McConnell Comments On Trump Decision
Mitch McConnell just can’t let it go.
There he was, trotting himself over to CBS’s 60 Minutes, sitting across from Trump-deranged Leslie Stahl, ready to relive January 6 like it was yesterday. And of course, he knew exactly what he was doing.
McConnell didn’t choose CBS at random—he knew he was stepping into a warm, Trump-hating embrace, where Stahl would nod along, feign concern, and set him up with one softball after another. And like clockwork, the segment played out exactly as expected.
McConnell started with his well-rehearsed grievance, dramatically recounting the chaos of that day. His staff barricading doors. The sound of rioters in the halls. The fear, the disorder, the horror! Stahl, ever the enabler, fed him the lines: You remember what you told your staff that night? Oh, did he ever. “President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” McConnell declared. And just like that, his grudge against Trump was reaffirmed on national television.
The question is: Why now?
Why, at a moment when Trump and a strong majority of Republicans are focused on uniting the party and reversing the damage of four years under Biden, is McConnell clinging to a political battle he lost long ago? Why keep harping on January 6, when the voters—the very people who put Trump back in the White House—have clearly moved on?
The answer isn’t complicated. McConnell is still bitter. And like so many others in the old GOP establishment, he simply cannot accept that Trump took the party out of his hands and reshaped it into something new—something actually representative of the conservative voters who make up its base.
And let’s be real: Leslie Stahl knew this. That’s why she asked McConnell how he feels about Trump supporters calling January 6 a “day of love” and the rioters “martyrs.” She wasn’t looking for analysis—she was baiting him into doubling down. And he took it. “Yeah. No, it was an insurrection,” he declared, as predictably as ever.
Then came the question about Trump’s pardons for January 6 defendants. Was McConnell going to support his party’s leader? Of course not. “I think pardoning the people who’ve been convicted is a mistake,” he said, making it clear yet again where his loyalties lie.