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Following the January 6 Capitol riot, then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he believed Donald Trump had “finally, totally discredited himself” and suggested Trump might be removed from office in favor of then Vice President Mike Pence, according to одломци from the upcoming nonfiction book Ово Неће Проћи that were published Monday by the Вашингтон пост.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 20, … [+]
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An “exhilarated” McConnell raised the possibility of removing Trump from office using the КСНУМКСтх Амандман, which allows the vice president and a majority of Congress to declare the president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” immediately making the vice president acting president, the Вашингтон пост цитирано Ово Неће Проћи као да каже
480 страница књига, which was authored by Њујорк тајмс reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, claims to bring together hundreds of interviews, recordings and unseen documents to offer an unfettered look at how Republican leaders responded to the 2020 election, Trump’s false claims of voter fraud and the Capitol riot.
Sections of the book also portray other national Republican leaders as criticizing Trump privately while appearing loyal in public, the Вашингтон пост пријавио.
A spokesperson for McConnell declined to comment on Martin and Burns’s book, the Вашингтон пост пријавио.
Ово Неће Проћи is сет for Publication May 3.
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Since its publication was announced, Ово Неће Проћи has made waves by threatening to expose alleged disparities between some Republican leaders’ private and public views toward Trump. According to Martin and Burns, legislators like Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) privately swore to “drive [Trump]
from politics”
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“He put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger,” McConnell рекао of Trump’s conduct on the day of the riot, according to an excerpt of Ово Неће Проћи објавио је Вашингтон пост. “Couldn’t have happened at a better time.”
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Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharysmith/2022/04/25/mcconnell-said-trump-totally-discredited-himself-during-january-6-riot-book-claims/