Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has once again betrayed conservative Americans, and possibly ended his career with his latest move.
During a Senate Republican leaders press conference back on Tuesday, February 1st, Senator Mitch McConnell outright stated that he is against shortening the jail sentences of people who participated in the January 6th Capitol riot.
The Kentucky Republican’s comments came just days after former President Donald Trump suggested that he may be open to pardoning people who were charged in connection with January 6th if he runs and is re-elected in 2024.
“Another thing we’ll do, and so many people have been asking me about it, if I run and if I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly,” Trump said, causing the crowd to break out in cheers. “We will treat them fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly.”
“This hasn’t happened to all of the other atrocities that took place recently,” the former president added, likely referring to the crime epidemic sweeping the country, especially from the BLM riots. “Nothing like this has happened. What that ‘unselect committee’ is doing and what the people are doing who are running those prisons is a disgrace. It’s a disgrace. We will treat them fairly.”
When asked how concerned he was about Trump’s comments regarding potential pardons, McConnell gave a typical RINO answer.
“Well, I can speak for myself. The election of 2020 was decided December the 14th of 2020 when the Electoral College certified the winner of the election,” Senator McConnell said.
“What we saw here on January 6th was an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another, which had never happened before in our country,” he added.
“165 people have pleaded guilty to criminal behavior. None of the trials have been finished yet, but 165 have pleaded guilty to criminal behavior,” Senator McConnell continued.
“My view is, I would not be in favor of shortening any of the sentences for any of the people who pleaded guilty to crimes,” McConnell concluded.
As of January 2022, a year after the Capitol riot, the Department of Justice had arrested 725 people from all 50 states in connection to the incident.
