acquitted but condemned by Senator McConnell. Was that the right result? Certainly the acquittal

was the right result. We'll talk about whether McConnell did the right thing by explaining

why he voted for acquittal despite his condemnation of President Trump's actions on the

der show. Today on President's Day we celebrate the great legacies of our first president, George

Washington, and perhaps our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, who preserved the union and died as a

result. Today we also celebrate our Constitution because over the weekend the Constitution won a victory.

It was a close victory. It won not by a majority vote but by the lack of a two-thirds vote,

but it was still a victory for the Constitution for the First Amendment, for the provisions of

the Constitution that prohibit a person who is out of office from being impeached and tried. Yes,

it was a victory, a modest victory for the Constitution itself. As far as Donald Trump is concerned,

it was a mixed result. He was acquitted, acquitted with 43 votes in his favor, 57 votes against him.

But the minority leader, formerly the majority leader of the United States Senate, Mitch McConnell,

went out of his way to condemn the actions of then President Trump, essentially condemning

what he did from the day of the election till the day of the inauguration, according to McConnell,

a false account of the election claiming it was stolen and fraudulent and that he,

Donald Trump, was the legitimate president. McConnell would have none of that.

Although he voted for an acquittal, he took the opportunity to really attack

Donald Trump and Donald Trump did not come away from that attack, unscathed. A lot of Americans

agreed with the substance of what McConnell said. I also thought McConnell performed a very important

civic function. I think he really gave us a civics lesson. He explained to the American public

that you can condemn the actions of a president, as he did, particularly his speech of January 6th

and the resulting attack on the Capitol, as well as speeches that he made before that,

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