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🗓️ 17 February 2021
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0:00.0 | I don't know how many of you heard Mitch McConnell's speech immediately after Senate Republicans, |
0:09.6 | Glitting himself, voted to acquit former President Trump. |
0:13.4 | It was quite a speech in which he really took the former president to task, |
0:17.8 | and they played some excerpts from it on the cable news and Sunday shows, |
0:22.5 | but I think it's worth listening to the whole speech to get the full power of it, |
0:28.0 | and I'm going to give you the opportunity right now. |
0:30.8 | We hear everything that Minority Leader McConnell said on Saturday after that historic book. |
0:44.3 | January 6th was a disgrace. |
0:48.3 | American citizens attacked this Capitol, armed with everything from hockey sticks to flag bowls |
0:53.3 | to Louisville Sluggers from my home state of Kentucky. |
0:57.1 | With the goal of hunting down the Speaker of the House, putting a bullet in her head |
1:02.5 | and stringing up the vice president of the United States. |
1:07.2 | They did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by President Trump, Ted Cruz, |
1:15.1 | Alcoran Johnson, Josh Hawley, and Lindsey Graham. |
1:19.5 | People have absolutely no control over at all. |
1:23.1 | And a number of freshmen senators, none of whom I've ever met personally. The attackers were carrying |
1:31.6 | out, they believed the President's wishes. They would not have stopped upon blowing the Speaker Pelosi's |
1:39.3 | brains out and lynching black pants on their crude homemade gallows, |
1:46.8 | watching his legs twitch violently |
1:48.5 | till the life drained out over his body. |
1:53.4 | Now make no mistake. |
1:55.6 | This mob comprised a sizable part of our party's base. |
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