Pelosi called McConnell ‘pathetic’ after he said he wouldn’t vote to convict Trump for inciting Capitol riot

• Nancy Pelosi accused Mitch McConnell of using delay tactics to postpone Trump’s impeachment trial.
• Pelosi said McConnell then used his own delay tactics as an excuse to vote for Trump’s acquittal.
• “It is so pathetic that Senator McConnell kept the Senate shut down so that the Senate could not receive the Article of Impeachment,” she said.
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• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell “pathetic” after he chose not to convict former President Donald Trump in the impeachment trial.
• McConnell on Saturday said he would vote to acquit Trump on a charge of “incitement of insurrection” of the Capitol riot on January 6 because the former president is no longer in office.
• “While a close call, I am persuaded that impeachments are a tool primarily of removal and we therefore lack jurisdiction,” McConnell said in a letter to GOP members.
• “The Constitution makes it perfectly clear that Presidential criminal misconduct while in office can be prosecuted after the President has left office,” he continued, “which in my view alleviates the otherwise troubling ‘January exception’ argument raised by the House.”
• Pelosi in a press release the same day said McConnell employed delay tactics to ensure that Trump’s second impeachment trial occurred after he left office. Then McConnell attributed his vote to not convict Trump to the fact that the trial occurred while the former president no longer served in office, she said.
• “On January 15, the House Impeachment Managers were gathered to deliver the Article of Impeachment. They were told that because the Senate was closed the Article could not be received,” she said in the release.
• “It is so pathetic that Senator McConnell kept the Senate shut down so that the Senate could not receive the Article of Impeachment and has used that as his excuse for not voting to convict Donald Trump,” Pelosi continued.
• The House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump a second time in January, just days after the January 6 riot during which insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building. House members impeached him on an “incitement of insurrection” charge.
• Ten Republican House members were among those who voted to impeach Trump.
• On Saturday, the Senate voted to acquit Trump. All 50 Democrats and 7 Republicans voted to convict Trump, while 43 Republicans voted to acquit.
• “I salute the Republican Senators who voted their conscience and for our Country,” Pelosi said in the release. “Other Senate Republicans’ refusal to hold Trump accountable for igniting a violent insurrection to cling to power will go down as one of the darkest days and most dishonorable acts in our nation’s history.”
• The Senate can only convict if it reaches a two-thirds majority decision to do so.

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 07: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and fellow Democratic members of the House hold a news conference to call on Republicans to fund programs to combat the spread of the Zika virus at the U.S. Capitol September 7, 2016 in Washington, DC. Congress returned yesterday from a seven-week break during which time the Florida Department of Health confirmed the first local cases of Zika on July 29. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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