Senate Republican leader McConnell calls Jan. 6 actions a ‘violent insurrection’….

Thus putting himself squarely AGAINST Donald Trump & Co…..

Things gonna get interesting…..

It appears that the US Congress’s Upper chamber Senators  are NOT going along with their lower chamber US House members in embracing the the Trump views of a assault on their offices  that made them hide for their safety , all to try to stop the Congress from ratifying President Biden’s win over Trump….

The House Select Committee investigation of the actions have pitted Republicans supporting Trump, no matter what, against other party members….

In the latest round two house members where censured for support and work in the committee ….

The actions seems to have backfired with some Republican Senators who think the action was misguided and plain wrong ….

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is criticizing the Republican National Committee for censuring two House GOP lawmakers investigating the “violent insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, saying it’s not the party’s job to police the views of lawmakers.

As former President Donald Trump has downplayed the attack by his supporters last year — the worst attack against the Capitol in two centuries — the RNC last week took a voice vote to approve censuring Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois at the party’s winter meeting in Salt Lake City. The two Republicans sit on a Democrat-led House committee that is aggressively investigating the siege and has subpoenaed many in the former president’s inner circle….

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“It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next,” McConnell said Tuesday. He said he still has confidence in RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, but “the issue is whether or not the RNC should be sort of singling out members of our party who may have different views than the majority. That’s not the job of the RNC.”

The dispute is the latest tug of war within the party over issues that McConnell and others see as politically beneficial and would prefer to talk about in an election year – inflation, for example — versus the discourse over the insurrection and Trump’s election lies….

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Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said Monday that the RNC has said it wants the party to be unified, “and that was not a unifying action.” Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby said he believes the GOP should be a “big tent.” Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Mitt Romney of Utah both contacted McDaniel to discuss the censure.

Romney, who is McDaniel’s uncle, told reporters that it “could not have been a more inappropriate” message from the party…..

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The censure was approved last week after an RNC subcommittee watered down a resolution that had recommended expelling the pair from the party. McDaniel denied that the “legitimate political discourse” wording in the censure resolution was referring to the violent attack on the Capitol and said it had to do with other actions taken by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. But the resolution drew no such distinction.

Cheney said Monday that she had been receiving a “tremendous amount of support” in the wake of the censure vote. “I think every American who watched the video of that attack and who watched that attack unfold knows that it was really shameful to suggest that that what happened that day might be legitimate political discourse,” she said.

McConnell has maintained his strong criticism of Trump over the insurrection, though he voted to acquit the former president after the House voted to impeach him one week after the attack…..

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Note…. 

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell NEVER really got along….

Ole’ Mitch didn’t aways do what the Big Guy wanted…..

They REALLY don’t now….

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