Axios reports that Sen. Mitch McConnell is leaning towards convicting Trump as the New York Times reports that McConnell is “pleased” Democrats are impeaching Trump again. Eugene Robinson tells Lawrence O’Donnell that this is McConnell “letting it be known that he is done with Donald Trump.” David Jolly says McConnell’s shift gives Senate Republicans cover to reconsider their votes, meaning conviction “might actually be in play.” Aired on 01/12/2020.
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Axios: McConnell Leans Toward Convicting Trump | The Last Word | MSNBC
I’ll believe it when I see it.
The turtle stuck his head out and realized he was in a pig sty not the swamp.
@Geoffrey Fyfe The senile, decrepit, anti-populist GOP cost the GOP the Senate/Congress. If the GOP actually passed populist, pro-common people laws and drained the swamp then the GOP would have probably been winning in the past couple of decades. Instead they sucked up to big banks, big corporations, and cheap but illegal labor.
Yoh yes
https://youtu.be/zFJ2AN_CZH8
oh good
My thoughts exactly.
I am totally with you. Personally, I don’t believe any of the republicans will get any punishment at all.
WOW!! He’s showing signs of brain activity!
It’s all about the money. When the big corporations switched off the donations to the GOP, McConnell turned on a dime.
@red Buoy …. Jettisoning “Dead Weight”… Exactly! And predictable from Mitch McConnell alliance with Anything or Anyone.
@bo ter berg: If anything, he’s doing what his wife tells him to do.
Lol!!!
Losing money
Big money has being cut there we go,
Yes. It’s all about the money. When the big corporations switched off the donations to the GOP, McConnell turned on a dime.
All banks are done with Trump any one of sentaors that back him or anyone that’s support him all gone
@mugwump242 That shows you who really runs America
@Bruce Davis he will never get another bank loan
Yoh yes
https://youtu.be/zFJ2AN_CZH8
oh good
Anyone NOT leaning toward convicting Trump is as seditious and immoral as he is.
@Craig or your mother
My God , I did not think it was possible , the Kool-Aid crowd screech louder and higher pitch than
they did for 3 years 24 X 7 Russia Gate Hoax ….children I am impressed
Trump is the only politician between liberty/freedom and communism. Just watch.
Innocent until proven guilty you left-leaning drone.
@Craig You are so superior. Who are you to judge? Oh, you are godless… I get it.
Oh he’s only changing his tune because their corporate sponsors stopped donations because of the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol🧐
@Jeremy Dyar
36 years is way too long, it is time for he to go!!!
@Reyana Moria
Only in your wet dreams that Trump would have any chances to run for president again! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Keep dreaming!!!
@Reyana Moria That’s not the way things work in America. Where do you live?
@Jeremy Dyar Mitch probably trying to save the party. He just won reelection(6yr term) he is 76 he want run again.
He is mad that trump lost him his majority leader status and democrats co trol the house and senate and presidency.
Money, he’s going to lose a lot of money. Follow the money.
If you’re worried about money you’re a Republican.
@cannibal014 If you’re worried about BIG BUSINESSES pulling donations, then yes you’re PROBABLY a Republican (some Dems are no better).
Did you catch it?
We can only hope
Its past money
Mr Turtle is an old rich white guy
What could he possibly want to buy at his age he couldn’t already afford 10 of
Bunker boy is in so much debt, with walls closing in on failing business
There’s not enough fools left to milk
Doesnt matter what Moscow Mitch and the GOP do, the stain of their corruption is permanent.
HE IS THE POO STAIN ON THE UNDER WEAR OF THE ‘MERICAN FABRIC…😳
Yoh yes
https://youtu.be/zFJ2AN_CZH8
oh good
Agree but I hope McConnell throws him out.
Toh yes
https://youtu.be/3sL2x8NPyb8
oh good
@Rob M they were never united
McConnell looses his power and now looks to take revenge on his fellow psychopath.
Nailed it!
Enjoy the show
It’s his turn to throw Trump under the bus. 🤣🤣🤣
Nailed it apart from *loses 🙂
@G Woodsy Thank you – was coming here to say EXACTLY that. “Loose”/”lose” has become the new there/their/they’re.
I think all the Nays should face impeachment.
Public spankings! Tan their bee-hinds!
Yoh yes
https://youtu.be/zFJ2AN_CZH8
oh good
That bad man needs alot of help help thank God he has a bad evil in him he’s a very bad man no good that’s all I can say for now thank you and God bless you all take care God is there with thanks and cake
Reverse uno card! Those who said yea are going to lose their seat in the run offs lol.
‘Last minute impeachments? Who you gonna call? Nancy’s Impeachment and shampoo Inc. This week’s special; get 3 impeachments, pay for 2!’
McConnell carried water for Trump for four years and his reward?
The base of his own party now calls McConnell a traitor, and the rest of the world harbors even more disdain for him, but for much better reasons
Where my money Mitch?
He got his judges.
@Kineahora Republican leaders knew Trump had hijacked their party as soon as their constituents voted for Trump to be the Republican nominee, despite their collective campaigning against him.
McConnell and other Party leaders carried water for Trump in exchange for a massive tax cut for corporations and the wealthy, repealing environmental regulations, and packing the courts with conservative judges.The only people who got played in the end are the American people.
A party built on opportunistic self-serving narcissists always ends in cannibalism.
shame by associasion!
Evil vs evil. One of the reasons why McConnell is turning against 45th is because he lost.
Trump sacrificial piece of Rooster, who did not serve his Mastery.
It’s the loss of corporate donations. He didn’t care till that happened.
They danced with the devil well now they can sleep in his bed!
You sleep with the tiger 🐯 you will get clawed
@Ford Prefect You, sir, are obviously a froody hipster. Respect.
Unfortunately the entire country is paying for it. Well I wish you all the best for democracy and your country.
@Ford Prefect “the devil made me do it” = I had no self control. Regardless of mythology or theology its psychology. Everything has a price. You can’t work with a mobster and expect not be tainted by his crimes.
@Natalie D Macawaris sad but true
Can’t stand McConnell. He is equally part of the problem in Washington
The problem is the whole system it’s forgotten it’s purpose to serve the people. What happened to Government For The People By The People.
@theresaI wright don’t leave out gaetz and Jordan.
@Jackie Bilder never liked that lying piece of wasted flesh …..
@Anime Boulevard Sorry to in form you but that part of America is now manufacturing cheap merchandise in China and being imported to the unemployed and underpaid American people.
@Sutikare Oluwagbenga and it shouldn’t be that way greed and corruption have overtaken what the country was founded on modern American is like Rome just waiting to fall.
It’s no longer profitable for them to side with trump. Let’s call it like it is
its not good for business anymore also at the end of the day the gop got what they wanted from trump.
@Aaron Hawley You talking about Caesar and Pompey? Interesting reference.
Trying to salvage their party. Funny how they keep rolling over and over and over and over. All of their actions are taped and aired to see what they really are inside. They enabled bad behavior and see where it ended up. Truth is if you unleash a mob, how can you really control such a mob? In some ways, this looks like this was a set up but it’s become all to easy to ensnare some people into their own play book of patterns. After you know their patterns, you allow them to carry them out to the point they go all the way to ruin just because that was the only way to get them to see their own actions caused it. This isn’t the first time a man ruined his own name by his own actions. Howard Stern warned him that it was a mistake to become potus. He should have listened. It’s hard to believe his path forward from now on will be a cake walk. The seed you sow – so shall you reap. The GOP is getting exactly what they sowed.
I’d say the Orange Utan destroyed the GOP, so Moscow McKremlin has nothing to lose. Greetings from the Netherlands.
@Chris Yeh yeah, a classic example of the instability and futility of power
The whole purpose of our form of government is to avoid these petty squabbles
This whole thing is McConnell’s fault. Everything he did pathed the way for this to happen.
He could have addressed the crazy President situation in the first impeachment -but instead tried to use him, and left our country to rot. Moscow Mitch packed the SC with judges who are arrogant in their own religious views, proud, not humble individuals, who will dispense their edicts on all of us. To them the constitution is dead and no changes will be allowed. No room for evolving. No room for progress. God help us with them, too.
50/50? Just decide are you for America or for the Antichrist in Trump
1933 Germany was on the same road we are now. By the end of 1945, Germany was in ruins. It started just like this.
The antiChrist slaughter the unborn. Christ does not. So who’s the antiChrist?
@TherealLumpendoodle…shut up Looney. Worry about yourself. My soul and relationship with God is on point. Now, sit back and watch the real devils go to prison. Next…..❤️
@Nancy Amen
There is more god in Trump little hands than your whole body. FO.
As soon as the corporations stoped the flow of money he changed his mind.
🤣
Funny how a loss of sponsors can grow a spine. MEDICAL MIRACLE
This is what happens when republicans get hit in their checkbook.
It’s the only thing they seem to care about.
Go back to sleep… the Democrats are here to save you from yourself. Just lean back, relax.
He’s trying to stick his sins on Trump now so that the people will forget his devilish stunts he did in 2020.