KY County leadership censures McConnell for betraying Donald Trump
The Nelson County Republican Party’s leadership censured Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell Tuesday evening, KY Standard reports.
Eleven members of the executive committee censured McConnell shortly after he claimed President Donald Trump provoked a violent mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th.
The censure accused McConnell of “implying (Trump) and his administration lied about the election,” and that “McConnell has abandoned his Republican base that put him in office.”
The censure resolution “demands (McConnell) retract his statements impugning the honor of President Donald J. Trump.”
“The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president…” McConnell had said.
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
In this Jan. 6 photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks from the Senate floor to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. McConnell said on the Senate Floor Tuesday that the president provoked the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6. Those statements drew a rebuke from the leadership of the Nelson County Republican Party Tuesday evening.
A draft of the censure approved by the Nelson County Republican Party leadership Tuesday. The unanimous vote of the 11 members of the executive committee came about six hours after McConnell took to the U.S. Senate floor and said President Donald Trump provoked a violent mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.