{"id":48698,"date":"2021-01-19T14:46:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=48698"},"modified":"2021-01-19T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:48:10","slug":"manchurian-candidate-mitch-mcconnell-comes-completely-out-of-his-communist-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=48698","title":{"rendered":"Manchurian Candidate Mitch McConnell Comes Completely Out of His Communist Closet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>McConnell Sparks GOP-Split Talk, Claims &#8220;Mob Was Fed Lies&#8230;Provoked By Trump&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>As impeachment moves to the Senate, and on Trump&#8217;s penultimate day as president, (still) Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may have just\u00a0<strong>showed his truest colors yet<\/strong>\u00a0as he addressed the floor&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1351578906885840898&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fmcconnell-sparks-gop-split-talk-claims-mob-was-fed-liesprovoked-trump&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1351578906885840898\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;claiming that\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-01-19.jpg?itok=jA0rvw0P\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-01-19.jpg?itok=jA0rvw0P\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-01-19.jpg?itok=jA0rvw0P\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"6f12ee5f-c1d3-4b7d-b853-5ba43c44ed29\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This, according to Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, is a major problem for the GOP who told Fox News\u2019 Ingraham Angle on Friday that he believes that<strong><em>\u00a0if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans join the Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump, a third of Republican voters will permanently abandon the party as a result.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xroBI23G_eA\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/planetfreewill.news\/rand-paul-if-mitch-mcconnell-impeaches-trump-one-third-of-republicans-will-leave-the-party\/\">PlanetFreeWill.news&#8217; Tom Papper notes\u00a0<\/a>that, speaking first about the Democrats\u2019 aims for impeachment, Paul expressed incredulity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t understand how they can be moving forward with this,\u201d he said, before adding<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing they\u2019re doing now is an overreaction, and if they think they\u2019re going to have a positive feeling from the public, when they\u2019re going to go through a partisan impeachment again,<strong>\u00a0I think that\u2019s absolutely insane and wrong headed<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ingraham then asked Paul if he was surprised that McConnell is reportedly planning to instruct Republicans to vote to convict President Trump after he leaves the presidency, in a move that could strip him of his security and prevent him from running for office in 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t often get asked my advice from leadership on how they should react, but my unsolicited suggestion would be this: They will destroy the Republican Party if leadership is complicit in impeachment, or if leadership votes for impeachment, they will destroy the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImpeachment is purely a partisan thing, it\u2019s for the moral, \u2018Oh I\u2019m so much better than you, and you\u2019re a bad person, because I\u2019m so moral.\u2019\u201d Paul added, \u201cThese are the kind of people that are going to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe impeachment is a wrongheaded, partisan notion. If Republicans go along with it, it will destroy the party. A third of Republicans will leave the party.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t about, anymore, the electoral college,\u201d Paul concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s about the future of the party, and if you\u2019re going to ostracize and excommunicate President Trump from the party, then guess what, millions of his fans will leave as well.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/1611075247467.jpg?itok=fXgutIYP\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/1611075247467.jpg?itok=fXgutIYP\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/1611075247467.jpg?itok=fXgutIYP\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"f18c9f5f-22fa-4742-958a-41344c04b6af\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_align__N0_fw Advert_placement__1I4yb\"><\/div>\n<p>Additionally, congressional leaders, including\u00a0<strong>House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will skip President Trump&#8217;s departure ceremony in Maryland tomorrow morning<\/strong>\u00a0in favor of attending mass with incoming President Joe Biden ahead of his inauguration,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/republican-leaders-biden-church-skip-trump-departure-75c20557-3968-4815-8f0c-e6d1ff46704e.html\">congressional sources familiar with their plans tell Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/mcconnell-sparks-gop-split-talk-claims-mob-was-fed-liesprovoked-trump\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/mcconnell-sparks-gop-split-talk-claims-mob-was-fed-liesprovoked-trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McConnell Sparks GOP-Split Talk, Claims &#8220;Mob Was Fed Lies&#8230;Provoked By Trump&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}