trump and sway a potential jury.

“I think his unwillingness to appeal to voters beyond his base makes it unlikely that he could win a general election,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) weaselly remarked.

The Republicans who apparently want Trump gone are warning their compatriots to not rush to the defense of the former president.

“The charges in this case are quite serious and cannot be casually dismissed,” moderate Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said in a statement throwing Trump under the bus. “Mishandling classified documents is a federal crime because it can expose national secrets, as well as the sources and methods they were obtained through.”

Trump is no fan of Murkowski and she is using his indictment to strike back at him. She rushed to reporters on Monday, proclaiming how serious the charges are and that a Republican nominee for president under indictment could spell disaster for the GOP in 2024.

“I don’t think that it is good for the Republican Party to have a nominee and … the frontrunner under a series of indictments,” she grandstanded.

Right on cue, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), another foe of Trump’s, claimed the “allegations are serious and, if proven, would be consistent with his other actions offensive to the national interest, such as withholding defensive weapons from Ukraine for political reasons and failing to defend the Capitol from violent attack and insurrection.”

“I’m increasingly angry as I think about it. The country is going to go through angst and turmoil and that could have been avoided if President Trump would have just turned the documents in when he was asked to do so. All he had to do when the subpoena came was give the documents back and he wouldn’t have been indicted and the country wouldn’t have gone through what it’s going through. This was entirely avoidable if he just turned in the documents. Why didn’t he?” he asked.

It should be noted that the Republicans taking a stance against Trump in his hour of need are by and large considered Republicans in Name Only (RINO)s. Both Murkowski and Romney voted to impeach Trump. Romney was the only Republican to vote to convict him.

Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairwoman Joni Ernst (Iowa) commented that too much classified information has been leaked. But she also criticized the Justice Department for indicting Trump and chose to ignore former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Biden.

“I think across the board, we’ve seen many instances of classified documents getting out into areas where they shouldn’t be, but it seems there are two systems of justice here, one for President Trump and one for everybody else who’s had classified documents,” she contended.

“They want him to go away, so they wouldn’t be very upset if this is the thing that finally takes him out,” a former Senate Republican aide commented on the Senate Republican leaders’ silence on Trump’s indictment, according to The Hill.

Democrats and the media are celebrating the so-called arrest of a former sitting president as they go all-in on political persecution of an opponent they fear.

“The indictment makes it clear that the information involved here was not casual, it went to the heart and soul of our defense of the United States, in terms of nuclear confrontations, maps, prepared invasion plans,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who also serves on the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee.

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