Missouri newspaper hammers Hawley and Blunt: 'Embarrassment to the state'
By Zack Budryk - 02/11/21 02:33 PM EST
he St. Louis Post-Dispatch blasted GOP Missouri Sens. Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley Thursday over their handling of former President Trump’s impeachment trial, calling it an “embarrassment to the state.â€
In an editorial, the Post-Dispatch lambasted the two for voting against allowing the trial to take place and Hawley specifically for what it said was his evasion of responsibility for challenging the results of the presidential election in key states.
Hawley was one of the lawmakers who followed through on Trump's call to challenge the certification of the Electoral College vote in states that he lost to now-President Biden, even after a mob of angry Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 in an effort to stop the count.
Trump's second impeachment trial accuses him of inciting the violence.
"Blunt had the gall to tell reporters that, until a 13-minute video of the Capitol attack was shown to senators on Tuesday, he had never taken so much time to watch what occurred on that 'truly a horrendous day,'" the Thursday editorial says.
more
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/538470-missouri-newspaper-hammers-hawley-and-blunt-embarrassment-to-the-state
