SUNSHINE SHOWDOWN - It’s the juggernaut match-up Republicans can’t stop talking about: Trump vs. We’ll have much more to share in the coming days - including from Rachael, who’s suspending her maternity leave for the rollout.įormer President Donald Trump greets Florida Gov. (3) and House Republicans, eyeing the majority next year, sharpen their knives to impeach President JOE BIDEN and other members of his administration. (2) Democrats - who pulled punches in probing Trump during his presidency - try to correct the mistakes of the past through the high-profile Jan. (1) Trump readies another bid for the White House while Americans express rising anxiety over the state of democracy Besides the McConnell account, the book will raise pointed new questions about how Democrats went about trying to take down Trump - and whether they did all they could to try to turn the nation against him. These tantalizing new details are just a few of the revelations jam-packed into “Unchecked,” the only account of the Trump impeachments by front-line reporters who covered them both, conducting hundreds of interviews. In the end, McConnell determined that he simply couldn't break with the majority of his conference on such a consequential issue. McConnell’s team even went so far as to lay out two sets of arguments for his final floor speech for the trial: the first to be used as his justification for acquittal, as well as a backup in case he decided to convict.
In other parts of the book not included in the excerpt, “Unchecked” reveals that even after voting against the trial’s constitutionality, McConnell continued to entertain a vote to convict. “We don’t disagree on the substance we just disagree on the tactics,” McConnell told her.
While the two agreed Trump was a danger to the Republic, McConnell was worried that Trump would be able to use a conviction as a springboard back to the White House. 6, after McConnell returned from Fort McNair to his office, he told his staff: “We’ve all known that Trump is crazy. Ultimately, with his GOP colleagues closely watching for cues, McConnell voted to declare the impeachment unconstitutional in a test vote that set the stage for Trump’s acquittal less than three weeks later. “And that day, he wasn’t sure he was up to the task.” Yet “McConnell had never led such a rebellion” against a fellow Republican, the pair write. He argued with one of his most trusted aides about why the Founders would explicitly allow Congress to bar an impeached official from future office yet reserve that power only for current officials. While Trump loyalists had seized on the suggestion that a former president simply could not be impeached and convicted, McConnell was not so sure. RAND PAUL would force a vote on the constitutionality of convicting a former president - short-circuiting McConnell’s own deliberations. And they were about to put him in a bind.” “To his chagrin, a large chunk of his members were once again coalescing around the former president. “But while McConnell was ready to be done with Trump, his party, it seemed, was not,” Rachael and Karoun write. McConnell relished the opportunity to slam the door shut on the controversial former president’s political career, and inside his Capitol office suite, he intensively debated the question with his own staff. 6 Capitol insurrection - and even got sandbagged by his own members into making a decision on the issue before he was ready. It explores how the longtime Republican leader came much closer than originally reported to backing Trump’s conviction after the Jan. That’s the lede of a buzzy new excerpt in The Washington Post from “Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump” ( $35 ) by Playbook’s own Rachael Bade and Post national security reporter Karoun Demirjian.
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26, 2021, agonizing over how to cast what he knew would be one of the most pivotal votes of his career.” “ MITCH McCONNELL sat in his office on Tuesday, Jan. | Samuel Corum/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAY Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to the Senate floor on Jan.
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