Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump finally tell the truth – at least about one another – Milford Daily News
Glenn Ickler| Guest Columnist
Its the most amazin thing Ive seen in the last four years, my Uncle Fud said, as we sat eating Aunt Duds fresh-baked cinnamon rolls in their kitchen at Chigger Mountain Farm.
What is so amazing? I asked, after licking a dab of frosting off my upper lip.
Sen. Mitch McConnell and the twice-impeached former president both made statements that were true, Uncle Fud said.
Are you sure? That is a very rare act for McConnell and a total no-no for the twice-impeached former president, I said.
It was in all the papers. And what makes it even better is that they both told the truth on the same day. Whats more, it was about each other, he said.
I did read that, I said. McConnell, who has been the Chief Traitors biggest lickspittle and enabler for four years, wrote a column for the New York Times after the latest impeachment trial, and he said: There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the worlds largest megaphone. His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended.
Right, said Uncle Fud. But then, of course, he took the cowards way out and voted to acquit the man he said was morally responsible, usin the excuse that he thought the impeachment of a president already out of office was unconstitutional.
Which isnt at all amazing, said Aunt Dud.
It certainly isnt, I said. McConnell has been supporting the Chief Traitors unhinged falsehoods ever since the first set of lies he told at his inaugural in 2017.
But the twice-impeached former president fired right back at the man whod been his genuflecting right-hand man in the Senate, Uncle Fud said. He wrote: Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again. He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country.
An absolutely perfect description of Mitch McConnell, written by a man who benefited from the spineless obeisance of that dour political hack for four years, I said. I cant believe this. For the first time ever, I am in agreement with both McConnell and the Chief Traitor.
No two despicable political scalawags have ever spoken about each other in more accurate terms, Aunt Dud said. I didnt think either of them had it in him to be so truthful.
Of course, the twice-impeached former president went right to lyin in the rest of his statement, Uncle Fud said. He said he will be supportin candidates who are brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate. He wouldnt recognize one of those if it bit him in the butt.
All those traits were completely absent in his administration, Aunt Dud said. And he might be coming back to run in 2024.
The vote for acquittal by 43 senators caused conservative columnist George F. Will, a former Republican, to wonder if the Republicans will allow their louts to rule the party, I said. He listed the members of the partys Large Lout Caucus as Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), Ted Cruz (Tex.), Josh Hawley (Mo.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), and Ron Johnson (Wis.).
Ooh, what a creepy lineup that is, Uncle Fud said. Theyre all lookin for the votes of the seditionists, white-supremacists, neo-Nazis, Confederate flag wavers, thick-skulled thugs, petty thieves, misbegotten muttonheads and savage police beaters that smashed their way into the Capitol, murdered a policeman and threatened the lives of everyone in the building on Jan. 6.
The louts who have presidential ambitions Cruz, Hawley and Rubio will regret their votes to acquit the Chief Traitor if he runs for the Republican nomination in 2024, I said. In a Morning Consult poll, 54 percent of Republican voters said they would support him.
Its time for Congress to invoke Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, Aunt Dud said. Section 3 bars from public office those officials who engage in insurrection or rebellion against the United States. The evidence shown at the impeachment trial made it crystal clear that the former president violated his oath of office and sparked an insurrection.
If James Madison was alive, Ill bet hed wish that hed made weaseling out of a conviction vote more difficult when he wrote the Constitutions impeachment clause, I said.
And if President Abraham Lincoln was alive, Ill bet hed have resigned from the Republican Party and started a new one with the few respectable Republicans that are left, said Uncle Fud. Seein a Confederate flag inside the Capitol would have made him explode.
Imagine what would happen if the Chief Traitor died and encountered President Lincoln in the afterworld, I said.
Impossible, said my Aunt Dud. You have to have had a soul to go where Lincoln is spending eternity. You have to have shown at least a crumb of concern for somebody besides yourself. Theres no way that the twice-impeached former president will ever get anywhere near the eternal resting place of Abraham Lincoln.
Glenn Icklerof Hopedale is a retired newspaper editor.
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