McConnell defends acquittal in WSJ op-ed but blasts Trump's 'unhinged falsehoods'

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McConnell defends acquittal in WSJ op-ed but blasts Trump's 'unhinged falsehoods'
By Brooke Seipel - 02/15/21 08:08 PM EST

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Monday defended the Senate's decision to acquit former President Trump but clarified that it, "vindicated the Constitution, not Trump."

In his op-ed, McConnell echoed sentiments he shared after the Senate acquittal on Saturday, when he said Trump is "morally responsible" for the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6 and that he was "outraged" by Trump's actions.

"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "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."


But McConnell went on in the piece to argue that convicting Trump was not protected by the Constitution because he is a former official. McConnell added, however, that he respects the decision of the six Republicans who voted to convict and their interpretation of the Constitution.

"I respect senators who reached the opposite answer. What deserve no respect are claims that constitutional concerns are trivialities that courageous senators would have ignored," he wrote.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/538925-mcconnell-defends-acquittal-in-wsj-op-ed-but-blasts-trumps-unhinged

[skeeter]

McDonnell is either stupid or he’s lying. I vote the latter.

Anyone who has had a half-open mind about the election knows much about it stunk on ice, and it’s more than likely Trump actually won. Nothing unhinged about it.

[libertybele]

McDonnell is either stupid or he’s lying. I vote the latter.

Anyone who has had a half-open mind about the election knows much about it stunk on ice, and it’s more than likely Trump actually won. Nothing unhinged about it.

Whatever you do, don't give the man a shovel, let him continue to bury himself.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Follow the money trail .... and the CCP.

China trying to build soft power, but its voice outside is brittle and wooden
The Print, Oct 16, 2020

James Si-Cheg Chao was an ambitious and enterprising young man who left his temporary home in Taiwan in 1958 to seek his fortune in the United States. He had studied at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University along with the future mayor of Shanghai and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Jiang Zemin – who, incidentally, went on to become the president of China between 1993 and 2003. James Chao kept in touch with Jiang after he left China and the two would meet frequently. After Chao formed his Foremost Group, which dealt with shipping, among other things, in 1964, he ordered two ships to be built in Shanghai when Jiang was mayor of the city.

James Chao became an all-American philanthrope and, therefore, an eminently acceptable Chinese American. Soon the Foremost group was chartering its ships to Chinese giants like Cosco and Sino-Trans. Elaine Chao, James Chao’s oldest daughter, married Senator Mitch McConnell in February 1993, who is currently the US Senate majority leader. Shortly after their marriage, McConnell and Elaine called on Jiang Zemin in Beijing, accompanied by James Chao. Elaine went on to become George W. Bush’s labour secretary and is now President Donald Trump’s transport secretary.

In 2008, the couple received a sum between US$ 5 to 25 million from James Chao, according to a New York Times report dated 16 September 2019. It also disclosed that the Foremost Group had received hundreds of millions of dollars as loans from a Chinese government bank to help build ships that the company purchased from government-owned shipyards in China. As transport secretary, it was alleged that Elaine enabled her family’s shipping company to transport raw materials from US and Canada to China.

The plot thickens. Soon after Donald Trump was elected president, Elaine’s younger sister, Angela, who was CEO of Foremost Group, was appointed to the board of directors at the Bank of China. This was Angela’s second major assignment in China. Along with her father, she was also a member of the board of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, the country’s largest defence contractor. No one apparently even raised an eyebrow in the US that the Senate majority leader’s sister-in-law was on the board of a major business rival of the country, not to mention the fact that she was also a board member of China’s national bank. This naturally provided superb access to the Chinese and the CCP for its influence operations (Robert Spalding, Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept).

There are other stories too – of how Robert Hunter Biden, the son of the former vice president, Joe Biden, travelled with his father on Air Force Two to China in December 2013, where he struck a private deal to establish a US$ 1 billion investment fund with a company called Bohai Harvest RST, which had the support of the Chinese government. The Chinese in effect gave the American vice president’s son a ‘gift’ of US$ 1 billion dollars. It is impossible to assume that Biden would see anything remotely evil about China. Considering that Biden is currently ahead of Trump in the run-up to the forthcoming elections, should he win the presidency, the US-China relationship could alter.

https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/china-trying-to-build-soft-power-but-its-voice-outside-is-brittle-and-wooden/524673/

The Foremost Group is a privately held, family-run shipping company based in New York City, with subsidiaries registered in the Marshall Islands. It operates globally, chartering vessels to companies in the dry bulk shipping industry, and its fleet includes some of the world's largest "capesize" bulk carriers, with a focus on environmentally friendly operations. Its clients include Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus. It was founded in 1964 by Chinese-American immigrant James Si-Cheng Chao and his wife Ruth Mulan Chu Chao. Its chair and CEO since 2008 is Angela Chao, the sixth daughter of the company's founders.

Foremost has had most of its ships built by China State Shipbuilding, some of them financed by loans from the state-owned Export-Import Bank of China. In 2015 it began construction of the first freighter jointly financed by banks in both the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. Its ships are registered under the flags of Liberia and Hong Kong. Iron ore is one of its principal cargoes. 72 percent of its freight is shipped to China, with its ships operating primarily in the region of Korea to Australia, but also world-wide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foremost_Group

GLOBAL SHIPPING BUSINESS TIED TO MITCH MCCONNELL, SECRETARY ELAINE CHAO SHROUDED IN OFFSHORE TAX HAVEN
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/05/mitch-mcconnell-elaine-chao-offshore-paradise-papers/